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Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Drums, Drag Queens and The Beatles

A travel blog entry by mossireland

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... with a cool box, and unlike England the beers are cheap, none of this festival 4.50 a pint lark.

So we went to a few blocos, The Drag Queen one was my favourite, of course. It went right along the beach front with the Drag Queens leading the way. And people in the apartments above sprayed water on everyone to keep us cool.

The other stand out Bloco was Bloco Do Sargento Pimenta - Sergent Pepper Bloco. ...

The morning on Cocacabana Beach then CARNIVAL baby

A travel blog entry by cathy_bianchini

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... and the arena is 1 km long. Makes you feel for the ladies in sky high shoes that samba the entire way down there and not even in a straight line - they go from one side of the arena to the other so they can shimmy in front of each grandstand several times. (Grace, you would have loved the shoes!)


Because the show continued all night! I have split this update to the next ...

“Favela crew coming through!”

A travel blog entry by rachnits

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... and therefore also in the thick of all the opportunists who cash in on Rio Carnival every year.

We could just imagine the huge piles of loot filling up the favela from that first night (..and the influx of travel insurance claims!). It made us feel a little better to know that Brazilians are not immune to this either – my friend Jojo’s brother had his phone stolen too. And the problem is because people know that sooner or ...

Soms zit het mee...

A travel blog entry by micheleen

... Theresa naar het centrum bracht, en ik herkende de wijk nog precies; de boekenstallen, de oude winkelstraten met de gezellige koffietentjes en ik ben ook nog even binnengelopen bij de zaak waar we onze t-shirts hebben laten drukken om te zien of er nog iets leuks tussen zat. Toen hing het helemaal vol met WK shirts, nu voornamelijk Carnival spullen. Ik ben lekker de wijk doorgeslenterd en uiteindelijk niet gevonden waar ik de stad voor ...

Life is a Beach!

A travel blog entry by jingjingjanet

... one enters or exits. Now this may sound scary, but the fact is only 5% of the favela population are involved with the drug trafficking business, the rest of the people are just regular working class citizens trying to make a better living for themselves much like anywhere else in the world. The world renowned Rio carnival are prepared by the people of the favelas, the dancers come from the favela samba schools, and of course once in a while, the favelas produce another ...

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