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!!
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