Brazil is a country of festivals! Whether it’s celebration, cuisine, culture, or fancy costumes for street fun, Brazilians are docks when it comes to how to party! Indeed, festivals in Brazil are held all year round and are famous all over the world. It would be logical to think that the carnival is exclusively the prerogative of Rio de Janeiro. But the thing is, it isn’t! The whole country participates in the carnival. Both homeless people and dogs in the streets walk in carnival costumes. Brazilian Carnival Carnaval do Brasil is an internationally renowned tour of Brazilian popular culture. It is an annual festival held in many cities in Brazil 40 days before Easter. The carnival is not just a colorful procession with dances and drums, it is the Indian festival of colors of Holi, and the gay parade, and the Bavarian Oktoberfest, and the festival of cowboys, and the carnival of the Amazonian Indians. Carnival is so important for Brazilians that the year is divided into two parts: before and after the carnival … After the New Year, everyone in Brazil will be preparing for the carnival. Nothing special happens in January and February. For Brazilians, 2019 starts after the carnival!
Carnival. Rio de Janeiro The most famous festival in Brazil is the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, which is held annually before fasting for five days. More than 2 million people visit it! As noted above, the whole of Brazil participates in the carnival: both small villages and cities. Everyone can participate in carnival events. To make the holiday more fun, men put on women’s clothes, and women put on a set of sequins and feathers. Here, at a festival in Brazil (photo below), you can put aside your everyday worries and problems and escape into a fantasy world for a few days, enjoy samba. Carnival processions begin during Easter, Friday through Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday. Huge parades are a demonstration of complex costumes, a procession of drummers and dancers along the streets of the city. Every year the parades become livelier thanks to the samba school at the festival in Brazil. Since 1984, when the Sambodrome was built, presentations of various schools of bright dance have been held. An endless party filled with vibrant colors, samba music and intricate costumes. Countless musical genres, including samba and maracuta, accompany the celebration. On the streets during the carnival are a must: regular food, drink and fun! Tourists attending the carnival are invited to join in the fun: free open-air concerts and masquerade balls are held throughout the city. With Samba as soundtrack and caipirinhas in hand (made from lime juice, sugar, ice and kashaki), you can’t help but feel the spirit of the party! … (read more)
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