Starting at 9pm tomorrow night the Carnival festivities officially begin; although the day after Christmas was the start of fun leading up to Carnival Monday and Tuesday (Feb. 15 & 16). Even though we will have to be working during the day these two days we are going to definitely still go up north to Port-of-Spain to see everyone celebrating Carnival.
The main event that locals and tourists participate in is called playing mas, which is where you are in a tribe within a band and march down the street having fun. This normally occurs during the day on Monday and Tuesday but as soon as the sun goes down another kind of party beings called J'ouvert. This starts at 9pm on Sunday and continues unti Ash Wednesday morning. During this event there is music playing and people throwing mud, oil, paint and I have heard even chocolate into the air therefore by the end of the night you are covered - so I am will not be wearing anything nice! I look forward to posting pictures of everything I participate in and get to see these next few days!
Stay tuned...
My explainations regarding Carnival are somewhat elementary so you can Google more.
13 years ago
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