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Rio Carnival 2016 5-10 February 2016 Rio Carnival 2016 5-10 February 2016 Optional Activities You will be spending 6 days in Rio with a whole variety of included excursions such as visits to both the Corvocado and the Sugar Loaf mountain, the most iconic sights of the city, and a night at the Sambadrome where you will experience the dazzling display of the top Samba schools - the highlight of Rio Carnival! Dragoman and Imaginative Traveller also offer a few optional excursions that you may wish to take part in. Details of the optional activities available are found below. Please note these can only be arranged by pre-booking direct with the Dragoman sales team or through your agent. In order to guarantee availability, please book by 1 December 2015. We may be able to consider requests for activities after this date but will not be able to guarantee availability. Optional ACTIVITIES: Sambadrome Upgrade To Sector 11 Seating When: Sunday 7 February, 18:00hrs until Monday morning Code: SECTOR11-16 Cost per person including ticket for sector 11, Metro tickets and guiding services GBP EUR USD 150 193 254 The Sambadrome is the venue where the main parade of the carnival takes CAD AUD NZD place; essentially it is a long avenue that is lined with spectator viewing areas and only the best Samba schools will parade here. The different spectator 275 283 313 areas are divided into sectors, priced according to the view that they offer. The diagram above shows where the different sectors are located. On Sunday night we include a ticket to sector 13, the most lively of the sectors, but you can choose to upgrade to sector 11, which is right on the edge of the runway and therefore offering much closer views of the costumes and dancing. If you are interested in photography then an upgrade to sector 11 is highly recommended as it will enable you to get much better shots of the parade! Optional ACTIVITIES: rETURN TO THE Sambadrome When: Monday 8 February, 18:00hrs until Tuesday morning Code: SECTOR5-16 During Rio Carnival the top 12 Samba schools parade in the Sambadrome; 6 parade on the Sunday night and 6 on the Monday night. We include a ticket to sector 13 in the Sambadrome on the Sunday night as part of Cost per person your tour but this is a chance for you to return on the Monday night to see the Including ticket for sector 5, remaining 6 schools. It’s a great thing to experience although you’ll be truly exhausted Metro tickets and a guide to at the end of it! accompany you to and from the Sambadrome For Monday night we have tickets in sector 5, which is nearer the entrance to the Sambadrome than sector 13 where you will be on Sunday night. GBP EUR USD 240 309 406 There are some unique benefits to sitting in sectors located toward the beginning of the parade route. You will experience less lag time between the conclusion of one samba school’s procession and the beginning of the next school’s performance, and more CAD AUD NZD importantly, you will have the full excitement and exhilaration of watching the opening performance of a school’s parade. The crowd goes wild, and the locals normally find 440 452 501 the beginning moments of the parade to be the most exciting as a whole year has passed since the school’s last performance. Optional ACTIVITIES: Join the parade When: Monday 8 February, evening until late Code: PARADE16 Watching the parade is one thing but utmost energy into your performance; this actually taking part in the parade is a real is the most important event of the year for thrill and an unparalleled experience. Yes it Cariocas (the people from Rio) and you will be hot and sweaty and your feet will will be playing a part on the biggest stage ache after an hour or more parading but it in the world! will be a talking point for years to come. Not many people can say they have actually Your costume will be delivered to your taken part in a Sambadrome Parade! hotel ready for the parade, and is yours to keep! You will then be accompanied by Each Samba School has massive floats a guide to the starting point where you which lead its parade. These are then need to meet your ala and school about followed by ‘alas’ or groups within the school 2 hours before the parade. that are all dressed in exactly the same We will need your shoe and clothing size The costumes for 2012 which costume, giving the blocks of colour and even made it on TV! movement that characterise the parade. at the time of booking, please refer to There are usually around 25 alas for each www.rio-carnival.net/costume-sizes.php school, each one telling part of the overall for the appropriate sizing. For shoe sizes story or theme of the school. The school will it is advisable to order one size larger have approximately 4,000 paraders in total. than usual as the shoes are often very tight. Cost per person You have the opportunity to join one of Including your costume, Metro tickets and guide accompanying these alas, following behind the floats. It will PLEASE NOTE: A place in the parade can you to the start point take between 65 and 80 minutes to only be guaranteed if booked before 1 December2015. complete the parade, including around 30- GBP EUR USD 40 minutes within the Sambadrome itself. Please also note that at the end of the parade You don’t need to be able to actually samba; everyone is led outside of the Sambadrome so 500 644 846 rather there is a kind of jumping, bouncing if you wish to see the remainder of the parade way that people parade, to create the whole you will need to buy an entry ticket in advance feeling of strength and happiness. However, (see Return to the Sambadrome). CAD AUD NZD you will need stamina and will need to put 917 942 1044 your Optional ACTIVITIES: Morrinho Project When: TBC Code: FAVELA16 Morrinho is a 300m2 model favela created by children living in the local Pereira da Silva community. The model was created from recycled materials such as bricks, scrap metal and wood. The model was started in 1998 by Nelcirlan Souza de Oliveira and, when his friends became involved, the ‘play set’ gained considerable size. The reproduction of favela (shanty town) life in their model is so accurate that it has gained a world wide reputation appearing on Brazilian TV and has been the subject of a documentary which is now on sale. Morrinho has even been recognised by many art critics as an expression of contemporary art. The model is now being used to generate money by the NGO Morrinho, Cost per person a charity that provides professional qualifications to the residents of the Pereirão including transport, guiding Community through workshops including audiovisual production, art-education, services and 40 BRL Brazilian culture, and youth and citizenship. The charity is also involved in utilising donation to the charity the project as a film set, which has raised awareness of how harsh life is for shanty town dwellers. GBP EUR USD We have taken the decision to offer this activity instead of a favela tour. This is because of the intrusive nature of favela tours, especially during Carnival, when 58 75 98 there are large numbers of tourists. We’re also always trying to find a way to give back to the places we visit, which is why we are very happy to have found a CAD AUD NZD project that directly benefits a whole community and not just a few individuals. 106 109 121 The visit is two hours long and includes a guided tour of the 300m2 site by an English speaking guide. During your visit you will walk in the community and meet staff at the project. The local kids and teenagers will also present the TV Morrinho project where the model is used to produce stories, some of which have been aired on the Nickelodeon TV channel Group size 1 guide per 12 passengers Optional ACTIVITIES: Gay ball When: Tuesday 9 February, midnight until early hours of Wednesday morning Code: GAYBALL16 Cost per person Including entrance ticket GBP EUR USD The balls at Carnival are part of the whole experience and this has been the most popular ball from past Dragoman visits. If you are going to visit just one ball then this TBC TBC TBC is the one we recommend! Put aside any inhibitions you may have, put on your costume and get dancing with CAD AUD NZD all the other partygoers. It is a fantastic experience and people are generally very friendly with loads of photo opportunities and some incredible sights! Music is a TBC TBC TBC combination of Samba and more modern music; there is something for everyone and if dancing is really not your thing there is plenty of people watching to do. Please note that transport is not included but it is easy to share a The Ball can startle some people but really is a memorable event and one which you taxi there and back with fellow will talk about long after carnival has been and gone. revellers. Please also note that there may be a possibility for Please note that we do not provide a costume for the ball. You will need to bring this you to find cheaper tickets yourself – lots of glitter and feathers please! And make sure you save a bit of energy and/or get them at the door of for this climax to carnival.
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