There's a version of Brazil that only exists for about ten days a year, and this is it.

From the street blocos and Sambadrome parades of Rio at Carnival's peak, north to Salvador da Bahia — the spiritual home of Afro-Brazilian culture, where capoeira, Candomblé and samba-reggae aren't performances, they're daily life.

Six nights in Rio timed around the Grupo Especial parades, three nights in Salvador's Pelourinho, and a domestic flight between the two. This is Brazil at its loudest and most alive.