As promised my steemit friends today I bring you the second video that I took of the insane New Year's Eve celebration in Guayaquil Ecuador. This video has a little more variety, like people burning tires, a drunk man either dead or totally passed out on the side walk, groups of teenagers cheering in the street, a little music, and a little traffic trying not to hit anyone nor get hit by bottle rockets and flaming debris!
This is by far the craziest way I've seen the New Year brought in. Most dangerous too! With out a doubt this would all be highly illegal in my home country of the United States. But here in Ecuador the people and their traditions rule, and that is not going to change any time soon. I just hope nobody got hurt.
In the first videoI started filming just after the action began. I really didn't know what I was in for. In that video you can see me run for cover, walk past children including a mother ducking behind her baby's carriage as explosions and fire only 10 meters away were going off!
I also explain the concept behind this "fiesta" It's all about burning these paper mache dolls that represent the old year and bringing in the new year. But things have been brought to new levels, where they now stuff these dolls with mini sticks of dynamite, firecrackers, and throw lighter fluid on top of the already burning piles of "Manigotes".
And that's not all, they run around with bags of M-80s (mini dynamite sticks) and throw them into the fires; hey, have some old furniture? Let's burn that too! Here are a couple old tires that let out a nice plume of black smoke! Why not? All this in the middle of the streets block after block for kilometers around! Talk about a party! Now let's have another look!
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