Rev­ellers from Ari­ma, Arou­ca and Va­len­cia head­ed to San­gre Grande yes­ter­day to kick off their Car­ni­val Mon­day cel­e­bra­tions.

Thou­sands lined the pave­ments and streets of San­gre Grande from as ear­ly as 3.30 am, as they wait­ed for the 4 am of­fi­cial start to J’Ou­vert.

DJs on trucks pro­vid­ed the mu­sic as mas­quer­aders and spec­ta­tors danced away.

The rev­ellers stayed away from mud and were seen bathed in coloured paint and pow­der.

Po­lice es­ti­mat­ed the crowd to be around 10,000 to 12,000 peo­ple.

Head of the East­ern Di­vi­sion, Snr Supt Christo­pher Pacheco and In­spec­tor Ali­is­ter Kistow, who was in charge of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in the dis­trict, and of­fi­cers kept a watch­ful eye on the fes­tiv­i­ties and re­port­ed an in­ci­dent-free and safe J’Ou­vert.