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Goa Carnival Festival

Goa Carnival FestivalQuick Facts
Celebrated in : Goa
Capital : Panaji
Festival Time : February
Duration : 3 Days
Presided by : King Momo
Highlights : Colourful processions and healthy ambience totted by great fun and frolic

Goa Carnival - A Musical Extravaganza
The best time to travel to Goa is during February because this is the time when one witnesses Goa getting decked up for the carnival. Goa carnival is an eagerly awaited occasion where one forgets his worries and tensions and simply plunges into merriment and joy-making for three whole days.
Goa carnival is all about fun and frolic. Colorful processions and lavish floats parade the streets. Singing, dancing and masked people mark the uproarious and flamboyant Goan celebration. Most of the countries have carnivals but Goa carnival stands apart as the people of Goa have inculcated different items in the carnival that makes us experience the different shades of Goa.
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The carnival in Goa had its birth during the era of King Momo. He ushered in the Goa carnival just before the Lent season (Lent is the period of fasting and penance in the Christian calendar and corresponding somewhat to the Mohammedan fast before Ramzan Id). This festival of Goa usually starts off on Sabado Gordo (Fat Saturday) and concludes on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday)-the eve of Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of the season of Lent.
The streets are crowded for three days and it is nothing but a carnival of colors, a carnival of fun and a carnival of joy for the people of Goa as well as the tourists who make it a point to plan their Goa tour during that time.

Goa Carnival FestivalAmong all the festivities and feasts of Goa Carnival and Shigmo are the most boisterous ones with great acclaim and enthusiasm anticipated by the mass with great fervour and excitement. Carnival in Goa is round-the-clock 3-day festival of color, song and music, providing a healthy amusement for all, young and old. For three days and nights, the fabled king Momo takes over the state and the streets become active with colour. The week long event is a time of festivity and enjoyment. The carnival renders an amusing aura in which everyone sings, laughs and dances on the tunes of music.

Street Plays, songs, dances, and impromptu travesties jeer and display their dances and songs before a crazy and amendable audience. The popular cradle songs and nursery rhymes with colourful attires worn make the atmosphere as well streets more jovial. Innumerable competitions and cultural functions are held right through the three days. The contestants wear colorful costumes and designer masks. In such fun-filled surroundings people smear color on each other, instead of the flour, eggs, fruit and water that used to be used in past.
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The carnival is not celebrated anywhere else in India and was in diminution even in Goa in the past few years of Portuguese rule. Its resurgence with the freeing of Goa, and a hike to its tourism attracted thousands of tourists to Goa from all over the world every year!

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