Feb 15

Brazil Carnival Photos: Sexy Samba Dancers in Carnaval Rio de Janeiro / Rio Carnival is a wild 4 day celebration, 40 days before Easter. It officially starts on Saturday and finishes on Fat Tuesday with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday after which one is supposed to abstain from all bodily pleasures. Carnival with all its excesses, celebrated as a profane event, can be considered an act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh. It usually happens in February, the hottest month in the Southern Hemisphere, when the Rio summer is at its peak.

There are carnival celebrations in virtually every corner of Brazil, the best-known ones taking place in Recife together with the neighboring Olinda (in the North of Brazil) and Salvador. But the biggest and most famous carnival is undoubtedly the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro Continue reading »

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Feb 15

Brazil Carnival Video: Carnaval de Santo Amaro 2010 / Carnaval em Santo Amaro da Imperatriz. Entrega da chave da cidade ao Rei Momo na sexta-feira do Carnaval Imperial. Vídeo de Sebastião da Cruz, em produção independente, trabalho cultural voluntário com filmagem de imagem pública. Essa produção e divulgação não tem finalidade comercial e não recebe apoio financeiro de quaisquer órgãos públicos ou privados, e o seu uso é exclusivamente didático.

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Feb 14

Academicos do Grande Rio samba school dancers perform in the Sambodrome on the first night of the Carnival samba school parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 23, 2009. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Feb 13

Brazil Carnival 2010 Video: Chiclete com Banana – 100% Vc / Carnaval de Salvador 2010 (Sexta) Zé TV

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Feb 13

Brazil Carnival 2010 Video: Cheiro de Amor e MC Leozinho – Se Ela Dança, Eu Danço/Carnaval de Salvador 2010 (Quinta) Zé TV

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