Mardi Gras fervor on lakeside streets

Colorful parades added razzle-dazzle to lakeside’s Carnaval festivities.

Chapala put on one of the best street spectacles in memory Sunday, with professionally constructed floats and lots of performance talent brought in from other parts. 

Ajijic’s Tuesday parade was the usual eccentric hometown affair distinguished by outlandish costuming and the relentless showering of flour that left the cobblestones and by-standers blanketed in white as if a winter blizzard had hit.