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Extraordinary festivals

Extraordinary festivals

San Juan and the Guaycurues

San Juan and the Guaycurues

With this DVD we present 2 extraordinary festivals in Paraguay.
The festival of the "Guaycurues" in the city Emboscada is unique in the whole word. It's celebrate in honour of San Francisco Solano, who stayed the main part of his life in southamerica. The principal attraction of this festival are not the religious celebration - are the "Guaycurues"- at that time, one of the barbarous and dangerous indian tribes of southamerica. To rember this time, before the the evangelists arrived, hundred of people decorate their selfs with chicken feathers and masks, it offer a splendid sight.

The festival "San Juan" is like the St. John's fire. All the people in Paraguay celebrate "San Juan" in the night from the 23. to the 24.6., it's the longest night in the year. But we drove to the city San Juan Bautista for this film, because there, they celebrate really traditional. You see a lot of risky fire games and the highlight is the walk on fire. Men and also women walk, bare foot, over a 6 meter long charcoal way, without burnings under the feets. It's incredibly - but true. They people say it works only in this special night. We wanted to reproduce this fire walk, but also for a lot of money we found nobody to do this.
We say, without exaggeration, you see with this both festivals an absolut extraordinary show. Get to know better Paraguay and take the opprtunity to see this film.

Advance order of the DVD

The 45 min. Documentary film and 2 extraordinary festivals

             only 19.90 Euro

The 45 min. Documentary film and 2 extraordinary festivals

             only 19.90 Euro

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