Barrio Santa Mónica

Highlights:
- Joining a 'dance circle' while live tambo music was being played
- Joining a locals for a party in front of their house and being covered in flour!
- Dancing at street parties and at an open air bar
- Seeing the parades on the different days with all the different costumes and dancing
- Wearing carnival clothes and fancy dress with our friends
- Locals teaching us how to dance

Lowlights:
- Felt unsafe at points - we went to a dodgy area to buy second hand clothes for outfits and were told by locals to put our phones away (by the end of carnival we knew a lot of people who had their phones stolen)
- Difficult to see the parade on the first day because there was so many people - luckily the other days we had good views
- Lack of sleep!

Food and drinks:
- Salchipapas - more of the loaded fries, yum!
- The hostel was also a pizzeria so lots of pizza was eaten!
- Arepas with an egg inside and fried - so tasty but not healthy at all!
- A really nice brunch with the whole group on the last day to finish the carnivalRead more