This past Saturday, November 14, 2009 was the annual fiesta of Pica de Leña. It is a festival of woodcutting where people of Nicoya get together to chop wood, load up ox carts (some of them painted) with the wood, dance, sing, and have a parade of the oxcarts and dancing horses through town. We got to go out and be part of the festivities this weekend so I wanted to share some pictures from the day!
Welcome to Pica de Leña 2009!
Coconut milk straight from the coconut with a straw!! ...not the best tasting drink ever, but I figured I´d try it!
Chopping the wood!
When you have large crowds of people who start to consume certain beverages at 8:00am there will, of course, be some fights.
Two oxen were caught together and fell down. This was before freeing them.
some spectators lined up on a carreta!
Shaved Ice... freshly shaven from a huge block of ice!
First ox cart in the parade, with a banner of the virgin.
One of the many dancing horses!
Kayla, Jerry, Dianara and myself after the Pica de Leña parade!
Monday, November 16, 2009
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