The Europe's biggest street festival, the Notting Hill Carnival will flood back in London's Notting Hill this August to make the West London streets alive with the lip-smacking Caribbean food, dynamic sound systems and millions of carnival-goers.
Since 1966, annually takes place on August Bank Holiday, the carnival began its journey as a small local festival set up by the Notting Hill's West Indian community, and now its surprisingly turned into the foremost celebration of its kind.
Vibrant with multi-coloured costumes, spread over twenty miles, the Notting Hill Carnival in London features quite a few food stands offering a huge variety of hallmark Caribbean food, over 40 animated sound systems, thousands of supportive volunteers and millions of carnival-lovers.
A large number of revellers from every corner of the world yearly attend this thought-provoking street carnival in London's most attractive area.
The Notting Hill Carnival in London generally starts off on Saturday with an exciting steel band competition; Sunday is used for various children-oriented activities, and actual parade takes place on Bank Holiday Monday.
The carnival parade usually starts on Great Western Road then vibrantly progresses towards Chepstow Road, Westbourne Grove, and Ladbroke Grove.
Notting Hill Carnival in London brings a healthy choice of time-honoured Caribbean food to flavour, including patties, jerk chicken, curries, fried plantain, etc.
The carnival provides the perfect introduction to jerk chicken, rice and peas and rum punch along with the fine taste of other mouth-watering cuisines.
The music is at the heart of this spectacular carnival, playing everything from traditional to contemporary music, counting Soca & Calypso, R&B, Dub, House, Funk, Reggae and much more.
With a series of Caribbean food stalls, loads of amazing floats, sounds of the long-established steel drum bands, masses of substantial sound systems, millions of keen folks; the Notting Hill Carnival in London is undoubtedly the Europe's most amazing street festival.