Why are masks worn during Carnival and Mardi Gras? During the early Carnival and Mardi Gras celebrations, revelers wore masks ...

Ready your feathered face mask, keep an eye ... Synonymous with Mardi Gras, New Orleans welcomes nearly 1.5 million visitors annually to take part in the Carnival festivities — ranging from ...

What Trinidad does have is carnival—a centuries-old blowout reputedly so wild and intense that it makes Mardi Gras look like a ... at one time or another, drums, masks and dancing in the streets.

For some, Carnival season, especially Mardi Gras in New Orleans ... and his portrayal varies from village to village. The mask of this particular devil, Tifuá, can be made from an ox, horse ...

Both festivals - Mardi Gras in New Orleans or Rio de Janeiro Carnival - fire up bucket lists like few other events around the ...