Thousands of revellers and samba
dancers took to the street for the
opening night of the annual carnival
celebrations
Samba dancers wearing bodypaint,
feathers, glitter- and not a lot else –
have taken to the streets of Sao Paulo
for the opening of the country’s wild
carnival festivities.
Dancers from local samba schools put on
a spectacular parade through the huge
Sambadrome arena as up to 30,000
revellers looked on.
Similar to Mardi Gras, the five-day-long
street party builds up to Ash
Wednesday and the beginning of the
Christian season of Lent.
The carnival’s excesses are considered
an “act of farewell to the pleasures of
the flesh,” before Lent, during which
Christians are supposed to abstain from
bodily pleasures.
Carnival is celebrated in towns and
villages throughout Brazil, but the
festivities in Sao Paulo and capital
Brasilia are the biggest – with around
half a million foreign tourists flocking to
the country every year.
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