Carnival in Tenerife

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Tenerife Carnival 2007

Tenerife carnival has got to be on everyone’s ‘must do’ list, even for those non party people, the sheer spectacle of the queens dresses, costing thousands of Euros each, the infectious gaiety of the people in fancy dress, the whole mad party atmosphere that goes on all night for days on end means that this has to be experienced at least once in a lifetime.

The men from Tenerife take great delight in dressing as women for the slightest excuse and carnival is the biggest excuse of all, some of these are solid, hairy, heavily made up ‘women’ with falsies and fishnet stockings, others take the whole thing far more seriously and spend a fortune on their exotically beautiful costumes, handmade boots and make up that would make any movie starlet preen with delight.

The theme for next years carnival is discussed and decided as soon as this year’s is over, dates are announced for the various competitions, parades, fireworks and finishing spectacle, months before it happens and yet it always runs late. When carnival fever hits Tenerife nothing happens on time, so what’s new you ask? Alright in carnival season (which isn’t just in Santa Cruz, many other towns have only slightly lesser versions, so for the real enthusiast it can last for several weeks) things just take much longer than usual.