CARNAVAL 2013

 

Pre-Carnaval events begin in early January and Carnaval itself starts just a few weeks later!!

Residents and visitors can look forward to bright costumes, lively dances and colorful floats for the main parade which heads down the "Malecon" or boardwalk along the downtown beachfront. In Cozumel, the costumes and dancing take on a somewhat Mayan theme, reflecting the island's heritage. Of course, there will also be lots of music and dancing, and plenty of great food.
In Cozumel, the festival has over 130 years of history and it's one of the best Carnival festivals in the region!

Carnaval officially begins 2/6/2013 with parades Saturday 2/9 at 6:00pm, Sunday 2/10 at 6:00pm, and the Final Mardi Gras Parade at 6:00pm on Tuesday 2/12

For information on events and dates please keep checking:

http://www.cozumelinsider.com/CarnavalCal

 

Poinsettias during the Winter Holiday Season

Poinsettia plants are native to Central America, especially an area of southern Mexico known as 'Taxco del Alarcon' where they flower during the winter. The poinsettia was made widely known because of a man called Joel Roberts Poinsett. Poinsett had some greenhouses on his plantations in South Carolina, and while visiting the Taxco area in 1828, he became very interested in the plants. He immediately sent some of the plants back to South Carolina, where he began growing the plants and sending them to friends and botanical gardens. Robert Buist was probably the first person to have sold the poinsettias under their botanical, or latin name, name 'Euphorbia pulcherrima' (it means, 'the most beautiful Euphorbia'). It is thought that they became known as Poinsettia in the mid 1830's when people found out who had first brought them to America from Mexico.

http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/poinsettia.shtml