Basel carnival kicks off with "Morgestraich" lantern parade
Switzerland's biggest carnival kicked off in the early hours of Monday, as costumed revelers lit up the dark streets of Basel, with many lanterns dedicated to AI and climate change. teleSUR
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00:00 Switzerland's biggest carnival kick off in the early hours of Monday as costume revelers
00:05 lit up the dark streets of Basel with many lanterns dedicated to eye and climate change.
00:13 The three-day event, one of Europe's best-known carnivals, transforms the city streets into
00:18 a river of painted lanterns, colorful masks and creative costumes flowing to the sound
00:24 of pipes and drums.
00:26 Tens of thousands of people got up before dawn to watch the lantern-lit Morgastreich
00:33 procession in which some participants wore lanterns on their heads.
00:37 At 4 a.m. local time, the lights were turned off in Switzerland's third-biggest city
00:44 and the drum majors yelled "Morgastreich vorwärts marsch" giving the forward march
00:50 order to set off in the local dialect of German.
00:54 This shows the topic of climate change, although artificial intelligence, fake news, the 150th
01:00 anniversary of the Basel Zoo, the movie Barbie and wars around the world were also on the
01:06 agenda.
01:07 Well, soon it's going to be Morgastreich.
01:15 This means that the light will go dark in the whole of the city and short before that
01:22 we actually start the march by shouting "Morgastreich vorwärts marsch" and on that the light should
01:30 go down and everyone starts with the same march.
01:33 And I heard that this carnival is really famous and because of the UNESCO status, so yeah,
01:39 that's why I wanted to see how it's beautiful, how it's big, how... yeah, that's why I'm
01:48 here.