Carnaval is fantastisch here. Leading up to it is music everywhere. Soka music. On Monday it started officially with the parade which starts about 4 am but basically the music goes all night. We were woken up way before 4 am by the music actually vibrating the boat. So we got up and walked out the gates of the marina with our old clothes on. There were already lots of people all full of paint dancing. As it got closer to day break it became one big mass of people moving while dancing and throwing paint and oil. The history behind that is the slaves who worked the fields from daybreak and the oil represents the molasses from the sugarcane. The number of people and the loud loud music made it a real happening. Also all the drinking and smoking dope would have helped We did not stay all that long and 'enjoyed'it further from the boat. I had Chloe on Skype and she could hear it clearly.
That afternoon was the costumes parade which was very beautiful. Representing different times of the day the seasons and the different countries.
In the evening was mas which is the parade of lights. We waited with all the other people for hours dancing to the music. Finally we saw millions of red lights coming down the hill accompanied by even louder music. It was a fantasic hype and everyone gets swept away by it.
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