Feasts and festivals are a major part of Sardinian life and barely a week seems to go by without a village somewhere on the island finding an excuse to throw a party. In Aggius the major festivities take place in August, when the streets fill with musicians and dancers (all of whom who seem to have a near obsessive love for the music of Carlos Santana), and October when the single men of the village take their opportunity to find a partner and er, well I’m sure you get the idea.
However between 31st January and the 5th February the nearby town of Tempio Pausania hosts a carnival that ranks among the Party Seven of all the Galluran festivals. A chance for the locals to pull on giant papier-mache heads, neck a few Camparis and party like it’s mille nove cento novanta-nove.
I have to confess I’ve yet to experience this particular festival myself – January and February in Sardinia generally bringing the sort of weather that makes your testicles retreat back into your body. But what keeps willing me back to the carnival’s website several times a year is the spectacular – not to mention downright creepy - sight of tuk-tuks disguised to resemble 10 ft high devils and men dressed as giant jellyfish (possibly).
Well, that and the pictures high-kicking young ladies wearing barely enough lycra to cover their tuppence.
;-)
Visit the Tempio Carnival site
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