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"La Virgen De La Calendaria" festival (PERU)

Beautiful Peru has so much to offer us, especially when it comes to Peruvian religious celebrations full of music and folklore. One of the most important religious carnivals takes place in Puno in the shores of Lake Titicaca, between the 1st and 14th of February.

We wanted to spend at least a day in Puno to watch this glamorous celebration done in honor of the Holy Virgin of La Candelaria. We were very lucky to coincide with the stage of the festival where the people begin to descent on the of Puno and on the shores of Titicaca to greet the virgin forming a great parade.

However, it was not that easy to participate in such a culturally strong festivity as foreigners without making an effort to fit in. And we did so……….. We dressed up with the traditional dresses and masks. First we went to a mask-shop, where they formed a custom- made mask just right for our face. Afterwards we visited a garment shop where we bought one of those very colorful dresses worn in the event. What we learnt from the owner of the shop, was that men wore bicorn hats or hats with multicolored feathers (like ours) with white or black woolen pants and sashes around their wastes. Women, on the other hand, wore black dresses with red sweaters shawls and sashes.

And…. The parade starts, with an enthusiastic and colourful crowd with dancers performing ancient dances, examples of traditional Peruvian folkloric music, people rejoicing with beers and panflutes around these. We learnt that the Carnival of the Virgin of Candelaria was a great opportunity for the Departmental Folk Competition of Indigenous Dancers to show their talents.

This is such a popular carnival in Peru that beer companies race with each other to become sponsors to this event.

We wore our feathered hat and mask, we drank lots of beer, we even played the panflute, and we enjoyed one of the most colorful festivities of the world with one of the most enthusiastic and rejoicing crowd.

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