Carnival in New Orleans

The city of the rhythm, beside Mississippi, is very different from the remainder of the cities of the United States, since your philosophy consists on allowing the time to happen. This feature is accentuated even more, if of the carnival it is.

In this you take care, this celebration you restitution the most cheerful in the country inside this category, since music, glasses and spree in bars and clubs are some of the acitividades that carnival to carnival is usually carried out. You are also allowed, to drink alcohol in the street, I don't eat in the remainder of the country. In the parade they participate 15.000 disguised people and 350 coaches, from those that necklaces of colors hurtle.

Another of the stradiciones here, consists that "Fat Tuesday" is presided over by the "Uncle Jules", a fat king and with horse face that he/she administer the chaos. Now bie, not the whole period is of revel. The day Tuesday is a more family day, to walk through the on colorings of sale. But... at nine in the night, the dances of disguises and the desmadre begin. In Bournbon Street, is the most excitant thing, all the bars and clubs.

Other places to see and to visit that they are certain in this time of the year, they are Madrid Grass Museum, where they are projected relative movies to the carnival, Mississippi or Vieux Carré. The center is Jackson Square, where they are the cathedral and street musicians and artists make an appointment.

Regarding the gastronomic environment, once in New Orleans he/she cannot stop to be sampled the Creole cuisine, of inheritance francoespañola. The hour of the food is a blessing with plates like "jambalaya", "Gumbo", "po'boy" or padded crabs and cake of oysters.