Carnaval – La ultima noche

The final night of Carnaval was a perfect end to the last week. We joined Fatboy Slim on the Skol +d bloco with pretty much all the other gringos in Salvador and, thankfully, Brasilian drum and bass DJs Marky and Patife. The 3 DJs played about an hour each, switching a couple of times and it somehow started to rain each time they changed, which was great. I personally don’t understand the big deal about Fatboy Slim, sure the Beats International stuff was great, but as a DJ his style is intensely boring, just straight mixes, and his track selection was crap as well, even for a commericial DJ - I felt kind of sorry for him next to someone like Marky. The crowd was great again, though insanely packed, and my glasses got knocked off again and are in pretty bad shape this time, so I need to invest in some super glue to fix them. Maybe it’s time to get laser eye surgery.

We managed to make it to the end of the circuit, which was a first, and got home just in time for it to pour down, a perfect way to clean away the remnants of Carnaval de Salvador 2006.

Tomorrow we’re heading to Itacaré, Bahia, a beachside town, for a relaxing week of sitting in the sun where I’ll figure out what to do next. I’m currently thinking of heading into the Amazon for a couple of weeks, then Venezuela and Columbia before heading into Central America for a bit, but I’ll just have to see.