4 million people throng New Orleans every year in January to participate in the “World’s Greatest Free party on Earth – Mardi Gras Festival”. The festival is unique and some find it bizzare and fun. Apart from the festivities, there are many things to do in New Orleans like try out Creole food, shopping, sight-seeing and more. For more information click here: http://goo.gl/vh2y8B

1. Mardi Gras – New Orleans

2. 4 million people throng New Orleans every year in January
to participate in the
“World’s Greatest Free party on Earth – Mardi Gras Festival”.

3. Chandrashekar Srinivasan
The festivities
begin in the early
January and end
on Mardi Gras
day also called as
Fat Tuesday, the
day before Ash
Wednesday and
Lent.

4. Sammy Said
Festivities start in
New Orleans each
year on January 6,
the Twelfth Night
feast of the
Epiphany -- the
day, tradition has
it, that the three
kings first visited
Jesus Christ. Mardi
Gras, French for
Fat Tuesday, is the
day-long highlight
of the season

5. Joy Pecknold, Passport blog editor
Reach for the stars, more beads please
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During the 12-day
period leading up
to Mardi Gras, the
parades are held in
the four-parish
area of
Orleans, Jefferson,
St. Tammany and
St. Bernard.
Competition for
the best floats is
friendly but fierce!

6. All the jazz, blues
and Dixieland
bands in the state
congregate in
New Orleans to
accompany the
festivities on street
corners and at bars,
hotels, parties and
fancy masked balls.
Not to forget the
sumptuous Creole
food, the original
NOLA food.

7. During Mardi Gras, all of the businesses and
roads are practically shut down--people walk
everywhere and meeting new friends. People
are dressed in crazy costumes, kids are
everywhere, and they love it!

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•There are plenty of Things to do
and attractions to see in New
Orleans.
•Visit our website and plan your
trip and create your own itinerary.