Thursday, January 17, 2008

Getting Ready for Carnival


Carnival activities have begun! Every Sunday evening up until February 5, the actual day of Carnival, La Pointe en Mouvement marches through the streets of Gustavia dressed in costumes of a different theme each week. They dance, sing and play tambours and other local percussive instruments. The mini-parade starts at La Pointe in Gustavia at 6:00 pm and finishes in front of the restaurant La Cantina on the harbor (around the corner from Le Select), arriving there around 7:00 pm. As you can see from the photos above, this past Sunday’s theme was “Newspaper.” Themes for the remaining Sundays preceding Carnival are below. On the Monday before Carnival, February 4, there will be the traditional parade in pajamas, and the burning of Vaval, which signifies the official end of Carnival, will take place on Wednesday, February 6 on Shell Beach.
Sunday, January 20 1970s
Sunday, January 27 Black and Gold
Sunday, February 3 Black and Red

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