Lakeside is bracing for its own brand of Mardi Gras mayhem as thousands of local and visiting revelers let down their hair for 12 straight days of Carnaval festivities kicking off this weekend.
Chapala’s biggest celebration of the year blasts into action on Friday, February 10 with a rollicking after-dark parade through the center of town segueing into the opening party at the Carnaval 2012 fairgrounds inside La Cristiania Park. The parade initiates at the Lienzo Charro arena opposite the Pemex gas station, following Avenida Madero and Paseo Ramon Corona to the gates of the park. The announced starting time is 7 p.m., although delays of one hour or more have been common in past years.
Once the paraders jam into the fairgrounds, Carnaval’s madcap Rey Feo (Ugly King) will take up his scepter to fire up spirits, presiding over the Entierro del Mal Humor (burial of ill-temper) represented by a cardboard coffin obliterated in a blaze of noisy firecrackers.
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