Carnival is a festive season that typically takes place in February right before Lent. It involves public celebrations and parades and people masquerade during the celebrations.
The most famous of the Carnivals take place today in Venice, Rio, New Orleans and Trinidad but did you know that Carnival is an INTERNATIONAL event celebrated in many areas around the globe?
Here are some carnival celebrations that you might not know about:
PANAMA!!
URUGUAY!!
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Other places with fairly famous carnivals: Haiti, Portugal, Nice, Bolivia, Malta, Greece, Macedonia, Hungary, Russia.... you name the country and ... they probably celebrate carnival!!!!!
Let us know if there is a country that you are from, visited or you know about that celebrates Carnival too!
Let us know if there is a country that you are from, visited or you know about that celebrates Carnival too!
Chellur. The Virgin Islands (both US and British) celebrate carnival as well.
ReplyDeleteSt. John = July
St. Thomas = End of April beginning of May
St. Croix = Christmas/New Years time
Tortola = August
It's like a party every month! Awesomeness!!
DeleteMy family is from Panama and carnival there is pretty GREAT!
ReplyDeleteFrom that video it looks PRETTY amazing!!!!
DeleteMy brother is in Panama for a wedding right now and enjoying carnival there. We are from St. Lucia and carnival is mainly in July. I have never played mas though!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter played mas in New York for the first last summer and it was pretty fun. I think I would like to do it some day
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