We continue our discovery of this week’s Caribbean Carnivals with a look at the Carnival in the Guadeloupe Islands, which put a French Caribbean spin on the West Indian carnival. The five-island archipelago spends months preparing for the fete. (All photos by Philippe Tirolien of IDLineStudio).
Guadeloupe Islands, with a population of more than 400,000, is truly passionate about carnival.
The French Caribbean department puts a Creole spin on the traditional Caribbean carnival.
It’s Monday that the celebrations truly begin, with exotic costumes, the drum of biguine music and seemingly never-ending dances.
Costume preparations begin in early January, with every municipality working furiously to get ready for the event.
This week, it was all about parades, which take over the archipelago and transform work into partying.
The fetes continued all the way through Wednesday, with everybody celebrating.
See you in Guadeloupe!
— CJ