all new to us are the many processions and small fiestas that are celebrated around the Christmas season. So we were able to attend a posada, follow where Joseph and Mary in the form of Nativity the houses and looking for an overnight stay possible. (Analogous to the biblical Gospels) If they have found a place to stay - usually at the house of a family is a short sermon on the history of the Immaculate Conception and the search of the house held. is then safe for the children the main thing: Blindfolded, they try alternately, one filled with sweets Pinada open violently by slashing, but dangling from a rope and one person even to the top, moving left and right. Sun upfront not only very funny but also dangerous situations when children blindly towards your audience Caning distribute ... and when the Pinada was destroyed and all ages who want to catch on the ground scattered sweets, Europe should the battlefield
A model rely on Guatemalan game enthusiasm we learned after Posada know: We brought some young people the famous, Helvetic "chocolate game" at. We hooted with laughter when the people against each other pulled the cap from his head, and devoured the Toblerone, together with the aluminum foil, just to get one to enjoy a real chocolate. 
impressed by the wonderful landscape we were on Lake Atitlan, about which we Christmas visit. The lake is surrounded be accompanied by three extinct volcanoes, the slopes of small, idyllic villages. The resemblance to our Swiss lakes could take even a little wanderlust. The glassy sea with the fishermen in your Lanchas offered wonderful photo opportunities, which moved me to the bed already at a quarter to leave after five. The next day we took a boat round trip (on the roof) and visited several villages on the lake. Here people eat no fish two days, when someone dies in the lake because they believe the fish would eat the corpse. Understandably this belief every appetite in a fried trout spoils ...
On Christmas Eve we were finally back in Antigua. We were with the family (uncles, aunts, cousins, and by affinity Amigos) celebrate the evening. In our neighborhood, but there was still a parade, surrounded by grand-dangerous fireworks, loud concerts and a lot of people. A Torito has strapped on his back several fireworks, and runnin So by the crowd to cause a little panic and to provide the dresses with Brandloechern. A really fun tradition, if one would know him, and know that you really need ..:-)
run away Nevertheless, here also displayed next to all the noise and festivities a little contemplation space, but also for us in this "non-Catholics" comic or even baffling forms. Sun majority of the Mother of Jesus is venerated, seen the saving birth but only marginally.
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