BRAZIL’S famous Carnival kicks into high gear on Sunday as the city prepares to hold sumptuous multimillion-dollar parades amid what is billed as the Greatest Party on Earth.
A light rain did nothing to dampen the festive spirit on Saturday, serving more as a refreshing cool-down for bodies worked into a sweat as they danced and gyrated at the numerous ‘blocos,’ or street parties.
The monster of all the blocos, the Bloco Bola Preta, filled the centre of Rio with a motley crowd of up to two million people wearing all manner of garb – or in many cases, little at all.
‘Everybody is mixing here. There’s no class differences. None. Everybody is here with the same plan, to have fun,’ said one young woman sporting Elton John-style oversized yellow sunglasses and a bouffant Afro wig.
Throughout the city, nearly 800,000 tourists, Brazilian and foreign, were taking part in the extravaganza alongside most of Rio’s population of six million, turning the place into a bohemian sprawl buoyed by high-decibel samba music.
Although the focus was on Rio, which holds key parades on Sunday and Monday, the whole nation was letting loose for Carnival.
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