Get Down and Samba in Rio
We don't mention dancing enough here: apart from the occasional reference to the well-known bird flu dance, we don't get those hips swinging often enough. So here's our dance tip for the week: Samba City in Rio de Janeiro is there to educate tourists about the way of the samba. It's open 5 days a week (in fact, every day except those starting with T!) and you can watch samba dancers and traditional drummers or even learn some steps yourself.
Disneyland-style, an 8 p.m. parade finishes the day, including fireworks and the opportunity for visitors to get involved in the festivities too. In fact, they bill it as a year-round version of Carnival. It's a government-sponsored project with a secondary purpose: many samba schools of the city are based there and prepare year round for Carnival in a facility known as the Sambodrome!
Originally advertised to open some three years ago, the bosses must have been samba-ing their time away instead of working, but Samba City finally got up and running last year. If you can't stay away from a place with a name as cool as the Sambodrome or you just feel the urge to get those feet moving, check out Samba City for an experience of Carnival without the hefty hotel price hikes.
[Photo: Andreas Helke]
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