CARNAVAL-MARDI GRAS

February is the independence month and carnival is celebrated along, colored customes representing different tribes; TAIMASCARO is the one originally from Puerto Plata.

Puerto Plata:

The Puerto Plata carnival is one of the most recent, being different from the others mainly in costumes, highlighting the shoreline city they wanted to focus on giving primacy to the sea, so their costumes include shells , snails and representations of animals and mythological beings from the sea.