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Have only been to the mother of all Caribbean carnivals aka Trinidad.
Never been to New Orleans so I guess I can't compare. I'd assume they are so totally different as to not be in any way comparable.
Not sure what the feeling is like in New Orleans in this week leading up to Carnival but the energy and excitement in Trinidad is pretty palpable and will build daily to a frenzy. As someone said it is really like a national mobilization lol.
My drive home from work I will pass by the panyards all loaded up with their pans getting ready to start practising obsessively all night for the steel pan finals this Saturday, city workers in the process of putting up banners on the streets, construction workers busy erecting stages in public squares for non masqueraders to sit and view come Monday and Tuesday, people coming from the mascamps with their costumes in hand.....it is an extremely bustling happy time
Have only been to the mother of all Caribbean carnivals aka Trinidad.
Never been to New Orleans so I guess I can't compare. I'd assume they are so totally different as to not be in any way comparable.
Why is it the mother? TnT isn't the only islad that does carnival, carniva was brought to the island from the french west indies.
Why is it the mother? TnT isn't the only islad that does carnival, carniva was brought to the island from the french west indies.
Perhaps that just to mean that he feels it is the best. It was a French tradition (and Catholic European tradition in general) which further developed in the French West Indies and then Trinidad & Tobago by the addition immigrants from the France & the French West Indies who brought more traditions from other cultures, especially cultures of African origin.
I`m pretty sure I read that it is the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. I wouldn`t dream to think that it would be older than European carnivals lol..that would be ludicrous.
It's hard to determine. From what I understand, Trinidad's dates back to the late 1700s but Brazil's dates back to the late 1600s/early 1700s. Colombia's also dates back to the 1700s and probably a number of others as well...so who knows.
Mardi Gras is the last day of Carnival. If you're participating in Carnival other than catching cups, beads and doubloons at Carnival parades in New Orleans (and Mobile), well, you need to be able to walk for miles (not so in Mobile). It's not just Mardi Gras that people do a lot of walking. Mardi Gras is the culmination of it all. In New Orleans there is a lot going on on Mardi Gras, regardless of what time of day it is.
To compare Carnival in New Orleans to Trinidad or other Caribbean and South American places is silly; it's completely different.
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