PHOTOS: Celebrate Belize Carnival!

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7 September 2012

Belize’s September Celebrations kick off this weekend! Can’t make it to the party? No worry, photographer Lebawit Lily Girma caught these shots of the festivities.

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It’s Carnival time in Belize—better known as the September Celebrations! From steel drum bands to traditional Mestizo foods to Mayan costumes, this three-week-long festival is a celebration of traditional Caribbean culture and Belizean independence.

While we can’t be there to join the party, we can live vicariously through these shots of all the fun—and start planning our attendance for next year!
 

Traditional parade costumes

Traditional parade costumes
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A Mestizo dancer, of mixed Spanish and Maya heritage, shows off her Carnival costume at the Orange Walk parade.


 

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Lebawit Lily Girma

A freelance travel writer and photographer based in Washington DC, Lily Girma has travelled and lived abroad from age one. In 2008, she left behind a law career to follow her passion. Since then, her work has appeared in various outlets, including the New York Times Magazine, Lonely Planet and the UK Guardian. Lily is currently packing her bags for Belize to begin her next dream assignment.