since peru is a "modern country" many of the traditions have been lost in the coast, however coast isn't all Peru, most of the immingrants in Lima still preserve their highlands' traditions and some of them are popular here
probably you might know some of this customs, if you dont, luckily there are photos :)
this pic was taken in the shopping, is a big tree...
it was December 24th, Plaza Mayor de Lima. as you can see, there are many people waiting for the last stroke of the clock
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Santas' House is a tradition here, children waiting in long queues to see him. this place is full
well..i tooke those photos on the streets, departaments, houses, avenues...
This is the best photo for me. i was walking down the street when two little children came to me and the girl
asked me "can you hold my 'chispita mariposa' for a moment? i was like ... ok?
she wants to show her brother how to light his 'chispita mariposa' :D
Daniela and Junior
how was Christmas and holiday season in your country?
if you have doubts, you can ask me here
Okay, I'll try to describe what they look like Christmas for me.
ResponderEliminarIn my family, on December 24 we clean the house, then I put the Christmas tree in the room. Then we go to church to confession (if someone was not before) and go home to wait for Christmas Eve dinner. Of course, in this day we have fasting -quantitative and qualitative. In the evening (in my house about 18) we eat family dinner Christmas Eve, we break up the Christmas wafer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_wafer) and give wishes. After dinner, we hand each other gifts. Then we go to midnight mass, After midnight mass we meet different people at the church and we hand them the wishes (usually on this day is a lot of snow, so it is very festive ... although this year it was very warm and snow don't fell on 24 december ).
Then we go home and eat some more, then we go to sleep.
Morning, Dec. 25 if someone was not on the midnight mass, going to church. Then we meet the family for dinner-usually 25 December someone comes to us and we all go to Grandma on December 26th). It is of course a lot of Christmas carols, presents, Christmas trees and so on :)
We also have a lot of traditional Christmas food -but in every region of Poland are the other. For me, to dinner Christmas Eve we eat pea soup (others are eating borscht, sour soup, fish soup). Then there is the other food - usually a fish (in Poland all people eat carp) with potatoes, sauce and salad (again, I lack words, it is untranslatable). After dinner, we also have traditional food -but I do not know what to call it in English, so I searched on wikipedia: D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mak% C3% B3wki
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IVWkNxpTOKY/UrFzWb4l0dI/AAAAAAAAGAs/EUTqgw0zf88/s1600/IMG_2578.JPG
may look strange but it is delicious
We also have another traditional dish- but I do not like this ( I like all of the ingredients separately, but in the form of this dish I disliked it): it is called "Moczka" is untranslatable. It is a dish is prepared with a special kind of gingerbread, almonds, raisins, prunes, dried apricots, pears, dried figs, hazelnuts, a variety of other dried fruits. And a pair of components ... but I forgot what :)