Brazil - Rio
Copacabana/Ipanema -
Corcovado - Maracana
Stadium -
National Park
Sambrodomo (Carnaval) -
Santa Teresa -
Sugarloaf
Carnaval
in Rio means going and watching the top samba schools compete at the Sambrodomo.
The top 14 schools compete on Sunday and Monday nights (7 each.) Each
school runs for
about 80 minutes, so it starts at about 9pm and runs until past sunrise.
Our dinner ran long, so we got there at 1:30am, and stayed until about 7am.
 to our left in the Sambrodomo |
 to our right in the Sambrodomo |
 top row: Todd, George, a guy trying to pick up George bottom row: me, Anthony, Lowell
|
 this is all one school |
 amazing floats |
 peacocks? |
 notice the folks just hanging out of the luxury boxes (everyone says never in the US!) |
 3 motorcyclists in the dome could reach out and touch each other in their "orbits" |
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 colors |
 Madonna-esque |
 colors |
 acrobatics while moving |
 the circus |
 a serious car stereo
|
 each school started with fireworks |
 the colors of Carnaval |
 nice butterflies
|
 don't need beads |
 colors |
 the floats were crazy |
 dancing flowers |
 the grand magician |
 this float looked very life-like when it moved (kinda freaky) |
 notice the sky. . .it's sunrise |
 lions approaching |
 lions
|
 me at Carnaval |
 our tourist section in the morning 1/2 empty and 1/2 unconscious |
 Todd and I at Carnaval |