Thirteen music and dance groups, fourteen floats, and hundreds of masked participants brought carnival to the streets of Playa Blanca last weekend, while thousands of residents and tourists joined the festivities.
In keeping with this year’s carnival theme, the parade featured many gods and goddesses of Olympus, who displayed their most earthly forms to share great powers, including love and beauty, in Playa Blanca.
Current events were also very much present in the parade. Spectators saw a US helicopter alongside Trump and a handcuffed Maduro dressed as a prisoner, escorted by US security agents, to whom Yaiza granted a four-day visa to enjoy the carnival.
It was clear from the parade that it had rained a lot in Lanzarote over the past few months. Gustavo, a lifelong farmer from the south, could barely manage his wheelbarrow filled to the brim with weeds.
It is also worth highlighting the elaborate outfits of the dance troupes, batucadas, and murgas, whose spectacular displays added even more sparkle to the parade.
Yaiza was very well represented by the Los Timanfeiros dance troupe and the Yaiseros and Ritmos del Sur batucadas.
The Mayor Óscar Noda and Councillor for Festivities Daniel Medina publicly thanked all the groups, floats, and participants for their involvement. Noda, Medina, and the other councillors of the municipal government opened the parade alongside the legendary Lanzarote-born Chaplin, a character who never misses the event in Playa Blanca.
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