Carnival is Rio's main event. It happens at the peak of summer, when Cariocas are at their best. Festivities attract thousands of people from all corners of the world. Carnaval, as spelled in Portuguese, is a 4-day celebration. It starts on Saturday, and ends on Fat Tuesday, or Mardi-Gras. Dates change every year. Carnival Sunday is seven weeks before Easter Sunday. There's much more to Carnival than the Samba Parade, though. Street Carnival is loads of fun, free, and it happens all over the city. You are more than welcome to watch and participate. Banda de Ipanema is one of the most traditional ones. It was founded in 1964, and today it is listed as part of the city cultural heritage, attracting as many as fifteen thousand people!

This package includes:
Round trip transfers (airport/hotel/airport); 4 nights of lodging (duble room) at Benidorm Palace Hotel; brazilian breakfast buffet; half day city tour - Corcovado; services of tour and hospitality desk; all hotel taxes included. The price is per person, based at least two people traveling toguether.
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Carnival in Salvador basically has two parts: the parade of trio elétricos (more about them in a moment), and the barracas.
A trio elétrico is a done-up semitrailer, loaded with thousands of watts of sound equipment and with a band playing on top. They parade very slowly along one of two circuits; one closer to the city center, running from Campo Grande (literally "Big Field", Salvador's central park) to Praça Castro Alves (named for Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves, the Bahian poet who, among other things, wielded his mighty pen against the injustices of slavery and political oppression) and the other running from Barra to Ondina. They are called "trios" because the first one was an old car ('29 Ford) with a driver and two musicians (Dodô and Osmar) in the back (the car can be seen in the museum at the Lagoa da Abaeté in Itapoan; it debuted in 1950). Next Carnaval (as it's spelled in Portuguese) will be in the middle of February. Unofficially (and actually) it runs to the morning of Ash Wednesday, and ends on Sunday. The arrastão (roundup) of Timbalada starts Wednesday morning at the Farol da Barra and winds its way along Avenida Oceanica to Ondina.

This package includes:
5 nights at Bahiamar Hotel in a single or duble standard rooms with brazilian breakfast buffet. Contact one of our travel consultant and ask for other hotel's options and specials air fares. THE PRICE IS PER PERSON.