Saturday afternoon and evening the 2018 carnival in Puerto Plata ended with a spectacular parade and performances.
65 groups from almost every city of the province participated in the festival.
At the final party, tens of thousands of visitors showed up.
At around 4 PM each carnival group presented their spectacular shows on the raised stage on the Malecón.
They were all dressed up fantastic and colorful and they gave spectacular spectacular dance shows.
Carnival Puerto Plata
Carnival Puerto Plata
It showed they had been practicing for months for the dance show and a lot of time had been spend to manufacture the clothing.
For all 65 groups it took almost until nine o'clock in the evening for the dance shows.
Then followed performances of the music bands Carosa the Altica and Vakero.
But even after this it still didn't stop because of the loud music from the many cars parked near the Malecón.
Many kept on dancing and drinking until the early morning.