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Brasil lives its carnaval intensely. The festive colors and accross the country overflow with fun, wilndess and sexuality that will last until next Tuesday.
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The bright and sensual bodies of dancers started the sighing and whistling of the ecstatic people at the sambadrome.
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The big parades at the sambadrome glow in the Brazilian night with all the rhythm and snensuality of music and dance. It is a spectacular show for the privileged public that pays a high price for a seat.
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The expectation for the 2013 festival is 2.4 million people, which will break the Guiness world record for biggest street party on the planet.
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In Río de Janeiro, the tourist capital of the country, hundreds of thousands of people take to the street to dance, drink and have fun with the 'blocos,' troupes that roam the city every year with their music and constumes.
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In the 'blocos', the people dance and sing behind a truck with musicians who are accompanied by a marching band of percussionists, similar to the samba schools.
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At times the crowd is such that many people end up on top of police cars so they can breathe and avoid being trampled.
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In Cordão da Bola Preta, the biggest of all these groups, the central avenue collapsed Río Branco with a crowd that organizers aim to reach 2.5 million people that will be recognized as the biggest world carnival in the Guiness Book of World Records.
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Brazilian film star Viviane Araujo belongs to the Academico do Salgueiro samba school and delighted thousands of attendees with exotic steps, which they erupted in cheers as they recognized them.
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All types of costumes, like smurfs, pirates, superheroes, fairytale characters, vikings, Mario Bros, cavemen, Arab dancers, firefighters, nurses, police, sailors or angels, were mixed into the uninhibted crowd that overflowed Rio Branco avenue and was scattered by the surrounding streets.
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Crowds also took to the streets of cities in the Norhteast, like Salvador, Recife and Olinda, whose carnavales competed in prestige and popularity with Río de Janeiro.
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In Salvador, capital of the Bahía state, the party began since midnight Thursday with the 'trios electricos,' trucks equipped with powerful speakers over which various orchestras played and played nonstop two circuits created especially for the carnaval.
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Recife, capital of Pernambuco, gave a vent to the party with the Galo da Madrugada parade, a parade led by a gigantic chicken behind which are stacked nearly 2.5 million people dancing to the frevo rhythm and other rhythms of the region.
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El Galo da Madrugada is the rival to beat for the Cordão da Bola Preta of Río de Janeiro in its aspiration to become the largest carnival in the Guiness Records.
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Also in Sao Paulo, financial capital of the country, the carnaval paralyzes activities and eyes turn to the sambodrome of Anhembi, where Sunday night the parades of samba schools of the city began.
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Great color and flavor was deployed by the Salgueiro samba school. It's choreography elicited miles and miles of applause.
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Dancers of the Salgueiro samba school are distinguished by their exquisite dance; with one look the dancers of the school made men crazy with their eyes.
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The glamour of Hollywood was also present in Brazil, American actor Will Smith was in Río de Janeiro to help in the parades of the samba school. Also, socialite Kim Kardashian was in the capital to attend the Carnaval at the sambodrome.
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Showing her pregnancy and accompanied by her boyfriend, rapper Kanye West, Kim visited Christ the Redeemer before throwing herself into the arms of the party of the Carnaval.
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The Tijuca samba school was one of the grandest entertainers of the parade, their sensual dancers, dressed in tiny and provocative costumes, touched everyone present.
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Brasil lives its carnaval intensely. The festive colors and accross the country overflow with fun, wilndess and sexuality that will last until next Tuesday.
Photo: AFP
