Sentence examples for day of carnival from inspiring English sources
Lina Caicedo, 30, from south-east London, who was partying near the Aba Shanti-I sound system, said she was on her second day of carnival.
The paintings, valued at around $50m, were snatched on the first day of carnival from the Chacara do Ceu museum in the Santa Teresa district.
The tragedy in Haiti's capital prompted the government to cancel the last day of Carnival – the raucous celebrations preceding the start of Lent – and to declare three days of national mourning.
Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's India Guide Photo Credit: Radiokafka/Shutterstock. Mardi Gras Where: New Orleans, United States Every year before Lent, visitors flock to New Orleans's French quarter to celebrate Mardi Gras, the final day of Carnival.
"My heartfelt sympathy goes out to the victims of the serious incident that occurred this morning on the Champ de Mars on the 2nd day of Carnival," Martelly wrote.
Their procession on the Sunday and Tuesday of carnival is one its highlights.
My most recent trip to Cuba in July included exploring the extraordinary six day celebration of Carnival in Santiago.
A highlight this year will be the National Hockey League's All Star Game, to be held the last day of the carnival.
The embassy was closed Monday in observance of Presidents' Day and Tuesday in observance of Carnival Day, a national holiday in Panama.
Nonetheless, I love being surrounded by adults in all manner of face paint, corseting and neon spandex, because it's always accompanied by a delightful liberated glee that comes from people letting their ids run rampant, a sort of modern-day version of Carnival, the pre-Lent festival where, among other festivities, serfs and their manor lords swapped roles for the former to let off steam.
"We have to invent the Day of the Dead carnival because, after the James Bond movie, tourists are going to come looking for the carnival and they're not going to find it," Tourism Minister Enrique de la Madrid Cordero told a meeting of travel agents on the date designated to celebrate travel agents in Mexico.
