Video: Brazilian Bloco de Lama Festival or Mud Baths
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
While the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro are drowning in the world of beauty, glitz, music and dance that the annual Brazilian Carnival has brought to the streets of the city, the inhabitants of Paraty plunge into a sea of mud, celebrating their festival called Bloco de Lama (Festival mud).
The mud festival took place in the colonial Brazilian town of Paraty, 263 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro, on February 21, 2009. Residents of Paraty, both men and women, young and old, all take part in such an unusual holiday. They cover themselves in mud from head to toe on Jabaquara Beach, wear masks with skulls and parade through the streets of the city, dancing, having fun, reminiscent of some cavemen.
Who gets the most pleasure from "Bloco da Lama" are the children. Smeared with mud and rolled in a swamp, these few days while the festival lasts, they are free to do whatever they want, even walk on their heads if they wish. What more do little mischievous people need to be happy? It is worth noting that adults also use their freedom: they take mud baths, which have a beneficial effect on the skin, dive, dance, dance.
Together with the Bloco da Lama festival, Red Nose day is also held, when all the participants wear homemade red noses, grimace, taking part in the parade through the streets of Paraty. Strange, of course, but true.
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