Tag: “Festivals”

14 photos found.

  1. Fiesta de la Cruz

    In the first few days of May, Peruvians celebrate la Fiesta de la Cruz--the Festival of the Cross. Long processions, including these men in a local costume, carry the cross through the streets.

  2. Painstaking

    A family member getting pierced for the pilgrimage to the temple. The container is a small milk pot pierced into the skin.

  3. Weak in the Knees

    A woman is overtaken with emotion/spirituality during Thaipusam and faints. The elder women care for her.

  4. Tension

    Pulling a heavy chariot to the temple as an offering. A painful looking process.

  5. Sweet Dreams

    Young girl takes a nap during the colorful festivities

  6. Spilt Milk

    Milk spills out of the milk pots that are being carried as offerings.

  7. Mermaid friends, Mermaid parade, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New

    Even children love getting involved in the parade and costume fun. Here a group of friends are dressed as little mermaids and are happy to be part of the parade.

  8. Orange Piercing

    During Thaipusam, the piercing burdens were weighted down with offereings of fruit.

  9. Feeling Green?

    Thaipusam Festival - fruit hangs from people's backs pierced into the flesh.

  10. Kavati

    A man carrying the burden of a kavati for his family.