Each year, more than 100 brotherhoods travel to the hermitage at El Rocío from all over Andalucía. One time, in 1980, I had nowhere to sleep after we arrived in El Rocío. One of their nephews, José Antonio, joined later on, and when he got married and had children, he started his own carreta family. This photo, from 2003, is of his wife, María José, washing their daughter, El Rocío – in Andalucía, it’s an extremely common name – in a campsite basin at the end of the day. When passing a river, everyone gets baptised with a special El Rocío name.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2017 12:36 UTC