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Evening Standard
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Jordan Page

The world's biggest carnival celebration: Your ultimate guide to Rio de Janeiro

A member of Mocidade performs during 2023 Carnival parades at Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí on February 19, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - (Getty Images)

Sipping a sugary cocktail as your toes disappear into the white sands of a balneário beach. A sunrise hike through the rainforest, finished off with a bowl of acai and washed down with a zingy lime iced tea. Warm late nights spent bar-hopping, soundtracked by live bands playing samba and funk.

This may sound like an itinerary we daydream of during a cursed work meeting that definitely could’ve been an email, but for more and more Brits — especially Gen Z — this is what daily life looks like in Rio de Janeiro.

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