With just 10 days to go until the start of Brazil’s most celebrated event of the year, Rio de Janeiro is warming up to the sounds of the Samba as Carnival fever takes over the city.

A four-day celebration of music, mayhem and madness, Carnival time in Rio de Janeiro is a magical event where up to 2 million people of all races, religions and backgrounds come together, dress from head to toe in sequins and ostrich feathers, and hold the biggest street parties of all time.

If you are one of the lucky ones heading off to Brazil for this auspicious event, try to get hold of a ticket for the Sambodromo.  There you will get the unique opportunity to witness 100’s of Samba school presentations that have been worked on meticulously since last March, and a whole range of wired and wonderful costumes put together one sequin at…