Musical Merida

The city where we are staying at the moment has so much live music all the time. All weekend there was music on the streets, from salsa, to mambo, to marimba,to trove. The local Meridan people all come out and dance on the streets. A great party atmosphere from 9 in the morning until later at night. There was also a folklore ballet performance two nights ago which was interesting to watch. There were 10 couples doing a kind of tap dance style (a Mexican version of riverdance). One of the routines involved dancing on a small wooden box with a tray of drinks of their heads - not one to be tried at home!! The youth hostel has been providing free salsa lessons every night so that has kept us busy in the evenings avoiding other peoples feet (I had a slight advantage from having done Lain American dancing when I was younger).
Also ventured out to a local local fair, which was a mixture of everything from cattle shows to food stalls to a fair ground rides. They also had demonstrations of people diving from huge heights into a dolphin pool and a rodeo with proper cowboys. It was packed full of Mexican families enjoying their day out and wondering why two 'gringos' were walking about the place!