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Bedazzled samba dancers parade through the streets, drunken revellers party until the early hours, vendors throw sweet caipirinhas into heaving crowds and a mass of beautiful people dance and sing their way late into the hot summer nights. If you haven’t heard of Rio Carnival, let me introduce you… Carnival is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil, but the festivities in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro are the biggest and best. Rio is vibrant and exotic and its Carnival is a weeklong parade with sounds and colours turned all the way up. Most foreigners think of Rio when they
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