Travel facts!

Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, probably Olinda too is crazy during the carnival! I can just say BE CAREFUL! Don’t be even close to the “pipoca”. The pipoca is the people that are standing “outside” party looking when the trucks pass by. This people don’t have enough money to buy a T-shirt and join the party so they participate by looking at the carnival. In the pipoca there is always people that are there for get some money by robbing tourists (even Brazilians!)! As I said before DON’T go close to the pipoca! By the way, it’s called Pipoca (popcorn) because look like popcorn from the side because they are jumping up and down on the same spot!

Carnival is crazy, DON’T carry your camera if you can’t afford to lose it (only in the camarote). DON’T have pockets on you shorts, even if you’re not carrying anything it’s not very pleasant when you have someone’s hands around your private parts. If you’re a girl DO use shorts in the bloco, otherwise you will for sure have some people’s hands between your legs during the time in the bloco, not so nice! DON’T bring your passport or other documents if you don’t need too (there is a law for Brazilians to bring but nobody do – I don’t know the law about this for tourists but wouldn’t bring my passport anywhere during carnival). During the six days of carnival 1100 documents was found! So I just wonder how many was lost totally????

YES! Bloco Carnival 2011

We were only planning to do two things during the carnival so weren’t really planning to go to Bloco Yes! Anyway we decided to go but Emil didn’t have more money for buying a T-shirt so all our friends cut of a piece from their T-shirt to make one for Emil. Emil didn’t believe that it was going to work but Leo convinced him! A woman in a store put the T-shirt together, but you could see that it was fake long way… Anyway Emil managed to stay inside without get thrown out for the whole time and he only paid R$10 which is 40 kr or 4 euro for a T-shirt that we paid R$250 (1000 kr or 100 euro) awesome!!! The funniest was that after the bloco finished and we were heading back to the bar someone stole Emil’s totally fake T-shirt! How can that happen!?!

Emil and Jair

Emil, jag and Jair

Me and my littlebrother (who is sooo big now)

Jair and me

HEJ NORGE!

Norweigan girls

Leo and Emil

Leo is Brazilian but more white than Emil!!!

Jair, me and Thomas

Thomas and Jair

 Me and the two blonde Swedish police girls!

Carnival!

Camarote Skol 2011

Today I was thinking of finally write about the carnival! I really wanted to do it before but I haven’t felt like I was ready to talk about the carnival because of what happened. But know I feel better. I had really fun during the carnival, the four days that I had the time to experience.

Camarote Skol was by far the best! We had open bar, free make-up, free decorating of the clothes for girls, free beer-glass, free hand-cuffs ;) they handed out a lot of other things to put in your hair also. It was awesome and so much fun! I wished we could do that every day!

We went with Jair’s awesome Italian friends Roberto Faga, Elso di Marco, Massimiliano and his girl! We had so much fun!!!!

Massimiliano and his girl

Jair and me

One thing happened there that was a little bit scary but it’s normal if you’re me… I faint sometimes and I’m actually happy that Jair got to see that because now he knows that I’m not dyeing or something like that if it happens again he will know that there is no problem. I felt a little bit funny after one sip of my glass, like I couldn’t breathe probably so I asked Jair to stay one second with me before leaving with the others. Then it happened I was hugging Jair and just passed out and started to shake a little bit (according to the people who witness the whole thing). Just a short while after I felt someone holding my back, like in a dream and I woke up. I saw that Jair was still standing up with me hugging me and there were a lot of people around us. A guard was there and I was sure that I was going to tell me to go home, but he was just there to check on me and I felt fine, I felt like it never happened. Everyone told me, to drink water, but I didn’t faint because I was thirsty of course not haha! And I felt better than ever, like I just had a powernap! No more dizzy nothing! So we continued the party and stayed until the place closed at 5 am. 

Jair's wonderful Italian friends that we are planning to visit in august this year!

Jair and Roberto

Little brother Emil with a sixth-sense, at the same second as I fainted he walked up the stairs and found Jair holding me - magic connection

Elso, Jair and Roberto - belengooooo

Family!!!

Bloco passing-by, but there was actually more find to be in the camarote than in the bloco! There is much more things to do in the Camarote and much more safer!

My very own free stylist!

Jair and Roberto

Bloco truck passing by, you can see the little bar there cool!!

Mmm... I love beeer!

Beaten up!

During the carnival here, there is a lot of fights, a lot... Me and Jair had the misfortune to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, so some people tried to rob us. Jair got beaten with a piece of wood but at least he's strong enough to defend himself from getting beaten up. I wasn't a guy hit me so hard at my mouth that two of my frontteeth almost came out and I got stiches around my mouth and in my head. I don't remember a single thing from what happened at that's making me crazy.

I'm so happy that they have public hospitals in Brazil, if they didn't have that I'm sure that I would have lost a lot of blood and my two teeth too. Because it's really hard to find hospitals that use garanty for payments from European insurance companies. Thanks to the public hospital I was treated very fast and I got to keep my teeth as they called a public dentist that secured my teeth just an hour later by putting braces. The braces very the most ugly I ever seen and as I closed my mouth they had to put glue two times. The braces very so big so I had problems to close my mouth completely! The glue got also colored very easy so if I ate açai my teeth got completely purple and if I ate carrots my teeth got completely orange! I'm happy that that brace is out now, it was horrible!

Travel Tips!

Don’t wear nice big earrings in the blocos or in crowded areas during the carnival. There are girls there that just pull them right out from your ear if they like what they see, which leave you with TWO earlobes on each side of your head instead of ONE! During the carnival I always use earrings that snap of very easily if someone try to pull them out of my ear.

Carnival survey

Carnival is near so don't miss my survey! It's right here in my blog to the right. Check it out! Where is the best carnival? The Brazilians except from the cariocas (from Rio de Janeiro) and the people from Olinda keep on telling me that Salvador is the best. I want to have your opinion!

CARNAVAL EM SALVADOR

The carnival in Salvador was amazing!!! Wow, I really think Salvador has the best carnival!!! I haven’t been to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro or Olinda or anywhere else, but I think I’m convinced anyway.

Rio de Janeiro is famous for the parade, but of fun can it be to watch the parade for seven days??? In Salvador you are a part of the carnival!! Salvador has the biggest street party in the world! There is a big street where trucks with bands playing are going. A truck with a band is called bloco and if you want to take part of the party you have to by a T-Shirt and then you can enter inside of the rope that the security is caring to make place for the area around the bloco. To be in a bloco means that you walk before or after the truck where the band is playing, dancing and having a great time. And it is really so much fun!!

Me and Jair with our bloco- T-shirts!!!

There is about three or four trucks playing at the same time on different trucks going down the road. It takes 7 hours for the truck to go down the road, which means that the people in the bloco is going and dancing for 7 hours (but trust me it felt like I only was there for one hour!!! It was so much fun!!!) Outside of the bloco the people that are watching and jumping up and down (the people that didn’t buy a T-shirt) are called Pipoca which means popcorn!! They are called Pipoca because they look like popcorn when they are jumping up and down!!! Haha!!! It is very easy to get robbed there as a tourist, so you have to take care… and really you shouldn’t bring anything. There are so many people that get robbed there.

If you don’t feel like walking in the bloco (which you really should do!!) you can go for a Camarote instead. Then you can be in a big bar all night and watch the blocos pass safe and sound. Usually it is an open bar too, but that is very expensive. The nice thing is that you can see all blocos pass and not choose just one to be in.

The girls!!!

I spent a lot of time speaking only in Portuguese with the girl in the middle, she really taught me a lot!

 

In the bloco :)

Jair has a friend who has an apartment that is next to the blocos, so we had a free Camarote “Gratis är gott, inte sant!?!”

The free camarote… on the roof!

 

The bloco – the truck with the band

 

The blue men!

Then of course free camarote on the top of the favela too!!

And the necklace I have on me… You usually get from a filho de Gandhi, if you kiss him…

Jair and his friends as Filhos de Gandhi, before he met me of course!!

The whole thing about filhos de Gandhi is to kiss a lot of girls, the girls want the necklace, and they get it in exchange of a kiss. But actually when I saw this in real life I was surprised, because all of them were soooooo UGLY!! I think Jair is too beautiful to be a filho de Gandhi, because it seems that it is just for ugly guys that can’t get any girls!!! Haha!!