I am writing to you on our last day in Brazil, the land of the tropical fruit and the thong.
The Carnival(or as I call it- the time when all the women with the perfect ass come out from hiding) is now over and I must admit it was a pretty amazing experience.
The carnival itself is a big celebration lasting for 4 days. Its a combination between Purim, Independence day and the gay parade but in much bigger scale....a lot of parties in the middle of the street, band preforming on trucks across the city, everybody is drunk, half naked or dressed in costumes...a lot of drag queens....and drugs....
The main event in Rio is the Samba parade that takes place in the Sambodermo(a huge and long complex designed for about 50,000 spectators). It`s a 4 days competition between the Samba schools(each day 6 groups are competing) and at the end there is the famous champions parade of the six best groups. We were able to get tickets both to the first day(cheep tickets at the far locals sector) and the champions parade(at the second row!!!). The event itself starts at 21:00 and goes on until 6:00 - each group contains about 5000 dancers and marches for about an hour and a half...so its a long night... and we have a lot of photos as you probably can imagine...
Each Samba group chooses a theme to its parade and supposed to tell a story with its costumes and the different constructions. It was really fun at the locals sector because everybody danced and knew the lyrics of the songs and really amazing to sit close at the champions parade. At the end of which some of the dancers threw their costumes to the crowd and we managed to catch quite a few...
if only we had room in the mochila...
A few movies....
Another thing that we did in Rio was going to a football game at the Maracana stadium. Its a huge stadium built to contain up to 200,000 people and it was really really fun (though I have no mean of comparison due to the fact it was my first time at a football game ever).
We were lucky to get tickets to a Derby at the first day of the carnival so it was pretty hectic. It was a match between Botafogo and Vasco. We were seated at the Botafogo sector. The Botafogo is their "Beitar Jerusalem" and its known for its devoted, crazy and sometimes violent fans. After learning the complicated and deep lyrics of the songs (BO-TA-FOOOO-GOOO-GOOO-GOOO!!!!!!) we blended right in...some of us better then the rest... We won 3:2....
So thats it for Brazil...
We have a flight later today to La Paz, Bolivia....
with much hope not to get some stomach disease and return with our appendix still intact...
(just kidding mom)
so keep in touch
and CONGRATULATIONS TO SARIT & ROI!!!!! MAZAL TOV!!!!!
dina & loni
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