Ah, New Year in Brazil, there´s nowhere quite like it. When your average quiet Tuesday night out ends at 5am doused in sweat and ten lecherous men in a samba club it must be difficult to raise the stakes for New Year. But yet they managed it.
We spent the evening in the Barra district of Salvador at an all night street and beach party. The evening began at about 8pm with a few round of caipirinhas at the hostel with three lovely Australians - Noonie, Kate and Nancy - and a brilliantly bonkers Austrian called Sven. Mike and I had entered into the Brazilian tradition of wearing white and as we headed out to the streets we joined throngs of revellers also dressed in white. Hundreds of street stalls were set up, music pumping from all of them and we tucked into the second of many (I forget how many, funnily enough) rounds of caipirinhas from a dancing topless bartender-street vendor (a man -sorry boys).
We meandered up the street towards the lighthouse where a massive stage was set up featuring, amongst others, big names such as Mariene di Castro, samba legend. We danced on the streets with the locals until midnight. As we samba´d into 2009 a huge firework display erupted out at sea and we were pushed along in a wave of people heading down onto the beach to jump over seven waves, as is the tradition. The beach was floodlit, yet more cocktail bars were set up - complete with tables and chairs. The music pumped, children and adults splashed in the water, couples canoodled on the beach - the atmosphere was amazing. We sat with our feet in the sand, sipping caipirinhas and sucking it all up. What a night!
Hope you all had a fantastic new year´s eve wherever you were and all the best for a happy and healthy 2009.
We spent the evening in the Barra district of Salvador at an all night street and beach party. The evening began at about 8pm with a few round of caipirinhas at the hostel with three lovely Australians - Noonie, Kate and Nancy - and a brilliantly bonkers Austrian called Sven. Mike and I had entered into the Brazilian tradition of wearing white and as we headed out to the streets we joined throngs of revellers also dressed in white. Hundreds of street stalls were set up, music pumping from all of them and we tucked into the second of many (I forget how many, funnily enough) rounds of caipirinhas from a dancing topless bartender-street vendor (a man -sorry boys).
We meandered up the street towards the lighthouse where a massive stage was set up featuring, amongst others, big names such as Mariene di Castro, samba legend. We danced on the streets with the locals until midnight. As we samba´d into 2009 a huge firework display erupted out at sea and we were pushed along in a wave of people heading down onto the beach to jump over seven waves, as is the tradition. The beach was floodlit, yet more cocktail bars were set up - complete with tables and chairs. The music pumped, children and adults splashed in the water, couples canoodled on the beach - the atmosphere was amazing. We sat with our feet in the sand, sipping caipirinhas and sucking it all up. What a night!
Hope you all had a fantastic new year´s eve wherever you were and all the best for a happy and healthy 2009.
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