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Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria
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Party of the Candelaria Virgin
- Peru
by
Jose Luis Serruto
1 February
I am Jose Luis Serruto J. but just call me "Pepe", a computer teacher
in a private school called "Peruano Británico" in Lima-Peru.
We just had Carnival during the first week of February in Puno called
"Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria" (Party of the Candelaria
Virgin ) this is the most important Carnival party in Peru because
Puno is considered "the folk Capital of America" (Capital folclórica
de América) because it has over 200 diferents kinds of dances and
customs.
During this week all the neighborhoods and regions of Puno include
Bolivia dance with their typical clothes in every street as you can
get, each two blocks you can get a lot of beer, the most of the cases
free because some "father in low" are in charge of prepare the drink
and the food. The familys prepare typical foods and you can taste it
the most of the times are delicious.
There is a special day when the principal groups dance into a stadium
this is a lovely and amazing moment.
The dancer's custom dresses have a religious and magic motive and the
most famous thing are the demon masks.
Puno is a city located over 4000 meters over the sea level on the
shore of Titicaca Lake (the Highest lake in the world) on the South
east of Peru, the weather the most part of the year is terrible but when
is Carnival time Puno is very crowded, and funny a lot of tourist
of diferentes parts of the world came to Puno to enjoy this party,
and specially to enjoy the people because we are a warm and
friendly country.
For more information about it, you can explore this address :
http://www.rcp.net.pe
then select : PERU HOME PAGE
after that : FIESTA DE LA VIRGEN DE LA CANDELARIA
I hope this could help.
From Peru
by
Jose Luis Serruto
- Adult
Email: fas@csl.pj.gob.pe
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