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Under the Santa Cruz bull ring, logs extend like an endless ribcage. Lots of people wait there from early on for the day’s rodeo to start.
To save their spaces they use chairs, hats, pots, handkerchiefs, chains and locks that surround the circumference of the wall. But that’s still not enough to guarantee a front row seat. For that, you have to be up at the crack of dawn or pay ¢10,000 ($16.60) per person in order to enter the ring.
The Voice of Guanacaste shows you 10 images of what happens during intermission and how that downtime is filled until the first horn sounds at 2 p.m. during the rodeos of Santa Cruz.
Although many buy tickets, there are entire families that decide to wait under the stage and save the ¢10,000 per adult and ¢5,000 per child that each ticket costs.
Many use handkerchiefs and chains to save their seat along the wall.
This is what the ring looks like from underneath where many wait for the rodeo to start.
Jetty Rivas arrives at 6 a.m. in order to see Saturday’s rodeo, which starts at 2 p.m. and uses boards to build two stools on top of the wall.
“I’ve been here since 6 in the morning,” says Charlie Baltodano, who has been at the ring for 30 hours. Going home to sleep would cost ¢7,000 for a taxi, so he prefers to sleep at the ring in order to not lose his spot and save the money. When his sister shows up to bring him lunch, he goes to take a shower at a business near the park.
Natalie Rodríguez, 5, arrived at the ring at 8:30 a.m. to meet her grandma Lilian Hernández, who came at 4 a.m,
Family members take turns saving spots in the first row hours before the day’s first rodeo.
Merchants sell mangos, sweets, pastries and beer to those who are waiting during early hours of the day.
Hundreds of people filled the lower area of the bullring bleachers minutes before the bull riding began at 2 p.m. during the 2019 bull rides.
When the first bull storms out, the wait is over for today and the show that everyone came to see will go on until the midnight.
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