Some Places Mardi Gras is Celebrated:
New Orleans, LA (Biggest Celebration in the country): This site includes all the information needed when planning a trip to New Orleans. It lists the best hotels, restaurants and shops. It also provides a good amount of information on Mardi Gras and how to plan a trip to Mardi Gras. This site includes a visitors guide as well.
Mardi Gras in Alabama: This site includes a variety of information on the Mardi Gras celebration in Alabama. Mobile was the first place that Mardi Gras parades were held. The site gives information on where the celebration is and what to see and do while you are there.
Mardi Gras in Pensacola, Fla.: This site gives information on the Mardi Gras celebrations in Pensacola. It includes a schedule of the parade and it's times. The best place to view the parade and other events in the area (such a crawfish eating contest).
Brazilian Mardi Gras: This site includes information on the festivities in Brazil, how they differ, why you should visit and other things to do while you are there.
Mardi Gras in Mississippi: This site offers information on Mardi Gras in south Mississippi. It boasts of its more family oriented environment.
General Information
Pictures of Mardi Gras: This site shows pictures of Mardi Gras on Bourbon street in New Orleans. Pictures of the massive crowds, people waiting to catch beads and throws and pictures of people simply hanging out on the balconys waiting for the parades.
Carnival (aka. Mardi Gras) Facts: This site is a fact sheet on the basic information on Mardi Gras. It covers topics like- What is Mardi Gras, King cakes, Parades, Fat Tuesday, Balls and Dances and Carnival Do's and Don'ts.
Mardi Gras Terminology: This site provides information on what the different words of Mardi Gras mean. Two examples of words defined are King cake and throws.
The Recipe for Kingcakes: This site gives information on what a King cake is, where you can buy one and how you can make your own at home.
The Encyclopedia Definition of Mardi Gras: This site gives an encyclopedia definition of Mardi Gras. It points out facts such as- Mardi Gras is celebrated for a full week before Lent. From this you can know that each year's festivities will take place the week before Lent begins.
Information on Mardi Gras 2000
Mardi Gras Central: This site provides a message board and a question and answer section on Mardi Gras. It also gives a countdown to the next Mardi Gras and a link for buying King cakes.
Useful Tricks and Tips for Mardi Gras in New Orleans: This site gives helpful hints for the visitor in New Orleans. Everything from where to park, riding in cabs, bathrooms, catching the parades, laws, walking the streets and even weather!
Carnival Activities for Kids!: This site provides information on activities in New Orleans that are made for the entire family. Activities include a costume workshop, King cake Ball and a "Family Day."
Information on the Parades: This site provides information on the Parade schedules and the various parade names and how they differ.
Louisiana Parade Schedule: This site gives the parade schedule for New Orleans, Metarie, Westbank, St. Bernard.
Mardi Gras Recipes: This site has recipes from famous New Orleans' dishes. Most items are traditionally served at Mardi Gras time. Recipes include things like King cake, Crawfish Ettouffee, Crawfish or Shrimp Boil and Oyster Bread.
Mardi Gras Traditions
Colors of Mardi Gras: This site provides information on the colors most often seen in Mardi Gras. This site also includes the color history and tells what each color means.
History of the Kingcake: This site provides information on what a King cake is, why it is traditional at Mardi Gras time and where you can get one.
Mardi Gras Music: This site gives a description of Mardi Gras music, how it sounds and where you will hear it. It lists old favorites such as "Carnival Time" and "Mardi Gras Mambo."
Beads, Doubloons and Cups of Mardi Gras: This site tells all about the throws of Mardi Gras (Beads, Doubloons, Cups). It tells what each is and how you can get them.
The Parades: This site gives brief information on the parades. It also tells about what they are like and the Krewes that put them on.
Mardi Gras Parades
A ranking of the downtown parades in New Orleans: This site gives a description of each of the parades held in downtown New Orleans. It also rates which are the biggest and the best.
The Bacchus Parade: This site tells all about the Bacchus parade. It provides the parade route and time, the history of this parade and the theme for this year's parade. From this site you can view the floats and the marching bands that will be in Bacchus and the King of this year's parade. It also provides information on the Bacchus Krewe.
Description of serveral different Krewes: This site gives a description of several different Krewes in Mardi Gras, what each one does and a brief history on each.
More information on the throws off the floats: This site provides more information on the throws. It tells what they are, how you can get them and provides a brief history.
Information and Pictures of Floats: This site tells about the floats that appear in the parades and which parades have the larger floats. It also provides a picture of what the floats look like.
Mardi Gras History
Indians of Mardi Gras: This site provides detailed information on the history of the Mardi Gras Indians and how Mardi Gras started.
See original Mardi Gras costumes: From this site you can see pictures of original Mardi Gras costumes from a krewe in 1914.
New Orleans and Carnival: This site provides information on New Orlean's history and how it affected the Carnival celebration over the years. One example it provides is the Rex parade, when it came to New Orleans and where people went to see it then as opposed to now.
Mardi Gras in the French Quarter: This site provides information on the differences between Carnival and Mardi Gras. It also gives information on the Mardi Gras celebration in the French Quarter (an area in downtown New Orleans). It especially gives information on Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street.
A full Mardi Gras History: This site gives the full, detailed history of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It provides history dated back to colonial times and the founding of New Orleans.
Good Websites for Various Information:
Mardi Gras Mambo: This site provides basic information on Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It also provides information on parades, Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, in the Garden District and on Bourbon Street. It also provides information on Swamp Tours within the area.
Mardi Gras 2000: This site tells it all. It gives information on everything including parade schedules, King cakes, Mardi Gras history, future dates, costumes, pictures, Mardi Gras lingo, Mardi Gras shopping, a restaurant guide and even a complete visitors guide.
A Native's view to Mardi Gras: This site provides information on the parade routes, the best places to watch them from, the dates of the Carnival season and the Do's and Don'ts of Mardi Gras.
Carnival New Orleans: This site holds a wide variety of information. It tells about everything from the history of Mardi Gras to Parades and the madness found in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time. It also provids pictures and even a Virtual Tour!
Everything on Mardi Gras: This site provides a message board, a photo album and a ring of other good Mardi Gras links.
Review of Important Facts:
Test your Mobile Mardi Gras Knowledge: This site is a "Mobile, AL Mardi Gras Quiz." It is intended to test your knowledge on Mardi Gras facts.
Mardi Gras Safety: This site covers all aspects of being safe when attending Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It includes information on how to avoid being pick pocketed or mugged and what to do if someone is following you. It also provides information on protecting valuables, luggage and your hotel room number.
Mardi Gras Basics: This site again covers the basics of Mardi Gras information. It covers everything from what and when Mardi Gras is to how to plan for your trip. It also provides safety information.
More Mardi Gras Terminology: This is another site providing information and definitions on words that might not be familiar to a first time visitor of Mardi Gras.
More Fun Facts: This site includes fun, odd facts on Mardi Gras, such as - how many King cakes and beads were sold, How much trash was collected and what was photographed the most. It also gives information on some new traditions at Mardi Gras in New Orleans.