Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday. It refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. It is also called as Shrove Tuesday, Pancake's Day, Dollar day.

Mardi Gras draws millions of fun-seekers to New Orleans every year. In New Orleans, they celebrate on a grand scale, with masked balls and colorful parades.

Carnival is an important celebration in most of Europe, except in Ireland and the United Kingdom where the festival is called "shrovetide" ending on Shrove Tuesday, and pancake's are the tradition.

French royals, feather-covered showgirls, Energizer bunnies, painted clowns, masked lions are found them all in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras.

Venice is home to one of the most famous Carnival celebrations in the world. The Carnival of Venice was first recorded in 1268. In Sweden the celebration is called Fettisdagen.

In Spain it's called 'Carnaval'. In Slovenia it is called Kurentovanje. The celebration of Mardi Gras in Germany is called Karneval, Fastnacht, or Fasching. Fastnacht means "Eve of the Beginning of the Fast".