Karneval aka Mardi Gras!!! (Kleve, Germany 2014)

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Channel: Very unOfficial Travel Guides · 2014 · Travel & Events

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Karneval is an age old tradition celebrating the good things in life in large excess leading up to Ash Wednesday and Lent, (where the tradition of fasting begins, aka, "giving up something for Lent".  It's called different things around the world, like Mardi Gras, Fasching, Fastnacht, but altogether, the idea behind the tradition remains the same and has been celebrated for literally hundreds of years in Europe.  There are parades, street parties, and the kind of variety show like events like we're at tonight.

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