MILLIONS OF PEOPLE watched the sequin-clad performers atop the multicoloured floats of this year’s two-day Carnival festival in Rio de Janeiro.
Thirteen samba schools, which develop their own theme and costumes for the Carnival, paraded through the city’s Sambadrome before crowds of tens of thousands. The festival organisers said that the schools are social clubs which represent different parts of the city, particularly the favela slums.
Rio hosts the world’s largest Carnival festival, while there are around 300 smaller festival parties throughout the city’s neighbourhoods throughout January and Carnival. Brazil’s second-largest Carnival event was held in Salvador, where former McGyver star Richard Dean Anderson was the special guest.
Check out the action at Rio’s Sambadrome from today and yesterday:
Some of the revellers paid homage to Brazil’s sporting heritage – and its hosting of the World Cup in 2014:
(Video via imenes)
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