Carnival Rio de Janeiro, the Biggest Party of the World, that Latin television does not Speak!
Hello friends from Latin America! Today I will speak for you as it really is the Rio Carnival!
The biggest part of the party is on the street and it is FREE. There are the Carnival Blocks, which are like groups of people around a van with music and the biggest part of the audience uses costumes.
This happens not only in Rio de Janeiro, but also in other regions such as Salvador, San Pablo, Minas Gerais and many other places.
The Rio Carnival different from what we see on television is not just the parades of the sambadrome! In truth that would be like 30% of what carnival really is!
Now let’s explain better:
- How is the Street Carnival?
- What is a Carnival Block?
- How to choose which Bloco to go?
- Where are the Blocos?
- How is the Sambadrome Carnival?
- Recommendations for who wants to do tourism during the carnival!
1) How is the Street Carnival in Rio de Janeiro?
The street carnival and Rio are great blocos that are around the city, they are like parties in the street, the first Blocos begin at 7 in the morning, normally a bloco lasts on average 3 to 6 hours, depends on the Bloco.
1.1) What is a Carnival Block?
Bloco de Carnaval is a group of people, usually all disguised, around a van, or a truck, or a walking band, it does not matter, what you have to have is music, costumes and people in return haha!
Normally it’s on a street or in a square, there are Blocos that stay standing and there are blocos that walk through the streets.
1.2) How to know if a block is good or not?
Well this information we are still making a calendar with the blocos that we are going to have in this year to send as a suggestion of where to go, but what I can anticipate is that normally the best Blocos are in the south zone of the city, to me I also like to run away from Ipanema, as the best-known Blocos stay there and there are usually many people and everyone there are many people is usually not the safest place, unfortunately there is much confusion in the Blocos de Ipanema.
1.3) Where are the Blocos?
As I said earlier in the text, the Blocos stay in the streets and squares, in all the possible places they can imagine, there are Blocos from 7 in the morning until 2 in the morning, it is really the whole holiday For 5 days.
2) How is the Sambadrome carnival?
The Carnival of the Sambadrome is what we are used to seeing on television. It’s the parades that we have in the sambadrome and it’s a really beautiful party with a unique energy, but in a matter of number of people, most of the Carnival is the carnival of the street and the biggest part of the tourists does not know that it exists.
For example, in the Sambadrome there are 76 thousand seats and it works 4 nights, in the Sergeant Pimenta (one of the blocos), it can reach 200 thousand people in an afternoon.
In short, the concentration of people and partying is greater in the blocks of street than in the Sambadrome, even because in the street is free and the cheap drinks and in the Sambadrome to get a good quota, will spend more or less R $ 300 x single person entrance.
3) Recommendations for who wants to do tourism during the carnival
Well, if you want to go sightseeing during the carnival, what I most say is that you do everything very early in the morning, for example if you want to go to Christ be the first to arrive at the queue, if not the first one, arrive 10 minutes before the opening because you will have a tail already.
Para ir al Cristo ya enseñamos en ese post aqui
Trips outside of Rio such as Angra, Buzios or Arraial? I do not indicate, all the cariocas normally travel at that time and that makes a lot of traffic, both on the way out, and on the return, if they still want to go on their own, I indicated doing the trips on Sunday or Monday, which are less busy days !
