Traveling on a cruise ship messes with the time/space continuum in my mind. Unlike air or car travel, you can’t really sense the progression of the journey because you are encased in a floating city bubble. Arriving in port creates a disorienting sense of arriving in both a new time and place. Add to that the disconnect of discovering that you are somewhere that is not home, but without any context clues of arrival that help you to know just exactly where that somewhere is.
Fortunately, the locals at each cruise port have created an outreach program designed to provide sea traveling tourists with a crash course cultural orientation. This beauty and her beastly friends were our welcoming party when we made port in Progresso, Mexico and helped to remind us that we were in a foreign country and we needed to get busy soaking up the culture.
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These are wonderful pictures and those beast costumes are great. I'm sorry to say that I was one of the guilty passengers who sometimes bypassed the cultural presentations as we rushed to catch our port tours. Although, I'm glad that as my kids got older they made us stop to watch the interesting performances.
These costumes are incredible! I love that you all take the time to stop and appreciate the loacl culture – I love to do that but need to get the kids on board too!
~Becca
Do the cruise companies pay the locals to do that? That's pretty cool!
You look like you hit some really interesting ports. I don't recall any cultural presentations on our tours, but then again I was very rarely among the first off the boat, so perhaps I just slept through them. Great photos by the way.
Those are great photos! I haven't seen any cultural presentations on any of the cruises that we have been on either – great idea!
Wow awesome photos! The colors just pop. I've never been on a cruise myself but that is great that they help introduce you to the culture at each stop along the way.
That would definitely be the cultural part of the trip– Hello Mexico!!
Such bright, fun, colourful photos, Jessica 🙂
Some of those costumes look a lot like the traditional costumes worn in the neighboring country of Guatemala. Now they are used for folkloric dances, but they used to be ceremonial outfits of the native before the conquerors arrived.