As Semana Santa approaches we are both hearing and reading all about this time in Ayacucho.
There are local festivals and seasonal things to do taking place virtually every week in Ayacucho. Everybody based in this part of Peru, including tourists, will find plenty to enjoy, whatever the time of the year. However, for those who are in Ayacucho during Easter, the Holy Week celebrations of Semana Santa will be hard to miss.
Semana Santa is one of the biggest of all the festivals staged in Ayacucho and many religious events and celebrations take place in the city's churches. Holy Week events commence on the Friday before Palm Sunday and lasts some ten days, leading up to Easter Sunday, with daily processions.
Apart from all the religious ceremonies and processions there are also art exhibitions, traditional Peruvian folk dancing, music concerts, agricultural fairs, traditional feasting, bonfires, open-air street markets, parades of horses and donkeys, bull running, and apparently much more.
Both Marion and I are really looking forward to this time of the year even though it is getting very close to our departure date from all our new friends in Ayacucho.
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