Barranquilla Carnavale

elmodefoque says on Feb 2, 2006, 06:41:

If you wanna watch the parades Saturday, Sunday and Monday, in full comfort, you gotta buy a “pargo� or seat/bench with the wealthy barranquilleros. They charge around 70 bucks for the three days. One day is enough; anyway the carnaval is really all over the city. If you don’t wanna pay, then you take your ass down to Murillo, people with estrato 2 homes along that street rent out chairs for about 5 mil pesos or a couple bucks, they also sell beer. I gotta let you know, here in Murillo is not like up there where the middleclass live, you might end up in the middle of a big brawl, corronchos tend to get nasty and more obnoxious than usual when drunk.

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Miguel says on Feb 2, 2006, 10:21:

Also If you just want to buy a bleacher seat this year, the price has jumped to almost 5 usd day; it was front page news in EL HERALDO a couple of days ago. Like elmodofoque said, the damn Carnaval is all over the city. Last year I stumbled upon an estrato 2 family that sold me a seat in the recliner chair from their sala on the front lawn for 5 mil and was it three? four? o mas cuba libres?

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harocha says on Feb 3, 2006, 16:01:

Elmo is almost right! Things are just like he described them, however you have to buy a "PALCO" no a fish the name PArgo... any way, the PAlco is the best way to see the parade and enjoy it, but there are the comfortable hotels that have live music that charge a lot of money for you to get in as well, that is just if you are looking for high class events, or you can go to murillo o las nieves, rebolo or so to a CASETA de barrio to be like a sardin on a can to hear a bunch of people screaming in front of a vallenato band playing loud music.

Enjoy El Carnaval de Barranquilla.

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elmodefoque says on Feb 6, 2006, 11:41:

yeah harocha, you're correct, i mean "palco" you could tell i'm a corrocho. i gotta admit, the first time i went to a palco was last year, before that we always watch that shit from top of a burro powered cart way down in murillo, no freaking way we were gonna pay for no damn pargo. Now that i'm the big shot jijiji is parco and then fiesta at el prado.

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oldbongo says on Feb 6, 2006, 11:53:

explica porfavor...... the oldgringo has a cultural question..

what was that white,flour type stuff everyone was throwing around?
and why the water bombs?
was that what that was? the first time the oldgringo set foot in colombia? the first nite of carnaval 1972,.. coke and aguardiente??
or, is there some mystical brujissmo that 'splains it?

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elmodefoque says on Feb 6, 2006, 11:59:

og that stuff was just flower or talco and the water is to make it hard so it will stick to your head. We could not waste our flower so my friends and I threw burro crap at each other from across the street.

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elmodefoque says on Feb 6, 2006, 12:01:

the corroncho would get real mad at us, "nojoda!!! hay estan estos hp indios tirandose mierda otra vez"

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oldbongo says on Feb 6, 2006, 12:08:

thank you ...senor anthropologo... that matter has had the oldone mystified for generations,..
and you have enlightened him....
sounds like what used to be, in cartagena, on halloween, they had a little cultural event there too,... a firecracker war.

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elmodefoque says on Feb 6, 2006, 12:29:

Throwing burro crap at each other is quite harmless, not like when we throw rocks at each other
. At 8 years old I was real good and had incredible aim. I hit my buddy, half way the block, with a solid piece of burro crap dead square in his mouth. That modefoque was spitting burro crap for hours. How ironic, we had nothing but we sure did have a good time. We had mangos for breakfast lunch and dinner. My shit was pure yellow, that’s when I was not shitting parasite, worms.
. I hear you guys in Canada have buffalo dung throwing contest

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oldbongo says on Feb 6, 2006, 12:42:

you guys..you mean... as in... you injuns up in canada...
yeah..thats called lacrosse...the national game.
..legal gangs.
even the trailer park boys won't play with them.

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oldbongo says on Feb 6, 2006, 12:47:

us old guys... just take out our baseball card collections,
and play leaners against the wall.
you know,..for mantle, mays, koufax,..etc.

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