Friday, January 22, 2010

The Grape Escapade 2010 - Goa

The Grape Escapade 2010 is the Wine and Haute Cusine Festival celebrated in Goa every year. This is the sixth Wine and Haute Festival. This is the festival that brands Goa as a "Life Style Destination". This festival is organised by Goa Tourism Development Corporation in association with Developement of Tourism. The Grape Escapade 2010 dates are from 23rd January to 26th of January 2010. It is a four day long festival. The festival venue is Inox Courtyard, Panjim-Goa. The high light of the festival is the Grape Escapade Queen 2010 which will be held on the last day. The timings for this festival is daily from 6PM. This festival brings all vineyard owners, wine makers, wine importers, sommeliers, hoteliers, restaurants and professionals from the entertainment and food lovers together. It is expected to attract more than 20,000 wine lovers and visitors.

Rio Carnival 2010

Rio Carnival is one of the famous carnival and biggest of any other carnival in the world. Rio carnival 2010 takes place through out the villages and towns in Brazil. It is a four day long carnival and the important place that gets noticed during this carnival is Rio de Janeiro.... About 5 lakh tourists will visit Rio de Janeiro to see this carnival. This years Brazilian Carnival takes place from 13th February to 16th February. Some of the important events in the Rio carnival are
Samba Parades in Sambodromo
Carnival Balls
Magic ball at the Copa
Street Parties
Street Bands
Sambodromo Rehearsals
Saba City
Merry Making in Lapa
Rio scala Balls
Samba Scholl Nights and more...

The most important dates of this carnival are 14th and 15th February... If you want to be part of the Samba parade and want to buy tickets for the Rio Carnival 2010 at Rio de Janeiro then visit the official website of the Rio Carnival http://www.rio-carnival.net. If you want to buy costumes for the parade of Samba you can purchase it using the above mentioned site.

Some of the hotels in Rio de Janeiro are Mar Ipanema Hotel, Astoria Hotel, Copacabana Palace Hotel, Arpoador Inn, Benidrom Hotel and more... Some of the beautiful photos of Rio Carnival.....



Look out the official site for more videos of the Rio Carniva. Brazil Rio carnival videos are also available online