St.Lucia's Carnival

St Lucia's Carnival is the most extravagant event on the island. Each year in the capital, Castries, throngs of people jam the streets in colorful costumes to parade to the latest soca and calypso hits.

The major highlight of the carnival season is the calypso competition. The island's premier performers pit their lyrical and musical abilities in an attempt to win the coveted Calypso Monarch title. The season begins months in advance, with competitors performing nightly for audiences eager to hear the latest offerings.

The carnival also features a beauty queen competition, a steel band competition called Panorama and a King and Queen of the Band competition. Individuals representing particular bands compete in elaborate costumes before a panel of judges. Amidst the revelry there is also a jam that features top soca acts from throughout the Caribbean.

All of the action explodes into a kaleidoscope of color and sound on Carnival Tuesday when the costumed bands take to the streets for a day of complete and unadulterated fun.

Here are some pictures to share for you...

with Mr...errr Mr. $

with a beautiful woman

I can't believe they did that

Something, something errrr....I don't know too

Another..............

Devils

Carnival Queen

Another one

My favorite one but she lost

Ah! this little boy is looking at something interesting...You can look it, but you can't touch it

After some Rums, any style could happen...

That is how they loaded their bands

I loved this groups, full of kids

One of them

Root woman, I guess

Mr. Chinese King

The last one

I was trying to be really close to the performers and then I knew that most of them are really drunk, that's the reason why they could do something naughty hehehehehe without any shyness. You know what, each of them had to spend some hundreds of Caribbean Dollars just to get the costumes, and after the carnival, you can see pieces of their torn costumes thrown away everywhere...