Sipping a sugary cocktail as your toes disappear into the white sands of a balneário beach. A sunrise hike through the rainforest, finished off with a bowl of acai and washed down with a zingy lime ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "Botafogo Samba Clube" samba school parades through the Sambodrome on the first day of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio ...

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Watch live as revelers and patients from the Nise de Silveira mental health institute take part in the “Loucura Suburbana,” or "Suburban Madness," before Carnival officially begins in Rio de Janeiro.

Six months since the world had their eyes on on Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Now, the attention is once again on Brazil. On Friday Feb. 24th, Rio de Janerio kicked off Carnival Rio, ...

A reveller of the Beija Flor de Nilópolis samba school performs during the first night of Rio’s Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio, Brazil, on February 12, 2018. (Photo by… NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Friday marks the start of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. We set out to discover if Brazil's tradition of wild street parties and lavish costume parades is actually a form of collective therapy.

“The parades at the Sambadrome are the central event of Carnival. For four nights, Rio’s top samba schools, of which there are more than 100, perform to themes of their choosing—this past year, many ...