Catholic Worshipers Dance Though the Streets of Lima for Hours Behind Statue of Virgin de la Puerta
4 thoughts on “PHOTO: Virgin de la Puerta Festival in Lima, Peru”
The photo you have taken here is amazing – love the slightly slow exposure and the blur effect on the people. Great photography – sooooo important on a travel blog. You could actually send this in to Wanderlust or Lonely Planet travel competitions it is so good.
Hi Mark: They’re wearing sackcloth clothes (made from burlap sacks), straw hats, and red bandanas, and their faces are painted in blackface. This is representative of the slaves that the *Virgen de la Puerta* is said to have freed. It was a spectacular procession, at the beginning of which the “slaves” danced backward in the street in front of the palanquin upon which the icon of the *Virgen* was carried.
Great photo! My daughter and I are heading to Lima in a month as part of a service learning opportunity through my graduate studies in social work. So excited and don’t know what to expect.
The photo you have taken here is amazing – love the slightly slow exposure and the blur effect on the people. Great photography – sooooo important on a travel blog. You could actually send this in to Wanderlust or Lonely Planet travel competitions it is so good.
Great photo. I wonder why they all wear red bandanas?
Hi Mark: They’re wearing sackcloth clothes (made from burlap sacks), straw hats, and red bandanas, and their faces are painted in blackface. This is representative of the slaves that the *Virgen de la Puerta* is said to have freed. It was a spectacular procession, at the beginning of which the “slaves” danced backward in the street in front of the palanquin upon which the icon of the *Virgen* was carried.
Great photo! My daughter and I are heading to Lima in a month as part of a service learning opportunity through my graduate studies in social work. So excited and don’t know what to expect.