Warning....attending carnaval in Colombia can seriously damage your health, your camera, your clothes. etc

tejasmarcos says on Mar 31, 2008, 10:37:

nice pics! very cool!

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bamacellist says on Mar 31, 2008, 11:06:

Several of my friends in Barranquilla stay away from a lot of Carnaval activities because of the flour throwing. Like it or not, it's part of the tradition.

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rjstuff says on Mar 31, 2008, 11:15:

It wasn't too bad when I was in the Barranquilla carnaval - one of the biggest in the country. Had lots of fun. Kept the camera lens covered - ja ja ja.

nueva york bombero says on Mar 31, 2008, 13:01:

When is this one in Santa Marta?

Bill Turley says on Mar 31, 2008, 13:11:

This sounds like the problems I had with Birthdays when I was Rector and Coodinator of Discipline. Flour, and raw eggs! Made quite a mess but the students loved it unfortunately. It became known that to practice this excess meant cleaning up the mess after school.

Mr. Bill Somondoco

kalder says on Mar 31, 2008, 13:16:

You were wearing what?!

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robi666 says on Mar 31, 2008, 13:23:

bama, you forget about the coloured water bags.

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Juanes says on Mar 31, 2008, 13:38:

yep this was santa marta feb 2007....

kder, i wore that top a few times cos it helped with people speaking spanish to me first instead of english in places in central and latin america, with a sun tan and long hair i was trying to say no entiendo ingles papi , to have conversations in castellano, it was a psychological thing, i know english people generally have a bee in their bonnet about argentina.

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nueva york bombero says on Mar 31, 2008, 13:45:

What's the dates? I'd love to coordinate the Barranquilla carnaval with the SM one .....

Juanes says on Mar 31, 2008, 14:00:

they kind of all run around the same time in colombia as in panama or brazil or venezuela...feb 12th onwards i guess, goes on or off for around 2 weeks and the colombians start to come from medellin, bogota,etc to the coast for it around mid feb....robi will probably know more cos he lives there right ?

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bamacellist says on Mar 31, 2008, 14:31:

Wouldn't Carnaval be the same time everywhere? It's related to Lent, which establishes its timing.

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Carlotica says on Mar 31, 2008, 20:17:

why your health? I don't get it

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goin_south says on Mar 31, 2008, 22:35:

yep... that's like the festival blanco y negro in pasto... if you don't want to get pasted with all the white stuff... or, black... then stay the F! inside... everyone I sprayed with that chit... business suites or whatevaaaaa... (Tg)... they just laughed it off... NO WAY THEY'D HAVE THAT LACKSADASICAL ATTITUDE IN THE STODGY OL EEUU.

why can't the freakin Chung King Chinese just LEAVE THE FREAKN DOLLY LLAMA and Tibet ... ALONE!

Juanes says on Apr 1, 2008, 04:24:

carlocita, las palabras fueron un chiste, supongo...humor de los ingleses...no tuve itenciones serios...

but a few times i got blasted in the face with sawdust and flower stadning so close...

jason

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Carlotica says on Apr 1, 2008, 19:49:

it was not, but I was not aware about the sawdust - that's why I ask - i remember eggs, water, flower - which are totally harmless - now sawdust or dirt in your eyes - yeah, that's probably bad for your eye health!

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poco says on Apr 1, 2008, 20:11:

I wondered if anyone would post about this quite common custom (part of the culture?). Then again,, maybe they have?

This is a new years day event in the Rural areas and attended by huge crowds. One exception is the revelers are all young and riding motos.

Lots of water and flour.



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