Experience Carnival in Martinique
(1906 – 2006)
Unlike Elsewhere, Revelry Will Continue
Right Through Ash Wednesday, March 1
Carnival celebrations in such Mardi Gras capitals as Rio, New Orleans and Trinidad are sizzling hot right through 
Shrove Tuesday, but then fizzle out with the arrival of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Not so in Martinique! While revelers elsewhere in the world are nursing hangovers and having their aching foreheads dabbed with ashes, the people of Martinique are just beginning the final, most exciting day of their celebration. Here Carnival runs at full tilt an extra 24 hours and, with more than 40 marching bands joining the festivities in 2006, Martinique is planning a party of a lifetime!
Mardi Gras connoisseurs from many lands, including the late Truman Capote, himself a native ofNew Orleans Martinique.
It’s “as spontaneous and vivid as an explosion in a fireworks factory” event, wrote Truman Capote in “Music for Chameleons,” describing his visit to Carnival inMartinique .
Shrove Tuesday, but then fizzle out with the arrival of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Not so in Martinique! While revelers elsewhere in the world are nursing hangovers and having their aching foreheads dabbed with ashes, the people of Martinique are just beginning the final, most exciting day of their celebration. Here Carnival runs at full tilt an extra 24 hours and, with more than 40 marching bands joining the festivities in 2006, Martinique is planning a party of a lifetime!Mardi Gras connoisseurs from many lands, including the late Truman Capote, himself a native of
It’s “as spontaneous and vivid as an explosion in a fireworks factory” event, wrote Truman Capote in “Music for Chameleons,” describing his visit to Carnival in
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