HI EVERYBODY! Get Ready To Party!
We are going to The Biggest Party in the World:
Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is all Happening in the Blog Tonight: Parades, Floats, Costumes, Sexy Samba Girls, Music, Dancing, Singing, Photography, Videos, Helicopter Rides around Rio, and millions of Party People!!!!!!!!
(Sorry, no food, alcohol, drugs, chocolate or whatever will be served on the Blog, so please provide your own refreshment(s).)
Get Ready to Rock!
Okay, are You ready to Party? I have arranged for a helicopter to come pick us up off the boat. The boat is tied up to the pier on Rainbow Creek. So walk this way and push play to begin Your Journey! Enjoy!
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For those of You that would like to travel to Rio in your own personal helicopter, please watch the next vid to determine if this is something You want!:
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Look Out! Here comes jerry robin from Canada in his own helicopter. Push play to see what this wild and crazy guy is doing:
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Are we having fun yet? We are all in our helicopters now, heading for Rio! Push play on next vid to enter Brazilian Airspace!:
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Hooray! We are here at Carnival. Enjoy the Party!
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Uploaded by lucilacionni on Sep 6, 2011
Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's primary tourist attraction and resort. It receives the most visitors per year of any city in South America with 9.82 million international tourists a year. The city sports world-class hotels, approximately 160 kilometres of beachland, and the famous Corcovado and Sugarloaf mountains. Annual international airport arrivals dropped from 3.621,000 to 4.378,000 and average hotel occupancy dropped to 70% between 1995 and 2009.
The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1815 during the Portuguese colonial era, 1815 to 1821 as the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation. Rio is nicknamed the Cidade Maravilhosa or "Marvelous City".
Rio de Janeiro represents the second largest GDP in the country (and 30th largest in the world in 2008), estimated at about 943 billion reais (IBGE/2008) (nearly US$ 701 billion), and is the headquarters of two major Brazilian companies -- Petrobras and Vale, and major oil companies and telephony in Brazil, besides the largest conglomerate of media and communications companies in Latin America, the Globo Organizations. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific production -- according to 2007 data.
Rio de Janeiro is the most visited city in southern hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, carnival celebrations, samba, Bossa Nova, and balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. Some of the most famous landmarks in addition to the beaches include the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer ('Cristo Redentor') atop Corcovado mountain, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World; Sugarloaf mountain (Pão de Açúcar) with its cable car; the Sambódromo, a permanent grandstand-lined parade avenue which is used during Carnival; and Maracanã Stadium, one of the world's largest football stadiums. The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janeiro, which will mark the first time a South American city hosts the event. Rio's Maracanã Stadium will also host the final match for 2014 FIFA World Cup. Rio de Janeiro will also host World Youth Day in 2013.
The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1815 during the Portuguese colonial era, 1815 to 1821 as the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation. Rio is nicknamed the Cidade Maravilhosa or "Marvelous City".
Rio de Janeiro represents the second largest GDP in the country (and 30th largest in the world in 2008), estimated at about 943 billion reais (IBGE/2008) (nearly US$ 701 billion), and is the headquarters of two major Brazilian companies -- Petrobras and Vale, and major oil companies and telephony in Brazil, besides the largest conglomerate of media and communications companies in Latin America, the Globo Organizations. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific production -- according to 2007 data.
Rio de Janeiro is the most visited city in southern hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, carnival celebrations, samba, Bossa Nova, and balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. Some of the most famous landmarks in addition to the beaches include the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer ('Cristo Redentor') atop Corcovado mountain, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World; Sugarloaf mountain (Pão de Açúcar) with its cable car; the Sambódromo, a permanent grandstand-lined parade avenue which is used during Carnival; and Maracanã Stadium, one of the world's largest football stadiums. The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janeiro, which will mark the first time a South American city hosts the event. Rio's Maracanã Stadium will also host the final match for 2014 FIFA World Cup. Rio de Janeiro will also host World Youth Day in 2013.
Rio Carnival
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samba schools
The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats and adornments from numeroussamba school which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into 5 leagues/ divisions) A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical common background. The Top League, called the "Special Group" of Samba schools in 2012 include: Unidos da Tijuca,2012 Champion, Mocidade Independente, GRES Imperatriz Leopoldinense, GRES Uniao da Ilha do Governador, GRES Acadêmicos do Salgueiro, Portela, who´s origin remounts to the single first samba group in Rio, GRES São Clemente, the traditional GRES Estação Primeira de Mangueira, founded by Cartola, samba composer and singer and Fluminense Football Club famous fan, GRES Acadêmicos do Grande Rio, located at Duque de Caxiascity, GRES Unidos de Vila Isabel, Beija-Flor de Nilópolis.[2] and finally Inocentes de Belford Roxo, which won the Access Division in 2012 Rio Carnival contest.
One of the main purposes of the Rio carnival parade is for samba schools to compete with fellow rival (they are called co-sisters) samba-schools; this competition is the climax of the whole carnival festival in this city, related to the samba-schools environment.[3] Each school chooses a theme to try and portray in their entry. The samba schools work to build the best floats,costumes, lyrics, aesthetics, to represent their themes ( in Carnival terminology called "enredo"), and to include the best music they can from their drumming band called the bateria.[4] There are many parts to each school's entry including the six to eight floats and up to 4,000 ( four thousand revelers per the Samba-schools of the so called Special group).[5]
There is a special order that every school has to follow with their parade entries. Each school begins with the "comissão de frente", which is the first wing. The "comissão de frente" is made up of ten to fifteen people only, and they are the ones who introduce the school and set the mood. These people have choreographic dances in fancy costumes that usually tell a short story. Following the "comissão de frente", Opening Wing, in English is the first float of the samba school, called "abre-alas".
Some of the important roles include the porta-bandeira and mestre-sala. The porta-bandeira is a very important lady who is in charge of the samba school flag, including making sure to not allow the flag to roll. She is accompanied by themestre-sala, who is supposed to draw everyone’s attention to "his queen", the porta-bandeira. Floatees, who are also important, are the people who populate the floats, also known as destaques. The floatees have the most luxurious and expensive costumes that can be extremely heavy. Along with all the floatees is one main floatee that is located at the top of each float. The main destaque dances and sings for the entire time that the float is on the runway.
One other aspect that is mandatory is the presence of the ala das baianas. This is a wing of the samba school entry that includes at least 100 females only. These women along with many other people do not ride on the floats as many others do, instead they are passistas, the people who belong to the samba school that do the marching alongside and between the floats.
Street carnival
As the parade is taking place in the Sambadrome and the balls are being held in the Copacabana Palace and beach, many of the carnival participants are at other locations. Street festivals are very common during carnival and are highly populated by the locals.[7]Elegance and extravagance are usually left behind, but music and dancing are still extremely common. Anyone is allowed to participate in the street festivals. Bandas and bondos are very familiar with the street carnival especially because it takes nothing to join in on the fun except to jump in. One of the most well known bandas of Rio is Banda de Ipanema. Banda de Ipanema was first created in 1965 and is known as Rio’s most irreverent street band.[8]
Incorporated into every aspect of the Rio carnival are dancing and music. The most famous dance is the samba, a Brazilian dance with African influences. The samba was created by the African . The samba remains a popular dance not only in carnival but in the ghetto villages outside of the main cities. These villages keep alive the historical aspect of the dance without the influence of the western cultures.[9] Other dances include the lundu, the polka, and the maxixe.
The samba is the main dance of Rio Carnival but it is not performed in silence. Music is another major aspect of all parts of carnival. As stated by Samba City, “Samba Carnival Instruments are an important part of Brazil and the Rio de Janeiro Carnevale, sending out the irresistible beats and rhythms making the crowd explode in a colourful dance revolution fantasy fest!”[10] The samba that is found in Rio is batucada, referring to the dance and music being based on percussion instruments. It “is born of a rhythmic necessity that it allows you to sing, to dance, and to parade at the same time.”[11] This is why the batucada style is found in most all of Rio’s street carnivals
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http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/03/rio-de-janeiro-carnival-2011/
http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/03/rio-de-janeiro-carnival-2011/
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http://www.rio-carnival.net/rio_carnival/rio_carnival_programs.php
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Thanks to our tourist for sharing their trip!
http://www.rio-carnival.net/rio_carnival/rio_carnival_programs.php
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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/301435/20120220/rio-carnival-2012-parade-de-janeiro-pictures.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/9093433/Rio-de-Janeiro-Carnival-2012-the-first-night-of-parades-in-the-Sambadrome.html
Rio de Janeiro's annual Carnival kicked off as top samba schools paraded sumptuous allegorical floats and hundreds of exquisitely costumed performers to thumping drum beats. Seven top schools showed off their best performers in the city's renovated Sambodrome's 720-metre-long (2400-foot) avenue in front of a capacity crowd of 72,500 people. Six other schools are to parade on Monday night as part of the hotly contested event to pick the Carnival champion, judged on choreography, music, dancing and creativity.
Members of Beija-Flor samba school perform during the first day of parades of Carnival of Rio de Janeiro at the Sambadrome
Picture: EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JRhttp://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/carnival_2010.html
A carnival float from the Salgueiro samba school under construction in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #
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....this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek.
See You next time (monday, midnite-Have a good weekend!)
Of course, one more Great Performance. This was recommended by our google+ friend, Kooi Hwei Lee. (Thanks Kooi, super great vid!) A great 8 minutes!:
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Liebe brendasue ! Dein Blog ist immer sehr interessant.
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