Viva Quito

Posted by: sundarrajk on: December 8, 2010

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Viva Quito is celebrated on the 6th of December. This day is considered to be the day on which the city of Quito was founded.

It is a public holiday and there is lots of partying through the week. The people hire out vehicles called ¨Chiva¨, which are trucks fitted with seats and open on all sides. They have loud music playing and they have lot of drinking and partying. They drink sugarcane juice laced with some alcoholic drink. They drive around the city to shouts of ¨Viva Quito¨.

Every office and school and class has a ¨Beauty Queen¨ contest and they play cards for the whole week.

On the ¨Viva Quito¨ day they have a parade going down the streets of Quito. There are many floats representing different aspects of Quito and different groups in Quito.

We went to watch the Parade on this day.

Also went to the nearby Carolina Park and another mall nearby.