Experience Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro Ah, Carnaval. The name evokes explosive images of colorful costumes, lavish floats, swarming masses, and last-minute debauchery before the sober Lenten season ...

On the bus on the way to Carnaval 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, my guide gave my group a heads up on what to expect: “It’s like Cirque du Soleil, times 100.” ...

In just the first few weeks of 2024, Rio has documented more than 10,000 cases of dengue fever, nearly half of the total cases reported in the entirety of 2023, which amounted to 23,000, according ...

On February 25, 2020—just as the final Carnaval celebrations in Rio de Janeiro were coming to a close—the first case of Coronavirus was confirmed in São Paulo, 270 miles south of the ...

One of the world’s largest parties, Carnaval – held this year from March 4 through 8 – is virtually synonymous with Rio de Janeiro. But Carnaval, in all its colourful, hedonistic glory, is ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hordes of gleeful young men and women decked out in outrageous costumes, their faces coated in glitter, will sing and dance to the rhythmic beat of Samba music Friday, as they ...

In January, after a year without Carnaval because of the pandemic, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro called off the upcoming February street parties in light of high Covid-19 numbers following end-of ...

Preface: Recently, on an invitation from our friends at Veuve Clicquot, we ventured 4,800 miles south to Rio de Janerio, or what its Portuguese forebearers serendipitously misnamed River of January.

Hamish Bowles Sambas His Way Through Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval. By Hamish Bowles. March 22, 2019 ... a lightbulb exploded in my enfeebled brain as I realized that Rio’s Carnaval celebrations ...

When Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval returns in 2022 (assuming everyone has been vaccinated, a stipulation the schools have collectively agreed upon to holding the event), it will only be through the ...