Festival Cervantino

Trip Start Jan 25, 2007
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Trip End Jan 25, 2008


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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Guanajuato has to be one of the prettiest towns you will ever see. Set in a valley in the middle of some mountains, it's full of narrow winding streets that go up and down hills and has a network of tunnels running under it. Apart from being a university town it happened to be the beginning of the annual international Cervantino festival after Cervantes the famous Spanish writer (who wrote Don Quiote) so it was the start of a big party. This meant lots of free concerts in the main square along with lots of plays and suchlike.
The first night there, there was a concert by a Senegalese band that was so good they managed to blow all the power in the town at least five times causing complete blackouts. Apparently this happens wvery year as the amount of power used at the festival is far above what the local electricity grid can supply.
At the concert with me was Jean, one of the guys I met in Guadalajara, some crzazy Japanese guy who's name we couldn't remeber so we called 'El Japonese Loco' and a couple of other French guys. Mostly the visitors to the town were Mexican and as in Guadalajara it was very easy to get talking to them, they really are a friendly bunch of people.
The next few days were spent chilling out by day and attending the festival by night. Some of the other free acts were a bit ropey with Mexico's equivalent of Celine Dione and some kind of musical conceptual artist from the states but all the bars were buzzing anyway so that didn't really matter.
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