here, there, everywhere

When this is the promotional poster for a festival, you know it's going to be awesome.

A few photos from yesterday's Festival Del Lechon, or roast suckling pig festival. Awamaki chartered a van out to the town of Huarocando, where the entire Plaza de Armas was filled with makeshift kitchens serving identical piglets and sweet tamales. 

This is the lady we bought pig from. I'm not much of a pork eater, but it was pretty good. Not recommended if you can't handle your food looking at you with its teeth bared. 

Even were it not for the pork, it was nice to walk around the pretty town...

... check out the communal ovens, where people were roasting their piglets... 

... ask this nice lady with her awesome red flower if I could take her photo (she seemed surprised but happy enough to oblige)...

So that was Pig Day! Today is the Day of the Dead, where people eat and get drunk in the cemetery, and that winds up the last week of festivities. Photos of the remaining festivities from the weekend to follow, hopefully!