Carnival and …

At the weekend I went to the North of Grande-Terre and to Pointe-à-Pitre for the carnival.

My friends from Switzerland felt like being home as we drove on narrow hill roads and through deep valleys up to the most northern point of Guadeloupe. At the steep coast I was remind at my hiking tours through Cornwell.

But we saw also large sugar can fields and ruins of old windmills. Finally we cooled down in a deep cutting bay.

Before the beginning of the carnival parade we watched the underwater world in an Aquarium. As we were a bit tired we spent our time sitting and watching the animals. This patience became a complete success. Two sleeping sharks got up of the ground and swam a round. A big tortoise left its cave and came up for breathing and a fish became swollen as a ball.

At the parade the actors danced and sang with enthusiasm stimulated by their grand groups. They drummed for example on big plastic barrels and sounded in shell horns. I was astonished that the people were only watching the spectacle. One reason for that, there were breaks while cars were running or nothing happened, so it was hard to get in a good mood.

But at the night parade we had much fun and swinged all the time.