Ah, the carnival! Or dreams come true.
12 March 2016 •
Travel time: with 27 February 2014 on 08 March 2014
For the last three years, I dreamed of visiting Brazil at the carnival. Every year, prices grew higher and higher, but that's what she dreams of, so that at the most unexpected moment she suddenly takes and fulfilled
Flight to Paris UIA, and there is already a double-decker Air France bus, travel time is about 10 hours, they have time back by 6 hours, in general, according to ours it was 11 am, and according to It’s 6 in the morning for them, on the plane I slept for all my previous intercontinental flights and felt great. How nice it is to fly away from our cold winter into their beautiful summer +28.
The flight went surprisingly well, I slept all the way
Brazil got a little jolly
Our random fellow traveler offered his help in Rio
We were met by the previously agreed guide Alexander, who warned that Brazil is a very cremenogenic country, made us remove all the gold and hide it away, warned us how to hold the camera and the camera, and we immediately rushed on excursions to the most famous symbol of Brazil and not only - the Statue of Jesus. There were still few people at that time and we took wonderful pictures.
Although there were few people, they all got into my frame
Although there were few people, they all got into my frame
Then we went to Selarona Street. This artist lived on it, who became famous for making his street an open-air museum, that is, he laid it out with pieces of tiles, even tourists from all over the world brought him symbolic tiles
And then we climbed Sugar Loaf by cable car
There are a lot of wild monkeys in Brazil
We lived in the very center of Copocabana in the Copacabana Mar hotel 4 * hotel without complaints, breakfast included in the price of accommodation, on the 11th floor on the roof of the pool, where we swam every day, since in the Atlantic Ocean, the water is about 20 degrees, for me it was cold, in the room wi-fi, which repeatedly helped out.
Our hotel. Although in the center, but on a quiet street
There was a pool on the roof of our hotel
On the second day we had an excursion to the favelas
The next day we had an excursion to the favelas.
To be safe, we drank a local Kayapiriya cocktail and life sparkled with completely different colors
We need to take everything as a souvenir
The next day we took the ferry to the fish market in Niteroi
Going by ferry to Niteroi
And here we had an abundance of fish and very friendly sellers
You can buy a fish at the bazaar, and they will cook it for you on the second floor in a cafe, it was very tasty
Although we were not hungry, we had to eat everything
We also had a boat trip in the resort of Anga dos Reis.
We take boat trips in every country. In Brazil, it was the most uninteresting
On the penultimate day we went to the zoo. But we were not lucky, it rained all day.
A very large collection of primates
And of course a great carnival. Since I have already been there, I will say unequivocally, to reduce the cost of the tour. You can fly on your own, and only book a hotel and air travel from a tour operator, personally I will only do this the second time. A taxi from the airport to the hotel costs $ 20, and I paid for transfer-$130 only there, is there a difference? A ticket to the carnival (I specifically put out a price tag from our hotel in the photo), we paid $ 350, in fact it cost $ 260 at the hotel, I have not seen a tour operator cheaper than $ 450, and personalized tickets, this is generally nonsense, only the price is crazy, top view is better.
Look at the price list for the carnival
We had the 7th sector, he and the 6th sector are the best. Why? The jury sits in the 6th sector, and the 7th sector is opposite, and so at the beginning of the procession, the participants of the samba school go to the wreck, in front of the 6th and 7th sectors, they give all the best, and at the end they don’t care either - they have already shown themselves to the jury. You need to come to take a seat in the front row at least three hours in advance. So we arrived at half past six, we started launching at six, but we were sitting in the front row and no one bothered us. We took a warm blanket from the hotel for the seats, since there only concrete benches. The carnival begins at nine o'clock in the evening, each school goes 80 minutes, then a 10-minute break and the next school goes, 6 of the strongest schools passed during our night, our last school, for the fourth year in a row it takes first place. At the carnival we March 3 was on Monday, on Sunday and Monday the most expensive tickets, because the strongest schools perform. Carnival is an amazing action, TV and 1% cannot display all the beauty. At six in the morning, the carnival ended and we went to the hotel to sleep. Even at the time of the carnival, the whole city The city carnivalizes to the fullest, and tourists and local residents dress up in carnival costumes and dance and sing wherever possible. Excursions can be freely taken at travel agencies in the city, they are full, the price tag is 30-40% cheaper than in our travel agencies. Brazil is a criminal country, so be vigilant. Well, if we went by ourselves, two girls and nothing happened to us, this also says something. I will definitely return to the carnival again!
It's just a costume ball on the streets
And here is the carnival itself. Seeing it live is something!
To get good seats, we arrived in 3 hours.
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