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Costumed Crowd
These are just a few of the over 5,000 people who dance in the Carnival parade each year. There are so many different bands - large and small - that participate and the costumes range from sparkly jeweled bikini-style (like we wore) to the more traditional and elaborate.
Carnival - a (truly wonderful) Hot Trini Mess
February 24th 2009 My friend Garron (whom you may remember from our travels together during the summer of 2006 and my visit to Rwanda in December 2007) has been living in Trinidad for the last year and invited a bunch of us to join him there for their biggest celebration of the year - Carnival! I used to automatically think of Rio de Janeiro and maybe New Orleans in connection with mardi gras celebrations but, as
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