The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Fans of Mexico’s famed firewater will have the chance to engage in some serious tippling over the three-day run of the Chapala Tequila Festival, which kicks off Friday, July 19 along the center line of the waterfront Malecon.
Festivities surrounding the annual summer visit of the famed statue of the Virgin of Zapopan were replete with all the usual religious pageantry, with a few novel twists for the several thousand devotees in attendance.
As if free samplings of Mexico’s emblematic firewater isn’t enough to draw hoards of visitors, the three-day Festival del Tequila Chapala 2013 will offer plenty of south-of-the-border style entertainment.
Hundreds of off-road enthusiasts roared into Chapala last Sunday to mix it up in the mud at the area’s first Festival del Lodo.
Chapala will welcome the beloved Virgen de Zapopan on Sunday, July 14 for a two-day visit that will be enveloped in colorful fanfare and religious fervor.
A fugitive who had been hiding out in Lakeside for several months was arrested by Chapala police this week and extradited to the United States.
With the Virgin of Zapopan’s summer pilgrimage and the Mud Festival off-road vehicle event (see above right) both booked for Sunday, July 14, motorists should think twice before setting out to drive to or through Chapala that day.
Christian de la Cruz, a four-year-old boy from San Juan Tecomatlan who was born deaf and without ears, has just returned to lakeside after receiving specialized surgery at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal, Canada.
Motorheads can expect a day of adrenaline and sport at the Can-Am BRP Festival del Lodo, to be held in Chapala on Sunday, July 14.
