Feb 15
A participant named Drag Noa performs at a drag queen competition during carnival festivities in Las Palmas on the Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria, late February 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Borja Suarez)
Feb 15
Brazil Carnival Photos: Sexy Samba Dancers in Carnaval Rio de Janeiro / Rio Carnival is a wild 4 day celebration, 40 days before Easter. It officially starts on Saturday and finishes on Fat Tuesday with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday after which one is supposed to abstain from all bodily pleasures. Carnival with all its excesses, celebrated as a profane event, can be considered an act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh. It usually happens in February, the hottest month in the Southern Hemisphere, when the Rio summer is at its peak.
There are carnival celebrations in virtually every corner of Brazil, the best-known ones taking place in Recife together with the neighboring Olinda (in the North of Brazil) and Salvador. But the biggest and most famous carnival is undoubtedly the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro Continue reading »
Feb 15
A reveller wearing a handmade mask takes part in the annual carnival in the town of La Vega, Dominican Republic
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A reveller wearing a handmade mask takes part in the annual carnival in the town of La Vega, Dominican Republic on February 22, 2009. (REUTERS/ Eduardo Munoz)
Feb 14
Haitians celebrate Carnival on February in the city of Jacmel, Haiti
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Haitians celebrate Carnival on February 15, 2009 in the city of Jacmel, Haiti. (THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)
Feb 14
Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school dancers perform on the first night of the Carnival samba school parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 23, 2009. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
