Saturday, March 3, 2012

Carnaval 2012

I thought there should be a few pictures of this year's Carnaval 2012.
 Watching it live on TV was much more amazing than seeing still pictures of it.
(See blog below)  
In the above  picture you can see the length of the Sambadrome in Rio de Janiero. 
 It 's filled with the participants of just ONE samba school in their colorful costumes. They take about an hour going the whole length and the festivities go on all night as one after the other of the samba schools parade through the sambadrome.  Costumes are absolutely amazing!
Click on any image to enlarged it!

This is the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo.  

A small section of one of the huge floats.
Some are 3 stories tall.

Huge amounts of feathers of every imaginable kind are used.
They come from  unusual (and probably nonexistent) birds.
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