semana de la cerveza

everyone in south america gets easter week off. and in the town of paysandu, they celebrate easter by having a beer festival. what better way to celebrate easter, right? (although i'm confused as to why it's the week before easter ... because of lent and what-not, shouldn't it be the week after?)





really the best part about going to paysandu was all the live music and relaxing on the beach of rio uruguay.





people bring their mate to the beach. and at night while in the main festival area, they have the gourd in one hand and the beer in the other. i'm going to miss that. what a wonderful cultural identity thing.