There is a national holiday in Costa Rica called La Romería - it's a pilgrimage to la Basílica de Los Angeles in Cartago, and people from the farthest ends of the country walk, some barefoot, to see the Vírgen de los Angeles. I went with a group of volunteers and had an awesome time eating delicious street food and stopping for drinks along the way, but aside from that it was a really humbling experience. The church itself was super beautiful, and people get on their knees to go pray at the altar. We walked 16 miles from San José to get there, but I'm a lot less sore than I would've expected! I guess my jogs up the giant hill in Concepción are doing me some good...
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| Crawling to the altar... |
Inside the gold altar is "la Negrita", which is what makes this holiday so important. If I understood better, I'd explain here, but I don't. So here's a link to Wikipedia if you're interested!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeria
I'm not feeling particularly "writerly" today, so I'll keep this entry short. Bye!
omg what a good workout now you can eat lots of tacos (is that being insensitive?)
ReplyDeleteHahah tacos here are weird. And are not really tacos. Ticos don't really eat tacos. But you can find "tacos" in bars, and they are really just deep-fried tortilla tubes stuffed with fried cheese or meat. I guess that's a taquito or something? Now I'm hungry.........
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