how does brazil celebrate new years eve?

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how does brazil celebrate new years eve?

Answer 1

New Year in Rio
Dec 2007 (annual)
The parties on Copacabana Beach are enormous. During the day hundreds of people come to the seafront to pay homage to the Afro-Brazilian orixá, or goddess, Iemanjá, placing offerings in the sea. Music is played throughout the day, but it really kicks off around 7pm when live acts and DJs start up the sound systems on the official stages.

Three stages are set up over a 4km stretch: there is a Brazilian popular music stage playing sambas, pagodes and choros, a rock stage and another playing older music such as boleros, samba-canção and old carnival songs. At midnight a spectacular firework display blasts out the old year and toasts in the new one. This is only the beginning, however, as people dance into the night.

There are also balls and parties at all the major hotels along Copacabana beach, including the Copacabana Palace, Excelsior, Le Méridian and the Sofitel Rio Palace. Prices start at around US$50 and can be more than US$1500 in the more exclusive venues. Tickets for these can be bought from most large travel agents (where you can also buy tickets for Reveillon boat trips off the beach) or directly from the venues. The hotels stay open all night, serving champagne breakfasts from around 3am on 1 January.

One word of advice, though - apart from the obvious one about not carrying valuables and wearing expensive jewellery. The word is that you should go dressed in white, a religious tradition that is well entrenched. If you don't, you will stand out like a sore thumb.

Around two million people are expected on Copacabana beach and therefore organisation of transport in and out of the area is vital. Roads are blocked to traffic from 6pm on 31 December until 4am on 1 January. There are taxis, however (if you can catch one, as they can't park up), tourist buses drop people off (they have to return from Botafogo, north of Copacabana) and urban buses have free access. To use the metro you must buy a special ticket in advance from Carioca, Estácio or Pavuna stations. Ticket sales stop at 6pm on New Year's Eve, or when they run out - there are over half a million tickets available. Check which stations will be open, or letting people off trains only, when you buy your ticket.

There are also firework displays on other beaches (but nothing touches the main one) and, of course, wherever you go in the city on this night there is a party! Whether you just want to dance in the street, check out the new local bands or see some traditional Brazilian music, Rio rocks at New Year.

Answer 2

Well, as a Brazilian (born here and living in here), maybe I can tell something to you about it.

I could divide our new years eve in the following categories:

A) stay at home with the family (the great majority is Christians, which is my case too), having some diner. Generally, we eat "lentinha". It's a dish that we believe (superstition...) brings luck... health, friends etc. It varies from family to family. It happens that these people usually, on the midnight time, get out the house to, outside, see the firewoks. After some minutes, they (us) go to TV to watch the fires from Rio de Janeiro, that keep on for 16 min.

B) the ones which have money or live in cities that have beaches, they go to the shore to party and celebrate the eve with offerings to saints, popular bands performances, baths... There are some places (Bhaia, e.g.) that have something like summer carinival. People go through the night dancing and having fun. Thousands of outsiders come to here to do this, specially you, the Americans.

and C) the workers. They are the ones, as well as in every place on Earth, that stay on working to the country works. These are, sometimes, those that are unemployed and with the new years eve's time get a job, a temporary one.

This last one was my case. I don't have a job now and before the day first. But for the time in question, I got one.

Okay, I hope you can understand all the things I tried to wrote. Tnx!

Ie - B r a z i l, young man

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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