Today there was a celebration of the Virgin at the sanctuary about a km up the road from the campground. All day long people walked from the park which is 6 kms away. The road past the campground was closed to traffic and vendors selling everything from candles to meals had set up along the road.Apparently the main bulk of the attendees were going to do the pilgrimage at 9pm and the organizers expected about 100,000!We walked up to the sanctuary around 8pm. We saw two long lines of people heading in opposite directions. One line up was waiting to be blessed by one of two priests. The other was waiting for the bus! Partly cloudy 32

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