Carnival in Alicante

On Saturday, we headed down to Rambla Street to check out the “Disabte Rambler” carnival event. This is the day when people dress up in different costumes and have a party on Rambla Street. We did up a costume and prepared to venture out into the madness of the “Disabte Rambler”.

Ray and Shelley dressed for the Carnival

We headed to the bus stop to wait for our bus. When the bus arrived it was full of people dressed in crazy costumes including yellow ducks, ninjas and kitty cats. We got on a street near the Rambla and met some of our friends at a local pub before heading down Rambla Street.

Ray, Mike, Liz, Felipe and Shelley before heading to the “Rambler”.

We headed towards the “Rambler” after having a refreshment to explore the carnival. Along the way, there were large crowds of people in costumes having meals or walking towards the carnival.

People in costumes having a meal at one of the restaurants along the way to the Rambler

We were amazed at the thousands of people in the Rambla Street area. There were costumes of all different kinds and every imaginable type.

View of Rambla Street on Carnival evening

We walked through the crowd admiring some of the unique costumes. People were dressed in elaborate costumes some which must have been expensive and time-consuming to make. We would stop and get a picture taken with some of the people in costume.

Ray with Carnival drag “Queen”
Shelley and Felipe with a group of carnival “girls”
Elaborate costume of the girl in Exorcist on bed which she could move throughout the carnival

Entire families would dress up in a theme and be in costume. We watched an entire family of candy walk by.

A large group dressed at “Congruitos” a Spanish popular candy

Even NASA and Donald Trump were present in costume at the carnival.

Group of people dressed as Nasa space explorers

There was a group of people who did a themed costume of Donald Trump. One was dressed as Donald trump, others were dressed up as a wall and others were dressed as Mexicans. When they would see another person dressed as a Mexican or immigrant they would form a wall and Donald would ask for their papers. We were even stopped at the “wall”

Donald Trump and his wall in the carnival stopping Felipe from passing.

Other costumes were silly and fun like the man in the box.

Costume of a man in a cardboard box

There were two stages set up on Rambla Street, one at each end of the street. They were playing live music and people were watching and dancing away.

Live music on stage on Rambla Street

We walked through the crowd from one end of Rambla to the other and then headed towards home. It was a very enjoyable evening and lots of fun. Next year we will be doing an elaborate costume to take part in the event.

“Adios y que tenga un grand dia”