i think my ears are ringing and i understand the lighting is not great but you can probably
hear what's happening inside this is ivana in my first experience at a true samba show
i think i forgot what happened only been here for an hour
i gotta take you guys in there and show what it's like be warned uh i won't be talking to
you in there because it's incredibly loud but it's incredibly awesome if you've never been to brazil
i mean you're missing out i'm gonna spin the camera around now and i'll show you
what it's like providing i can find ivana who might be gone this is the best check this out
okay okay
all right so where are we and what exactly is happening because i think to anyone outside
of brazil this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience although here in rio it's very common we are in a
place called salguero which is a samba school and my understanding is there are many samba schools
all across rio and they compete sort of in a way similar to football where if you win you stay
in the top division but if you lose you might actually get demoted or relegated to the second
division and so there's a big stage inside where they're dancing in an incredible way it's pure
cardio and all around the outside are bars and restaurants serving food and drink and everyone
inside is having a blast good timing what can you tell us about your first experience i'm deaf
it's so much fun wow it's like such a party vibe
yeah i can't even hear myself am i talking yeah yeah i actually i actually plugged my nose and i
blew to see if i had to pop my ears i felt like they were popped you know it's amazing they're
like moving like this house no it's not a surprise that brazil's the best country in football
of course in their spare time they're just running on the spot they're just
they're just running on the spot you know cardio wow uh really really speechless
a speechless type of trouble yeah amazing let's catch up that's why we're here for the samba
okay guys so rather than go to a samba school again because it's now tomorrow we decided to
come to the city of samba we could not do another day drinking and partying we're a little hungover
to be honest so we did an amazing tour through a whole factory where they're building the floats
unfortunately we can't film the construction of the floats because
it's a secret until carnival happens but i can tell you that it's amazing out there
we can't film anything we did a tour here's our lovely tour guide she's really incredible
and now we're trying on some costumes we just watched a movie learning all about the history
of carnival and samba and how these things are interconnected uh we learned about the creator
this lovely uh black lady who sort of brought this culture to brazil really amazing tour i'm
so disappointed we can't film very respectful of the rules they want to keep the floats a secret
but the floats are incredible they've got 18 wheel uh lorries like massive trucks that they take
everything off and build these hydraulic systems on top and everyone's welding and painting and
cutting and it's like oh mind blowing this is like the most incredible thing we've done in in rio
de janeiro samba city of sambal okay time for your headpiece head please yes
yo guys the the outside is so amazing the the building of
the floats is amazing are these dreadlocks am i dreads right now
and look at all the costumes this must be the old costumes some of the old ones
because we cannot see the new ones it can't show you the new costumes i can't show you the new
floats all the amazing stuff i can't show you what i can say is this samba which is city of samba you
must you must book a tour here the idea is there's a whole complex outside with like 10 or 11 schools
of samba and each school of samba has a factory where they're making the floats they're making
the costumes yeah and they're designing this stuff oh my gosh so you can imagine there's 4 000 people
like you saw in that video in each school of samba yeah and every person's got a costume on so we
just saw like dozens of people sewing and putting beads and building costumes building floats uh
they've got six floats this year and their budget per float is a million hay ice that's amazing and
each one is a truck that they've taken everything off of and they're building these levels on top of
levels and they're all there's like a face and a tongue and a dragon and a rooster and it's amazing
so so much for not partying today no it's great let me dress up yo i got pure energy
i'm a little bit hungover but i got pure energy in the costume the costume is full of energy
okay oh we gotta break yourself
steve cannot stop looking at him i feel like i
look a little bit like a chinese emperor no yeah like a chinese
i love it i wish i could wear ivona i wish i could wear this costume to what we did last night yeah i
wish i could wear this outfit to last night's performance show up show up like this people
would go wild off course yo i was feeling a little bit hungover and then the costume is full of life
so funny wow maybe we'll make it to the carnival like the big carnival the actual carnival
where they'll judge you for the costume for the floats and for the rhythm of the music yes
usually the carnival's in two weeks so usually it's in like february or march uh end of february
but this year delayed because uh they couldn't get the things done in time so much covered
restrictions they couldn't get the floats done in time and those things they're building out there
looks like they would take six years to build and the fact they're doing this every year is amazing
i'm
i'm tired
so i danced for about three minutes yeah and i'm covered in sweat and i'm about to fall over
she did it for 10 minutes with high heel shoes on oh my gosh
you only dance for like a minute and you're tired one minute ivana at least and we're in
a room with ac on at least three minutes at least three minutes imagine that you're out there in a
heat yeah i guess one school does something like an hour and ten or an hour and twenty in the sun
with a costume on yeah and we're inside an ac room
and this costume isn't even like that heavy not the heaviest speak for yourself it's
quite heavy my headpiece was heavy but you're right that some of them are much
more elaborate and like above your head on your shoulders and everything yeah okay guys
all right so that's it for the carnival experience yeah tour and in classic brazilian style
we end off the tour with the caipirinha yay small but powerful much like myself i will say this
the samba school yesterday with duna our friend alex was really incredible oh yeah
we got a little drunk we danced around the music is so loud the energy was in the air that's right
and i know the video didn't do much at the carnival experience because we couldn't film
in the factory yeah it's a secret guys but it was so great both things we did five stars
must do amazing you're coming in rio you must do the samba dancing show and you should really do
the carnival experience carnaval experience at city of samba because we had a great time yeah
so nice we learned so much more about samba and about the carnival about the history as
well yeah and everything that goes along i think i'm becoming more brazilian because
i was slow this morning and now i'm dancing and drinking again you're loving your costume
what's up with the costume find out how how you can be inside the
parade i would love to be in the parade yeah once i put the costume on i had new life in me
that's cool maybe we'll come back in april through the break yes please okay really
maybe we'll do it special thanks to our tour guide really great job thank you
thank you very much thank you for a visit i think i asked you 100 times to make a video
outside you said no videos there's a secret don't show the flutes but uh it was really
really great if you want to do some if you want it's very important to comment of course
we give you a good review it's nice we did a great job pretty much thank you so much all
right thank you guys thanks for watching our video guys uh we had a blast yesterday was a
whirlwind and today was a nice rejuvenating wake up awesome the best all right see you guys later