Party in Mexico: Festivals A-Z International Living Postcards--your daily escape Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Dear International Living Reader, Mexicans love to party. Fireworks, loud music, flowers, colorful decorations, and food, glorious food. (If you travel to Mexico during an especially well-celebrated holiday, be sure to make your hotel reservations well in advance.) Our favorite festivals in Mexico include: * Día de los Locos (Day of the Crazies), a parade held to celebrate spring where participants dress up in an amazing assortment of wild outfits made from old clothes, cardboard boxes, bailing wire, Styrofoam, fabric, papier-mâché, masking tape, and whatever else comes to hand. Cartoon and children's characters like Barney, Power Rangers, and Sponge Bob are well represented, along with outlandish caricatures of campesinos, foreigners, and town celebrities. * Pamplonada, the Mexican version of the running of the bulls in Spain's Pamplona. This festival is one of Mexico's most outrageous spectacles…rivaling Spring Break on the U.S. coasts, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans. * Festival Cervantino (Cervantes Festival), Latin America's version of the Edinburgh Arts Festival, with every stage, plaza, street corner, and public building in Guanajuato filled with workshops, orchestral performances, classic theater and modern plays, art exhibits, ballet and ethnic dancing, poetry readings, and performers from around the world. Wherever and whenever you are in Mexico, you will not be far from a celebration or fiesta of some sort. Therefore, please accept, with our compliments, Party in Mexico: Festivals A-Z, as a way to keep your Fiesta Diary up to date. In this free report, we include a list of "official" Mexican holidays (including the ones I mentioned above), but every city, town, and village also has its own holidays--founder's days…patron saint's days…battle commemorations… There's a lot to enjoy. Eimear O'Driscoll
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