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Prehispanic Archeology
... for ceremonies to honor the wind God Ehecatl. One such ceremony was called the Volador ceremony, where a priest climbed a pole placed atop the structure and would perform a ritual simulating the flight of a bird. Los Guachimontones have many of these circular stepped pyramids in the middle of circular building complexes. One of the larger ones is the 60-foot tall pyramid at Circle 2 which has 13 high steps leading to ...
San Andres Festival
The San Andres Festival(Saint Andrew to us) ended it's nine days of celebrating on November 30th. We were there almost every night and I took photos and videos and here are a few not in any order that I thought you might enjoy seeing. It was quite the event. Every day of the festival ...
Filarmónica de Jalisco
Guadalajara's Degollado Concert Hall, a copy of Milan's famous La Scala was our destination on Sunday for the Filarmónica de Jalisco concerto. The beautiful concert hall built in 1866 with 5 stories of balconies under a dome painted with a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy and perfect acoustics was ...
Carnaval 2012 in Ajijic
... with a madcap, Mexican flavour.
On Fat Tuesday, an event called the "Toro de Once" parade, begins. This is our favourite activity during carnaval. It starts with very excited, young boys running down the street being chased by costumed "Sayacos", teenage boys and men dressed up as masked females and males.
Bands playing music similar to variations on the Mexican Hat dance follow. Clarinets, ...
Day Trip to the Guadalajara Zoo
... Bengal Tiger and Komodo Dragon.
We loved entering the monkey house. Monkeys are always fun to watch and these guys were well- behaved - no grabbing or stealing of belongings. Just, at times, some gentle touching.
Before we ate lunch, we used our first ticket to go on a great Safari Masai Mara ride through an simulated African savannah. The animals run free and we were taken on a bumpy dusty ride ...