Mexican carnival Bashny.Net

Carnival long in a week in Mexico is an event to say which is "fine", it means nothing to say. It starts the week before Catholic lent, days of carnival are colorful, cheerful and very noisy street parades, incessant for a minute of music, dancing in the streets and fireworks.


Officially the carnival lasts five days and during these days many inhabitants and guests appear on the streets only in masks, who, according to legend, supposed to protect evil spirits. At the time when the carnival immediately begins lent, and thus the carnival is the last opportunity to experience the pleasures of worldly life.


To see all of this splendor, you should go to one of the port towns. Best — in Mazatlan. Every year at the carnival, there gathers more than 300 thousand people that keeps the Mexican carnival in the value with the carnivals in Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans. In the final days of the carnival hosts a variety of entertainment and competitions. So, for example, in Mazatlan, is a national literary contest for previously unpublished works name of Klimentii Sauri, and I must say it is very popular.




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