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Sunday, September 07, 2008
Balls of fire!
I've never been to Nejapa before, I didn't know where to go, but on August 31st at 8 pm: Estela (from here), László (from Hungary) and Laura (from the UK and who arrived 3 days before the event) were already in my car.
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I took the car, didn't tell my parents where I was going so that they wouldn't be worried.
We got there. We met one of the organizers and we were amaze, exited and happy to be there.
We were lucky enough to meet with the Major of Nejapa, he explained the meaning of this tradition, he told us there as two versions:
The first version says that the devil was throwing balls of fire at Saint Jerome the Doctor while he was praying, this Saint is the patron of Nejapa.
The second versions states that Nejapa was originally situated in the slope of the volcano and when the volcano made its eruption, the villagers had to run and established the town in the location where it is right now.
Either of those versions is good enough depending on what you believe in =D
Here are some pictures
.All of a sudden, a ball of fire came bouncing directly to us and hit Laura!!! What are the odd of being attack by a ball of fire after 3 days of being in the country? Thank God she's fine, nothing actually happened to her. She says the ball rolled up her belly and then fell down again and nothing happened to her.
Another funny thing was that I was so exited to see a friend of mine that I haven't seen in a while, I was standing at at some sort of stage, to be able to see the show when I saw my friend, I jumped out of the stage and started walking and just when I was about to shout Monge!, I realized it wasn't him! jajaja thank God I realize it before I shout.
Labels: El Salvador, Tourism, Travel
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