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To get the feeling of Mardi Gras year-round, visit Mardi Gras World, the largest float designing and building facility in the world. Here more than 80 percent of the floats that journey down New Orleans' streets during the Carnival season are designed and built.

Begun in 1947 by float designer and builder Blaine Kern, Mardi Gras World provides visitors with the opportunity to don authentic Mardi Gras costumes and tour enormous warehouses filled with floats. The tour includes a short video and guide who is quite knowledgeable about Mardi Gras history and customs. And for a taste of Mardi Gras, king cake and piping hot New Orleans coffee are served.

During the tour, visitors learn about the many traditions surrounding Mardi Gras parades, balls and music, as well as the intricacies of float designing and building. Mardi Gras floats began rumbling down New Orleans streets in 1837 with mule-drawn carriages. Today the tradition continues with sophisticated mega-floats, which hold more than 200 masked riders and are lit with fiber optic cables and laser lights.

Float by Steve Phillips

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Waiting for a pole float to disappear in the margins.

float on... by Steve

don't you worry, we all float on...

by skinny bunny

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float by j-Elly-FisH

Beach fun. The float is being pulled by a speedboat.

float plane by Cyber 5

Rose Parade 2015-8175 by Karen Bruechle

Photos of WVU Float in 2016 Rose Parade

Aomori Nebuta Floats: The axe by Tom Perry

Float being pushed around the ctiy at the Aomori Nebuta Festival, August 2008

Float by Jordan Storey

floats 025 by John Vonderlin

Goa Carnival 2019 Sanvordem floats by joegoauk16

Sanvordem Curchorem Carnaval floats parade on 4.3.2019

minister mla Nilesh Cabral

More Carnaval floats pics and videos visit here

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Floats parade organised by Centro Social Anjo Custodio (CSAC) in association with Curchorem-Cacora Municipal Council (CCMC)

float by tnwy

Float by Alex Ellison

East London.

Float building 2006 by Ann Claire Kay

The Ryde Carnival Float being built it was a a tree built on a wire and wooden frame, covered in papier mache, and then spray painted and varnished the speakers were built into the tree.

Float by Shreya's Labyrinth

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Float by Farid Wajdi

Float perform at Karebosi Basketball stadium, Makassar.

Rose_Float.jpg by Jonathan Alcorn

Dec 29, 2007 - AZUSA , CA, USA - Final preparations take place for decorating The Los Angeles Dodgers Rose Parade float Saturday Dec. 29, 2007, in Azusa, Calif for the Pasadena Rose Parade on New Year's Day.

2010 Extreme Fun Float by Matt Huff