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Carnival is a huge blowout everywhere in the DR, but especially so in La Vega
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; the entire city turns out for the parade and every corner and park is trans-
formed into a combination impromptu concert and dance party. Look out for the whips
when dancing with costumed devils. Garish, colorful, baroque and elaborately and
painstakingly made outfits - capes, demonic masks with bulging eyes and pointed teeth -
are worn by marauding groups of revelers.
