If you missed Carnival but still want some festival activity Brazil has someone else heavy party hidden up its sleeve, well out into the jungle away from the coast.
Boi Bumba is an each year Amazonian festival that while largley unknown face Brazil, is on par as an touch with it's best know couzin. Part of that touch for outsiders is undoubtedly getting to the festival itself.
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The festival is held in the town of Parintins. Parintins' usual population of 100,000 doubles over the festival week as outsiders stream in via a 20-30 hour boat trip or a one hour plane ride from the jungle city of Manuas. Getting to Manus in the first place is bit of a mission from the coast, so the festival's relative annonimity face Brazil might have something to do with it's remote location.
Boi Bumba's roots go back colse to a hundred years. Each festival is the culmination of months of work pimping up costumes and dance routines, and of course picking out the hottest girls and guys to lead the parades.
The factory of the festival is based on an old and well ingrained rivalry from the town itself; the blue team (the upper-class Caprichosos) fight against the red team (the working-class Garantidos).
Each team has a few hours to outdo each other with the hottest dancers, costumes and floats, all commented on by an announcer with an eventual winner crowned at the end of the night.
Boi Bumba is Brazil's 2nd biggest festival and every bit as wild. You will be sharing the touch with less tourists and will undoubtedly have something to tell the folks back home. Boi Bumba takes place on the 28th, 29th and 30th of June in 2010.
The Boi Bumba Festival - Brazil MISSIONS TRIPS TO AFRICA
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