Cafayate Corso - Carneval

It was full on party week last week in Cafayate, Salta. Not only was there a corso along calle Rioja three nights running but there was the Serenata - a week long folk music festival - the most important in the North.

 

The street was packed with people and parillas and kids running around spraying espuma into your face. They have an unpleasant habit of blasting it straight in the eye.

 

It was amazingly well-organised for such a small city and some of the costumes and dancing displayed a huge amount of work.

 

After seeing corsos inside big buildings like the sambadromo, in Rio, designed for the purpose, it was fun to be part of the community on the street in Cafayate.