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Originally Posted by OldGregg
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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I agree with refraining from comparison.
But it makes sense that Mardi Gras as the last day/comparison of Carnival, pretty much like the Carnival Tuesday (Parade of the Bands) in Trinidad (and some other places) is the last day/culmination. People walk for miles and miles from before that as well, from Jouvert (Sunday night) through Carnival Monday and then Tuesday. You rest on a beach or wherever on Ash Wednesday.
What is it like in Mobile?
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