Throwing Carnivals

Well, it was Carnival proper over the weekend, so on Saturday we went down to the Plaza de Armas and had coffee in one of the second storey balcony restaurants that overlook the square. It was quite the thing to watch - at first there were just hoardes of young people running around in packs dousing each other with water (clear and coloured), shaving foam, confetti, and chalk dust. Then the parade started, and the water-throwers turned their buckets and squirt guns toward the dancers and bands.

You can see a larger selection of the pictures we took here:
Arequipa Carnival

But here are a few to get you started:





Note all the little yellow taxis in this last picture. They are the ticos that we've been cautioned against using.