dominican carnival!!

in dominican republic every sunday off February the dominican population celebrates their independece a very colorful parade that ends on February 27th with an amazing and huge parade.every city adds its own flavor to the celebration, but what they have in common is that in every city people wear costums, masks, and any kind of thinks to be part of the carnival parade. people from around all the world come to celebrate our carnival every year because during February many funny, exciting, crazy things happen in Dominican Republic.

the main character of our carnival is the devil, but this is not a bad devil, people in the past call this character like that because this character was very funny and likes to make jokes to the people. in the present each devil has a ballons that is used to tap the people on the parade.every city has a different kind of devil, character, and also a different way to prepare the parades. this is way dominican republic become a colorful and joyful country on February.

La vega is the main city in dominican republic when we talk about carnival, because this city spends a lot of money on their costumes and maks, on the decoration of their caves (which is the spot where they get together and start their parade), with parties almost every weekend, on the parades around all the city where they go jumping, dancing, and tappinig people. this carnival is known around all the world, and it is considered to be one of the most famous and joyful of the world.

In Bonao is almost the same parade and costumes than La Vega, the differences is that they make their carnival a little bit longer.

The carnival in Santiago is different because the devils and their history is not as the other carnivals of the country. In the past in Santiago each neighborhood used to wear costumes to fight against any other neighborhood, so every neighborhood began to used the same costumes but different masks to differentiate their partners. Now they still using the same way of wearing the costumes, but now they do not fight, they just go around the city tapping people and pretending that they are fighting with their whips.

devils fight....