Parintins, Brazil March 15

The city of Parintins is located on an island and has a population of about 100,000.  Every June they hold a 3 day festival that attracts about 200,000 visitors.  It is called "Boi Bumba" and is second behind Carnival Rio in the number of people that attend.  They put on a small version of the festival in a convention center near the dock area for cruise ship guests.  It is a high energy show with music, dance and song along with elaborate costumes, sets and large figures.  We arrived early this time and had front row seats for the show.

Tom with two of the dancers

The Boi Bumba show is a competition between two teams. One supports the black bull and one the white bull.  The black bull team won this past year so they have the right to present the mini show to the tourists for the rest of the year.

There were several costume changes for the dancers during the show

One of the large animated "floats"

You can barely see the man manuevering this colorful float

There were lots of feathers in all the costumes

There were about four different sections to the show and each had a large animated float that introduced a character in the story

This costume had some really long feathers

We think this guy was the witch doctor

This was one of the prettiest costumes














It was a great show and we really enjoyed it more than the last time when we ended up in a back row.  We spent some time after the show shopping the souvenir stalls in order to spend the last of our Brazilian Reals.  It started raining while were shopping but it actually felt pretty good as we had been getting pretty warm being outside after the air conditioned convention center.

We had a nice dinner in Prime 7 with our trivia partners Bob and Eileen.  Tomorrow is our last stop in Brazil, the town of Santarem.