Good Friday in San Juan Cosala

Well, Good Friday has been behind us for a while but these pictures of Kelly's are still interesting. Pilgrimages are a very common feature of Mexican life that we didn't know about until we began traveling around Mexico a lot, several years ago. Often we would see people of all ages walking along highways, seemingly miles from anywhere.

Here the trip was shorter but it's steep climbing up into the mountains behind the town. People went up at least one street that leads into the mountains:



Some wore clothing characteristic of the Holy Land:


Here you can see the casual procession continuing uphill. In the upper left hand corner and all along near the top of the picture, you might just make out pilgrims higher up. They were going to a little chapel not visible in the photo.