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Rio day 2, Ipanema day
The day goes in the records as "Ipamena day"...
After few hours of sleep waking up is pretty hard but excitement for Carnaval pushes me out of bed 💁‍♂️😬 at 8 to trying to get to Bloquihno to Ipanema beach with Rodrigo. Already from the way in the metro seems that the party carnaval people are going the opposite direction as us 🤔... but we have faith and believe that the Bloco will be good 🙃
First impressions were confirmed as indeed we end up in a Family bloco 🤦🏼‍♂️... not exactly what Rodrigo and I are looking for haha 😝👀👀

We decide to head back towards the center to meet the rest of the crew for the Bloco "Boi Tolo" that reveals to be rather traditional and very crowded, but still enjoyable.
For the afternoon we head (again) to Ipanema, against my scepticism for a huge bloco with 30,000 people. The experience is not of the best as the crowd did not allow to fully enjoy the party. Some of us got frustrated and decided to drop, me and David continue until the main street on the beach ⛱ ...
After the "dispersão" we by chance meet again the "droppers" and spend the rest of the afternoon in the beach enjoying the sunset and dancing in a queer "left over bloco" 😀. This is probably the best part of a rather unpredictable day... but that's Carnaval 😆🤪

Most of the time we have to try and have faith, it doesn't always work but there is a lesson learnt 😌Leer más