In early December Mexico's Catholics begin a pilgrimage to the Chalma church to leave their crown of flowers. They come from all over the country, generally in groups. If they hadn't have the image of the Virgin on their coaches or T-shirts, you would think it's some kind of sport event.
Most of the pilgrims are young men and women, and many of them are children. They travel on bicycles or they run, and the groups usually have support vehicles. (Sometimes it's hard to believe we don't...) And they are noisy! :)
It's their habit to make the pilgrimage making awful noises with car-alarms. Someone must have started it a while ago, and now every group have their noise-machines. I guess, these days it's easier to steal a car because no one would notice or care. :) But anyways, every habits or customs that bring people together are important and respectable. Even if they seem strange at first to the foreign eyes...
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