COLOMBIA | Friday, 3 May 2013 | Views [193]
...On these two days the city goes wild, with everybody painting or dusting one another with grease, chalk, talc, flour and any other available substance even vaguely black or white in tone. T;s a serious affair - wear the worst clothes you have and buy a antifaz, a sort of mask to protect the face, widely sold for this occasion. Asthmatics should not attend - you'll be coughing up talcum powder for day afterwards. (from the Lonely Planet)