Carnival in Brazil is a huge business. It starts in about 10 days. Today we toured a huge complex where the floats are made. We learned about how each team's entry into the Carnival festival is judged. We had the opportunity to make fools of ourselves by donning a Carnival costume.
Each team's entry for Carnival costs about 5 million US dollars. We had not choice about what costums we were given to wear.
Samba dancers tried to teach us some very basic steps and the drummers taught use some basic rhythms.
These are some pictures of the many parts from previous floats that we saw on our tour.
Looking up-close you can see that the work can be very intricate. I learned that Carnival is a very important part of of Brazilian Culture. Plans for the event go on all year around. It is watched on TV and tickets to attend in person rival the price os Superbowl tickets although there are cheap seat for $15 to $30 US dollars because the event location is huge.
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