Ballet Folklorico Monumental Bicentenario en Jocotepec
The show started yesterday at 4-5ish on the Jocotepec malecon featuring ballet folklorico troupes from 13 communities in the lakeshore region. The finale at 7 p.m. had 650 couples and a live mariachi playing and dancing the El Tranchete, Las Alazanzas, El Son de la Negra and the ever popular Jarabe Tapatio, better known to gringos as the Mexican hat dance.
Organized by Jalisco’s Ministry of Culture in conjunction with the
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Enanitos Toreros – Midget Bullfighters
The Villa Obregon Candelaria Festival Melaque, Jalisco – Mexico
There are at least five or six groups of Midget Bullfighters in Mexico. I’m not sure who the group was that visited Melaque except that there’s a foto of their poster below. Other groups have a much larger show but they may have been down-sized for our small town. This is really a family and kids party with
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La Huerta Jalisco Mexico
About a half hour up in the mountains on highway 80 from the coast and the town of Melaque on the Costalegre
Marcos and I drove up to La Huerta with the idea of exploring the country side. We’d heard of the Petroglyphs but had no idea where they were. Before marching off into the unknown we decided to check out downtown La Huerta and
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Cuzalapa Organic Coffee Cooperative
Cuautitlán – Jalisco – Mexico
Cuzalapa is the site of a very old shade grown coffee plantation that grows organic Arabica beans. Cuzalapa is a little over an hour from Melaque off highway 80 to the south-east of La Huerta on the northern edge of the Manantlan Biosphere Reserve.
The coffee is grown under the shade of a large variety of other trees and the women of the
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