757 Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Does anyone know why there have been intermittent cohetes since 2 AM today, in Chapala? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1mex Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Patron Saint of Ajijic. Will be going on until the end of the month. Ear plugs !! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecoons Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Get ready for 9 days of fireworks. Lotta people go to the beach this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Actually the fireworks will go on until December the 12th (Dia de la Virgin de Guadalupe) since the two festivals are pretty much back to back. Earplugs for you and cbd drops for the critters in the house. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
757 Posted November 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 San Andreas has little do do with Chapala. There is something else going on here. BTW, San Andreas is always my favorite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevalerieleigh Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Me too, I live in Ajijic el centro and LOVE the Fiesta Patrias de San Andreas. Can't wait to enjoy a few nibbles of the delicious Pan de Nata! Cheers! Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapalence Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 According to mi amiga, es la fiesta de Santa Cecilia. A lot of music, dancing and drinking. Oh, and cohetes all day. https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/hoy-celebramos-a-santa-cecilia-patrona-de-los-musicos-47410 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Depending on which way your home faces, noise travels. I live in lower Riberas and can sometimes here the cohetes from Chapala and/or Jocotepec. YMMV. It's just a noisy time of the year. Get used to it and take precautions if it's really annoying. Viva Mexico! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
757 Posted November 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 I have lived here for many years. Since these during the night were only a block or so from my home I simply was interested in finding out the occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dichosalocura Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Yes, today is the day of the patron saint of musicians or Santa Cecilia. Today there will be a large fiesta usually with free tequila in Chapala. Most years it is done outside the Cozumel Restaurant in Chapala by the Eastern portion of the malecón. Come out and celebrate Santa Cecilia tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dichosalocura Posted November 23, 2019 Report Share Posted November 23, 2019 Well guys, don't bother coming down to the Chapala malecón to join in in the fiesta de Santa Cecilia because apparently they aren't having one on the malecón. This will be the first time in 8 years that I've been down here that they didn't celebrate it on the malecón. A lone mariachi guy explained to me tonight that they decided to let each individual barrio celebrate it in their own way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addtocart Posted November 23, 2019 Report Share Posted November 23, 2019 22 hours ago, Mainecoons said: Get ready for 9 days of fireworks. Lotta people go to the beach this week. Fireworks are those colorful things in the sky. This is just noise. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappysmarket Posted November 23, 2019 Report Share Posted November 23, 2019 7 hours ago, addtocart said: Fireworks are those colorful things in the sky. This is just noise. The original intent of that noise was to wake up "the faithful" and get them to church or wherever the festivities were taking place. It was meant as a town wide alarm clock, Muslim call to prayer all for the cheap price of a cohete. No colorful things in the sky, those things are expensive. It was basically to get you off your a** and on your way to services. Just because we're not used to that doesn't make it wrong or bad. Remember, they were doing this long before we showed up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 On November 22, 2019 at 1:32 PM, Ferret said: Depending on which way your home faces, noise travels. I live in lower Riberas and can sometimes here the cohetes from Chapala and/or Jocotepec. YMMV. It's just a noisy time of the year. Get used to it and take precautions if it's really annoying. Viva Mexico! Not many cohetes in Ajijic . Are they just warming up or is it going to be a quiet year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomgates Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 Just warming up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 San Antonio was quieter this year for the June festival. The story was that Chapala had run out of money for cohetes, so they were fewer. It would be too much to hope that the condition lasts for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 Although there are cohetes going off right now in Ajijic this evening. But so far in the number of early morning cohetes have been fewer and less disturbing to ones morning sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kam Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 This year has been quieter in centro Ajijic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addtocart Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 17 hours ago, pappysmarket said: The original intent of that noise was to wake up "the faithful" and get them to church or wherever the festivities were taking place. It was meant as a town wide alarm clock, Muslim call to prayer all for the cheap price of a cohete. No colorful things in the sky, those things are expensive. It was basically to get you off your a** and on your way to services. Just because we're not used to that doesn't make it wrong or bad. Remember, they were doing this long before we showed up. I'm not talking about any original intent from 500 years ago. Do people really get up at 3 in the morning to go to church just because there's explosions all night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappysmarket Posted November 24, 2019 Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 1 hour ago, addtocart said: I'm not talking about any original intent from 500 years ago. Do people really get up at 3 in the morning to go to church just because there's explosions all night? Short answer...yes they do. If you live in a Mexican neighborhood you will surely see them, not at 3:00, but closer to 5 or 6 gathering in small groups and walking to the church. You don't have to join them but you have to be "clueless" not to be aware of this. It may be slowly dying but it's not anything from 500 years ago. As my teachers used to say, "Pay attention!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Sylvestre Posted November 28, 2019 Report Share Posted November 28, 2019 They should give the money to the poor instead of spending it on noise making, these cohetes are expensive and from what I have being hearing since this morning, they could have feed a lot of hungry Mexicains and neutured a lot of dogs!! 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barcelonaman Posted November 28, 2019 Report Share Posted November 28, 2019 You sure you got that right guy? ...could have neutered a lot of randy mexicans and fed a lot of hungry dogs!...stops poverty and the dogs bark less . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xena Posted November 28, 2019 Report Share Posted November 28, 2019 15 minutes ago, Guy Sylvestre said: They should give the money to the poor instead of spending it on noise making, these cohetes are expensive and from what I have being hearing since this morning, they could have feed a lot of hungry Mexicains and neutured a lot of dogs!! Lived here 11 years. Yours is an oft repeated refrain, especially from new comers and the chronically cranky. Remember the Peanuts cartoons where whenever an off-screen adult was speaking all you heard was “Whaaa whaaa whaaaaa whaa wha”? Yeah. That there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Sylvestre Posted November 28, 2019 Report Share Posted November 28, 2019 20 minutes ago, Xena said: Lived here 11 years. Yours is an oft repeated refrain, especially from new comers and the chronically cranky. Remember the Peanuts cartoons where whenever an off-screen adult was speaking all you heard was “Whaaa whaaa whaaaaa whaa wha”? Yeah. That there. Thank you Xena, refreshing to hear your point of view!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted November 28, 2019 Report Share Posted November 28, 2019 It is a Catholic thing so move to an Evangelist area, they bitch like hell about the money gong up in smoke as well. They hate all celebration of santos..The cohetes from the church start before 6 as the first mass is at 6 and yes there are people going . there.. In Can Cristobal de las Casas we have muslims.. 5 different prayer centers and one of them is a mosl with a minaret but I have never heard the call to prayer from there.. maybe they should start and piss off everyone and we could ban all of this call to prayers.. it would be nice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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