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SAMBA SCHOOLS IN Rio De Janeiro vied for the title of the year’s best dancers at the all night Carnival parade at the city’s Sambadrome.
Thousands of dancers streamed through the Sambadrome in elaborate costumes kitted out with headdresses depicting local fauna in Cuiaba, like ant eaters, armadillos and snakes.
The Sambadrome parades are the highlight of Rio’s six-daylong Carnival extravaganza, which also includes hundreds of block parties which attract hundreds of thousands of costumed revelers.
The results of the contest will be announced later in the week and Carnival wraps up for the year tomorrow.
- Additional reporting from Associated Press.
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The Carnival is like a photographers dream, the place is absolutely awash with colour. Rio always gets the plaudits but the carnivals in Salvador, Bahia and Florinapolis are just as big and colourful.
The organisers of our St.Patrick’s Day parades would do well to take a look at it and take inspiration. Watching tacky floats with advertisements for butchers and book shops doesn’t hold a match to how they do a parade in Brazil. I’ve nothing against local businesses, I just want to see a good show.
True, but it doesn’t rain in Brazil like it does here. Imagine all that South American finery soaked in cold rain. The colours wouldn’t look so bright on a grey Irish day or a dark misty Irish night. I think we do very well considering our climate.
Dem’s wharri call wimmins
Looks like an amazing show!
And we raven about st Patrick !!!!
Never more.
Cover up ladies, youll catch you death out there.
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