MEXICO

Mazatlan

While we slept, the Statendam sailed east, across the Gulf of California.

Our first stop on the "tour of the day" was at a scenic overlook,
filled with vendors. For a price, you could get up close and
personal with an iguana.

Dee bravely clasped one for the photo op.

We had a "narrated tour through residential districts and the downtown".

At one of our stops, we posed with our tour guide....a very nice fellow. That day, I wore MY hat.

The highlight of the tour was the Folkloric Show &
Papantla Flyers, daredevil Totonac Indians who
performed in the 1986 World's Fair. In this picture,
they've climbed to the top of this pole and then tethered
themselves and flung themselves off, backwards.
As the tethers unwind, they're slowly lowered back
down to the ground. One daredevil stays standing on
the top and prays, I think.

One this apparatus, the Papantla Flyers are
not unlike a human pinwheel.

Next came the dancers. This couple had thrown scarves down on the ground and somehow, using their feet and dancing all the while, they tied them in a bow.

This young man is doing a dance about deerhunting. He's the deer, actually. We saw this performed several times so it must be quite traditional. Matzatlan means "place of the deer".

Then, of course, they performed the Mexican Hat Dance. We saw this done several times, also, and the lady always wore this very different hooped skirt. The hoops started just below the waist and continued down to the floor.

The costumes were very colorful and the dancers showed them to great advantage.

Last, but not least, IGUANA shop for a great big tanzanite ring!
Pardo Jewellers is in the heart of the Golden Zone (the shopping area in Mazatlan).



Our first stop on the "tour of the day" was at a scenic overlook, filled with vendors. For a price, you could get up close and personal with an iguana.	Dee bravely clasped one for the photo op.



We had a "narrated tour through residential districts and the downtown".	At one of our stops, we posed with our tour guide....a very nice fellow. That day, I wore MY hat.



The highlight of the tour was the Folkloric Show & Papantla Flyers, daredevil Totonac Indians who performed in the 1986 World's Fair. In this picture, they've climbed to the top of this pole and then tethered themselves and flung themselves off, backwards. As the tethers unwind, they're slowly lowered back down to the ground. One daredevil stays standing on the top and prays, I think.	One this apparatus, the Papantla Flyers are not unlike a human pinwheel.



Next came the dancers. This couple had thrown scarves down on the ground and somehow, using their feet and dancing all the while, they tied them in a bow.	This young man is doing a dance about deerhunting. He's the deer, actually. We saw this performed several times so it must be quite traditional. Matzatlan means "place of the deer".



Then, of course, they performed the Mexican Hat Dance. We saw this done several times, also, and the lady always wore this very different hooped skirt. The hoops started just below the waist and continued down to the floor.	The costumes were very colorful and the dancers showed them to great advantage.

Mazatlan

While we slept, the Statendam sailed east, across the Gulf of California.

Our first stop on the "tour of the day" was at a scenic overlook,filled with vendors. For a price, you could get up close and personal with an iguana.

Dee bravely clasped one for the photo op.

We had a "narrated tour through residential districts and the downtown".

At one of our stops, we posed with our tour guide....a very nice fellow. That day, I wore MY hat.

One this apparatus, the Papantla Flyers arenot unlike a human pinwheel.

Next came the dancers. This couple had thrown scarves down on the ground and somehow, using their feet and dancing all the while, they tied them in a bow.

This young man is doing a dance about deerhunting. He's the deer, actually. We saw this performed several times so it must be quite traditional. Matzatlan means "place of the deer".

Then, of course, they performed the Mexican Hat Dance. We saw this done several times, also, and the lady always wore this very different hooped skirt. The hoops started just below the waist and continued down to the floor.

The costumes were very colorful and the dancers showed them to great advantage.

Last, but not least, IGUANA shop for a great big tanzanite ring! Pardo Jewellers is in the heart of the Golden Zone (the shopping area in Mazatlan).

Our first stop on the "tour of the day" was at a scenic overlook,
filled with vendors. For a price, you could get up close and
personal with an iguana.

One this apparatus, the Papantla Flyers are
not unlike a human pinwheel.

Last, but not least, IGUANA shop for a great big tanzanite ring!
Pardo Jewellers is in the heart of the Golden Zone (the shopping area in Mazatlan).