If you are new here, this is the week I most want you to understand. Semana Santa is Holy Week and the largest domestic holiday in Mexico, which makes it very different from the high season that runs before it.
Who is here
Mexican families, in numbers. This is not the foreign winter crowd, it is the country on holiday together, often several generations at once, often the same families in the same spot every year for decades.
The beaches are packed, the town is loud, and it is genuinely one of the best weeks of the year to be here if you like people. If you were expecting a tranquil retreat, you have booked the wrong seven days and nobody told you.
What it means practically
Everything is busier and everything is slower. Accommodation goes early and expensive, restaurants have queues, and getting anywhere by road takes longer than it should.
My timetable can move this week. Please do not assume it does and please do not assume it does not. Check the schedule page, or message me and ask.
Making the practice work
Morning, and early. The gap between an eight o’clock class and a six o’clock one is enormous in this particular week.
Consider going slightly gentler than your usual. Sleep is worse, noise is constant and heat is climbing towards April. That combination makes a hard class harder than the class is.
The right attitude
This is our most important week of the year and you are a guest in it. The visitors who have a bad Semana Santa are almost always the ones who turned up expecting March and got annoyed that it was not.
Go and watch what happens on the plaza in the evening. I would rather you did that than came to me. It is worth losing a class over, and I will be there tomorrow.