| If you missed Carnival but still want some festival | | | | Brazil might have something to do with it's |
| action Brazil has another massive party hidden up | | | | remote location. |
| its sleeve, well out into the jungle away from the | | | | Boi Bumba's roots go back around a hundred |
| coast. | | | | years. Each festival is the culmination of months |
| Boi Bumba is an annual Amazonian festival that | | | | of work pimping up costumes and dance routines, |
| while largley unknown outside Brazil, is on par as | | | | and of course picking out the hottest girls and |
| an experience with it's better know couzin. Part of | | | | guys to lead the parades. |
| that experience for outsiders is actually getting to | | | | The premise of the festival is based on an old |
| the festival itself. | | | | and well ingrained rivalry from the town itself; the |
| The festival is held in the town of Parintins. | | | | blue team (the upper-class Caprichosos) fight |
| Parintins' usual population of 100,000 doubles over | | | | against the red team (the working-class |
| the festival week as outsiders stream in via a | | | | Garantidos). |
| 20-30 hour boat trip or a one hour plane ride | | | | Each team has a few hours to outdo each other |
| from the jungle city of Manuas. Getting to Manus | | | | with the hottest dancers, costumes and floats, all |
| in the first place is bit of a mission from the | | | | commented on by an announcer with an eventual |
| coast, so the festival's relative annonimity outside | | | | winner crowned at the end of the night. |