fresh n juicy chunks of oyster :: RTW travel blog

The world's biggest beach party's aftermath consisted of a Copacabana beach drowning in bottles, plastic and junk and masses of people who were passed out, sleeping or watching the sunrise.
The night itself in several nutshells: staggering numbers of people populating the whole length of Copa beach. Amazing fireworks going on for a good 20 minutes all being launched from ships out at sea, one of which was carrying a huge lit-up Jesus. There were a couple of concerts but surprisingly no real sound systems between the stages, but in compensation locals drove their beefed up cars with speakers the size of coffins towards the beach and pounded out Funky, the dirty-dancing electronic music of the favelas. At the same time there were religious festivals of worshippers of a popular Afro-Brasilian 'cult', dancing to drums, going into ecstatic seizures and presenting offerings and wishes to the Goddess of the Sea, Iemanja. Very spiritual!
Finally, add some cheap and very lethal Caipirinhas to the whole mixture and you're guaranteed a good night!
They sure know how to throw a party in Brasil.
And Rio being the City of God, the Man Himself has taken it upon Himself to clean up the mess it left behind: it's been pouring it down for the past two days...

[The pictures from New Year are available on gallery Brasil 4, shouts out to Iam who took all of them with his camera. My current weapon of choice is a disposable Fuji cam :)]