semana santa-holy week

Semana Santa

Easter Week, or Holy Week, is a big deal in Dominican Republic, not just for the church people, but it´s a big party time too as best I can tell.

Many people leave the cities and go to a beach somewhere. I´m staying about 25 kilometres from the capital Santo Domingo at a beach community called Boca Chica. It´s packed this weekend with families and partyers from Santo Domingo. Presidente beer sponsors various events including beach volleyball. It wasn´t just for fun, the players seemed to be quite good and it included teams from Canada... at least there was a Maple Leaf flying along with the other participating countries. I wish I had taken photos of the bleachers at the respective mens and womens courts... lots of spectators at the women´s... nobody at the mens. There was a three on three basketball court too.