As anyone knows, samba belongs to Brazil and especially Rio just like pizza and pasta to Italy. Unfortunately we could not schedule our travels to Rio during the carnival, but we decided visit a samba school during a rehearsal for the big event.
We went to visit the Salgueiro one of the most successful samba schools in Rio. Just like everything here, events started close to midnight when little children should long be in bed sleeping - but not in Rio, here the young generation is also getting fit and ready for the carnival:
The night began with separate "shows" by individual performers:
- some funny:
-others sexy:
but all very entertaining and spectacularly dancing:
In the break between rehearsals, I decided to get to "familiarize myself with the locals"...:
During the entire time the drums were reverberrating in our head from the band beating literally hundreds of drums from the balcony:
I am afraid that even though we got handouts with the lyrics of the carnival anthem of Salgueiro and even though we listened to it again and again during the practice, we still did not learn it...so we might have to go back...
After the break the scene changed a bit, as the practice for the actual carnival parade began, dancers wearing those amazingly beautiful
... and extremely revealing costumes:
At about 4am we were exhausted and ready to leave the favela and go back, even though the samba school was still "on fire", the cariocas showing no sign of getting tired or sleepy.
All in all, a visit to the samba school was definitely worth it and I finally found the hiding place of those sexy Brazilian girls that you see on TV...
We went to visit the Salgueiro one of the most successful samba schools in Rio. Just like everything here, events started close to midnight when little children should long be in bed sleeping - but not in Rio, here the young generation is also getting fit and ready for the carnival:
The night began with separate "shows" by individual performers:
- some funny:
-others sexy:
but all very entertaining and spectacularly dancing:
In the break between rehearsals, I decided to get to "familiarize myself with the locals"...:
During the entire time the drums were reverberrating in our head from the band beating literally hundreds of drums from the balcony:
I am afraid that even though we got handouts with the lyrics of the carnival anthem of Salgueiro and even though we listened to it again and again during the practice, we still did not learn it...so we might have to go back...
After the break the scene changed a bit, as the practice for the actual carnival parade began, dancers wearing those amazingly beautiful
... and extremely revealing costumes:
At about 4am we were exhausted and ready to leave the favela and go back, even though the samba school was still "on fire", the cariocas showing no sign of getting tired or sleepy.
All in all, a visit to the samba school was definitely worth it and I finally found the hiding place of those sexy Brazilian girls that you see on TV...
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