feb 19 2012 Carnival in Rio: murder in the Sambadrome of Lewis Carroll

Normally I do not like get anywhere by plane. Airports seem slaughterhouses which desguazamos the bowels of minutes and hours that do not return, aircraft an aseptic limbo where time and space seem to have stopped. If travel is motion, I Car, culebreen bikes, Give me overcrowded buses, the stony rattle of a train or the swaying of the sea and dizziness. Arriving by plane to anywhere but sometimes unavoidable, is the very negation of the act of traveling. We went into a capsule and left her shortly after thousands of miles away without the landscapes, people or experiences flown thousands of miles below us we have left a trace. An ellipsis denies killing much of the essence of travel.

And despite this introduction cranky I can not avoid crushing your nose against the window as the plane left heel and shows me a wink in just a string of emerald islands lost in the dazzling blue ocean. Rio looks splendid and I am greeted on his first day of Carnival.

For eight days before and two stops Rio and Salvador de Bahia; four buddies, gulfs selected and chosen from Lima, Bogota and Sao Paulo

After five months living in Bolivia, Carnival in Rio was announced as the highlight of a feast that will last a year and I plan to eat the whole of South America to snacks. For eight days before and two stops Rio and Salvador de Bahia; four buddies, gulfs selected and chosen from Lima, Bogota and Sao Paulo, Grant Icex courtesy that has spread to the best of each house as homeless by Latin America. We have chosen as a meeting a myth, Everest of the party. It is Carnival in Rio and we have front row entry. This night parade in the Sambadrome with the Grande Rio group.

In one hour I am now in full Copacabana Beach, trying to locate these, and sniffing like a hound the breeze from the beach announcing full of promises. Late afternoon and the Cariocas heat engines for the night. The burst Blocos or musical group from time to time on the waterfront, people keep, armed with drums, pans, trumpets, or any thunder junk capable staff and get lost among the palm trees to the chorus part in the swimmers. Anyone would realize immediately that here was something big is brewing.

Finally the encounter and the Lost Boys in Latin America Icex sealed the match to beat caipirinha, watching the sun incandescent iron spear on Copacabana beach , to disappear leaving only the evidence of an arrogant youth may not return. But enough nostalgia, We twentysomethings, Spartans and we have a mission awaits the Sambadrome!

For only 200 euros you get a mammoth costume, the letter that you should memorize, resultona choreography and the right role in the Greatest Show on Earth

Hurriedly we double the Rua do Copacabana toward the tiny apartment that we rented. When you open the apartment we found that this has been occupied by a fluorescent green mountain. Here we have kept the uniform of a whole troupe of 15 Spanish and Italian ready to parade in Great River. For those who wonder about the possibilities of the Carnival parade in Brazil, must know that it is much easier than it looks, all groups leaving a limited number of places for foreigners to help them cover their activities. For only 200 euros you get a mammoth costume, the letter that you should memorize, resultona choreography and the right role in the Greatest Show on Earth.

Two hours after the fifteen touristy redados remain in the thousand pieces of that devil costume. ¡Me falta a brazalete!, Where these columns are embedded? I have no helmet!, we check the above time and half-dressed most of us dive into the underground river, leaving a trail of phosphorescent pieces on the road. The metro is free for groups who parade in the Canaval. In the cars we expect the delirium. Makeup Transvestites impossible, drums, dancers, outlandish costumes and confetti make a world of cardboard fuxia, lime and garnet. A bright universe in which we are ...

Makeup Transvestites impossible, drums, dancers, outlandish costumes and confetti make a world of cardboard fuxia, lime and garnet

We are Heroes ....!. Everyone knows our group. Great River, was the champion last year, all congratulate us and wish us luck, Cariocas smile at this gringo Rehala excited and elated, advise us that we prepare for the party.
-Who do desfiláis?, wagon after wagon listen. - Big River!. And those two words only if we have learned, heard, internalized the previous day as part of our imagination am, like home, as our football team or blood group, have become our golden pass the mother of all festivals.
- 'Rio Grande!, They are the best group!. This year we are going to win!. Echoes still resound with admiration when we vomit meter at the foot of the Sambadrome.

Not what it would feel when he met Alice Rabbit stressed that in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll imagined, but compared to the outskirts of the Sambadrome be sure that the rabbit meat from resort. Everyone has forgotten something. Fit the last pieces of the costumes, behemoths that move multicolored rehearsing the last steps. Transvestites mocking dance perched on floats. The cult of the body has become here in religion, both sexes exhibited almost complete nudity defiant and proud in an exhibition carnal rampage any fantasy. There is tension and nerves in the expected.

Both sexes exhibit almost complete nudity defiant and proud in an exhibition carnal rampage any fantasy

Incredulous and almost crushed by the phosphorescence pantheon we carry on our backs, looked at from time to time., almost silent. It is, since we got here and the scene reaches beyond what we dreamed, while almost causes vertigo to the unreality of the spectacle. . In our small section are near 600 people and form a multicolored army, We are just one of the 14 sections that parade in the Grande Rio group. Four other groups parade today. We are only one ten-millionth of the Rio Carnival,and yet we are one ten-millionth part of something big.

On the other side of the fence surrounding the Sambadrome the chavalería encanallada has come down from the favelas to watch the show and win some real climbs the fence lining the room and drops us buckets of beer full of coins up. Test shameful in a country that despite its runaway flight forgets to progress some of their children. But we can only drink here, prohibited drunk at the Sambadrome, not take pictures. They do not need, Brazilians seem more interested in rhythm suggestive of the hips and the clatter of the djembes in the caipirinhas.

We remain concerned by just half an hour before the steps that our partner resident in Sao Paulo Roberto had sent us two weeks ago via Youtube, Solo Conoce one phrase Nuestra song You are my love is Minhou flag Minhou soul is tropical! , Suddenly the forest multicolored feathers and laughter begins to walk and elated we get carried away following the compass as we, no matter the guise does the rest.

The Sambadrome awaits us, open, splendid and full of promise , spotted just a few meters and its crowded bleachers set up the crowd dancing and waves to us, howl and the drums with his frantic pace, and suddenly her lights dazzle, and .... And I can assure that I will never forget 2009, when I wanted both a continent that still hurts me to remember,and never forget that moment when I crossed the threshold of the Sambadrome with my dear three bays on the back of our youth while five thousand throats exulting thundered at Night of Love River Meu é minha minha bandeira soul and tropical!.

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