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Meanwhile in the Caribbean......Christmas is close, but that means carnival is coming closer!

If you are a native of the Caribbean or are friends with a Caribbean native, you would know that Christmas is just a pit stop on the way to Carnival, the largest most beautiful display of Caribbean culture, individual to every respective island.

Here is a little run down of the Carnival festivals to come in 2017:

• November 18th - January 8th, 2017

St. Kitts

• Decemeber 26th - January 3rd, 2017

St. Croix (Crucian Christmas Carnival)

• January 1st, 2017

Montserrat | Montserrat Annual Festival

• January 2nd - February 28th, 2017

Aruba

• January 28th & April 23rd, 2017 Tampa, Florida
• February 19th - 28th, 2017

Curacao (Fudeka)

• February 24th - 28th, 2017

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• February 25th - 28th, 2017

Barranquilla, Colombia

• February 27th & 28th, 2017

Panama

• February 27th & 28th, 2017

Trinidad & Tobago | 2016 Schedule

• February 27th & 28th, 2017

Dominica

• February 27th & 28th, 2017

Ecuador

• February 28th, 2017

New Orleans, LA

• February 28th, 2017

Guyana (Mashramani)

• April 15th - April 23rd, 2017

Bacchanal Jamaica

• April 1st - 29th, 2017

St. Thomas (V.I.)

• April 17th - May 3rd, 2017

St. Marteen

• April 29th - May 6th, 2017

Cayman Islands (Batabano)

• May 4th - 6th, 2017 Bahamas Junkanoo (Nassau)

Bahamas Junkanoo (Nassau)

• May 27th, 2017

Atlanta, Georgia

• May 27th, 2017 Orlando, Florida
• May 26th - 28th, 2017 Pheonix, Arizona
• May 27th - 28th, 2017 San Francisco, California
• Jun 1st - 4th, 2017

Columbia, SC (Carolina's Caribbean Culture Festival)

• Jun 2nd - 5th, 2017

Berlin, Germany (Karneval der Kulturen / Carnival of Cultures)

• Jun 29 - Jul 3rd, 2017

Houston, Texas (Houston Caribbean Festival)

• June 16th - 19th, 2017 Bermuda Carnival (Bermuda Heroes Weekend)
• June 17th 2017 (TBD)

Ottawa (Carivibe Festival)

• June 2017 (TBD) Hollywood, CA (Los Angles Culture Festival)
• June 22nd - 25th, 2017 Charleston Carifest, SC
• July 2nd - Aug 2nd 2017

Montreal, Canada (Carifest)

• July 2017 (TBD)

Baltimore/Washington DC ONE Caribbean Carnival

• July 13th - 17th, 2017

Atlantic City, New Jersey

• July 14th - 19th, 2017

St. Lucia (Lucian Carnival)

• July 27th - August 8th, 2017

Nevis (Culturama)

• July 29th 2017

Rotterdam (Zomer Carnival)

• July 22nd, 2017

Jersey City, New Jersey

• July 22nd & 23rd, 2017

Vancouver, BC

• July 28th - Aug 8th, 2017

Antigua

• August 2nd - 6th, 2017

Toronto (Caribana)

• August 2nd - 7th, 2017

Barbados (Crop Over)

• August 3rd - 6th, 2017

Bermuda Cup Match | FB

• August 3rd - 13th, 2017 Anguilla Summer Festival
• August 10th - 15th, 2017

Grenada (Spicemas)

• August 10th -13th, 2017 Jacksonville, Florida
• August 11th -13th, 2017

Detroit, Michigan

• August 12th, 2017

Norfolk, Virginia (Caribfest)

• August 19th, 2017 Chicago, Illinois (Windy City)
• August (TBD) Hartford (Connecticut)
• August 19th, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts

• August (TBD)

Calgary (Carifest), AB, Canada

• August 27th - 28th, 2017

Notting Hill (London, UK)

• August 31 - September 4, 2017 New York (Labor Day)
• October 5th - 9th, 2017 Miami-Broward ONE Carnival, Florida
• November 10th - 20th, 2016

Cayman Pirates Week (Grand Cayman)