Tenerife Carnival
by DestinationTenerife After some pretty heavy rain, the wind dropped, the sun came out, the weather alert ended and, as was hoped, thankfully, the unusually strong winter storms this weekend mostly stayed north and passed Tenerife without incident. We did wonder, if there might be some snow on Teide, but recent photos and webcam images seem to discount it. The forecast is cloudy, with a chance of rain for Wednesday and Thursday in Tenerife, so lets not be too smug. 
Meanwhile, this weekend, on Sunday, February 17th, both carnival parades on the south of the island, in Los Cristianos and Los Gigantes, were able to go ahead as planned, with plenty of blue sky and bare flesh in evidence:
Los Gigantes carnaval have a novel new website. It takes a while for it to load, but once it does, just click on any of the "polaroid snapshots" and it will pop up in larger size. Use forward and back arrows to flick through the pile.
TenerifeSur say that more than a 1,000 took part in Los Gigantes' main carnaval parade that was a show of rhythm and colour, from 5 p.m. Sunday. As with Los Cristianos, they were giving their sardine a sendoff on Monday night.
LosGigantes.com also have photos 
of Los Gigantes Carnival Queens 2008.
Vida de Sol en Tenerife sent an online postcard after the carnaval parade in Los Cristianos yesterday. More photos from Los Cristianos Carnaval
Meanwhile, for reports from Puerto de la Cruz Carnaval, you need go no further than husband an wife double-act, Jack and Andy (Andrea) Montgomery's blogs, where (currently) recent posts will tell you all about their carnaval capers.
La Opinión de Tenerife show us one tantalizing photo of the classic cars on the final Sunday morning of Santa Cruz Carnaval and another image here, showing the extent of the massive crowd in the Plaza de Candelaria during that day's Carnaval de Día (Daytime Carnaval) events, that were introduced as a novelty this year and that have been declared as being a total success.
There are a few images here too, but those who read Spanish may enjoy this article, Recuerdos históricos y tradicionales del Carnaval.
Barring any more photos, videos, etc., that we might find from now on, that really is it for Carnaval 2008 and for another year, although, there has already been a news item saying that Tenerife wants its own version of La Palmas Drag Queen Gala next year - or, at least something "specially dedicated to gays".
There's talk of it being a Rey del Carnaval (King of Carnaval).
(Taken from the article at Secret Tenerife)