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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thiago Mostazo and Maycron Abade

Forget glitter, this Carnival party in southern Brazil is all about mud

Brazil Carnival - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Revelers heading to Carnival parties in Brazil typically don colorful, skimpy outfits and splatter glitter everywhere, but near an old colonial town in the south of the country people cover themselves in something very different – mud.

Partakers in this unusual Carnival party in Paraty drape gray sludge on themselves and roll around in the silty shallows of a beach, forming a unified mass.

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