all right welcome to hasifi everybody a city that Ivana and I are having a very good first
impressions uh so this morning we went to a 400 or so year old Fort that was actually
built by the Dutch because hesiti was a Dutch Colony for something like 24 years in the
1600s and inside the fort is a fully air-conditioned and fully free museum which we really enjoyed
where we learned that hasifi is sometimes known as the Venice of Brazil now to be clear
Ivana and I have been in Venice only for three days true but we would say this comparison
is a loose comparison it's not exactly an exact comparison but there are a bunch of
rivers and bridges around hasifi there are sort of two big islands that the city is built
on and it's a big city of something like four million people in the urban area now after
the museum in the fort we went to a place called the casa de Cultura which is like the
house of culture yeah where we were introduced to a man named Luis Gonzalez [Music]
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so my understanding is there was a time in Brazil when the only music was really coming
from the coast and Luis Gonzalez was like a voice for the voiceless because he represented
the people living Inland who were for lack of a better term Cowboys right and they dressed
in full Leathers despite the fact that it's super duper hot out here so very impressive
very sort of uh rural people and I will say this the museum this morning in the fort was
free to enter and you could see the whole thing in about half an hour but the casa de
Cultura was 10 hay ice and it was worth every penny it was the first Museum I've ever seen
with a river inside it was super elaborate there was tons of interesting information
and it was absolutely a five-star Museum now one thing we learned in Casa de Cultura was
that this Luis Gonzalez not only made music but he actually invented like genres of music
like entire genres he came up with and some of these genres are sort of intrinsic to the
hasifi Carnival oh yeah so breaking news Ivana and I I think have decided we will be in hasifi
for Carnival seems like the timing is right on our road trip and sifi is known for this
culture of Carnival people have people have told us they have the friendliest people they
have the best beaches sort of a famous uh cultural location here in Brazil and with
this in mind we're now going to another Museum which is the Museum of which is like a style
of music a style of dance that they do a lot during the carnival here in Red hdp so I'm
gonna check it out this is going to be our Carnival preparation sort of yes very good
let's go
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both dance and music which seems to be interesting in just about every way so first things first
check out this Museum it's really really well done there's not an inch of space that is
left unused including the floors so at first sight it sort of reminds me of something kind
of from a circus I don't mean that in a in a mean way but it's very bright colors the
outfits are often very sort of like a court jester for lack of a better term and the dance
moves are wildly interesting to watch because there seems to be no Rhyme or Reason or right
or wrong way to dance Frable it's part tap dance at times part ballet up on the toes
uh part capoeira at times hard break dancing yes it's really exciting to watch and I think
we've made the right choice to have Carnival here because fraba was going to be on full
display for our Carnival experience now the history of Freeville it sort of occurred naturally
because slaves were inventing dance moves and inventing music and sort of marching along
with these big signs and one thing led to another through the natural history of Brazil
and you end up with things like this being held up as a big sign sort of with the king's
crown on top and people dancing wildly to very fast very creative music uh I'm very
excited for Carnival I think we've made the right choice here in his easy wow great museum
and rainbow is actually so good exercise
her legs are so strong I think my favorite days are behind me yeah by the way this museum
is one of the best we've ever been to yeah I like it I love this Museum the history the
visuals really well organized one of the best museums I've ever made five stars
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listen guys I don't think it was wrong to say it's a bit circusy
oh are you gonna wear that for the carnival that would be cool
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listen guys stay tuned to our Channel because when Carnival gets a little closer we are
gonna buy things like this [Music] this is like a carnival preparation store it looks
really good Ivana it really fits your face actually so just outside of the rainbow museum
is this uh shop selling decorations and everything under the sun for Carnival Yvonne I'm excited
for hasifi Carnival
I tell you what Carnival is all around us here because we've actually found what will
be the main stage you can probably hear a little bit of construction in the background
as they construct what will be the main stage for Carnival and it is in front of what they're
calling Marco zero which I guess is like kilometer zero it's like the first brick that was laid
in the construction of hasifi and all around us are beautiful architectural and historical
buildings and we actually saw a minute ago the first synagogue in all of the Americas
which is attached to some amazing history because the Jewish people that were here in
the 1600s actually fled when the Dutch uh were conquered by the Portuguese and so those
Jewish people were the ones who fled to New Amsterdam which as we know today is New York
so in a bit of funny trivia if you are a Jewish person in New York you might be a descendant
of somebody who used to live here in hasifi now right beside Marco zero we have what it
looks to be a Riverfront because of this big reef on the far side but as it turns out uh
the word hasifi comes from the Portuguese word which means Reef because there was a
massive and naturally occurring Limestone Reef all across here which sort of gives the
effect of a river although this is the Open Sea now in current times you can go and take
a boat ride to go over to The Far Side Of The Reef because they put concrete on top
of the naturally occurring Limestone reef and they've made it kind of a tourist attraction
with a big Monument on top but very nice place down here and I am getting very excited for
Carnival oh yeah it seems like everywhere I look I'm getting Vibes of Carnival and just
feeling the buzz through their prepping stages everywhere in the city like we've seen I don't
know six stages or something six or seven and I think this is the main one because it's
right at Mark zero right right very very nice now there's actually a catamaran tour you
can do which goes underneath a bunch of the bridges and maybe gives you some of that Venice
of Brazil feeling although Ivana and I are probably going to skip it we're both feeling
hungry true so with that being said let's go get food get some food
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so I think we found the right restaurant to eat at very thematically designed and decorated
looks like it's all for Carnival if anyone knows what the statues are above my head let
me know I guess it's for Carnival although it looks a bit like Halloween it was a bit
scary right right and I will say this big shout out to the guys behind me who are doing
hard labor at after hours six or seven p.m uh doing a good job parmigiana staple food
in Brazil I guess in hasifi it comes with spaghetti and not rice and beans right kind
of like parmesan rice and beans spaghetti also good spaghetti spaghetti better for you
great day enjoy first impressions of SCP if you're walking along the side of the road
and you want to cross the road on the zebra crossing the cars will not stop true some
parts of Brazil they stop some parts know but in a CV yeah so good luck yes there you
have it guys thanks for joining our Vlog next Vlog from Olinda right beside the city yeah
look at this restaurant very cool and we'll hear a bad playing soon behind me okay let's
enjoy the food let's see
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