April tourist destination - Mount St. Benedict Monastary

On Good Friday, we dragged our newly arrived guest Ben to a hike up Mount St. Benedict to the Caribbean's oldest monastery. Re-enactors acted out the stations of the cross on the way up and people carried candles and sang. The walk started at 4:00 am and when we drove to the foot of the hill there was the mingling of club-goers who were ending their evening and church-goers who were starting this walk up to the monastery. The church-going crowd grew throughout the two hour procession and probably was up to 1,000 by the time we reached the top.

Here you can see the crowd and mini-marts that opened early to sell snacks and candles.


Here are some roman soldiers...


Two guys snapped large whips on the walk up...