I can’t explain to you how crazy Salvador Carnival is – words can’t describe the atmosphere or what it’s like to be there amongst it all. It’s chaos but kind of organised. There’s lots of police around so it feels pretty safe but the streets are jam packed, everyone is dancing and singing along to the music.

The carnival is basically massive trucks with bands on them and each truck has a cordoned off area around it known as a bloco. We had tickets for the Timbalada bloco and the music was amazing. Even in the bloco it was really busy and you get squashed a lot. But it doesn’t matter as everyone is having a great time. Our bloco had a group of male dancers who basically led the dancing – you just follow their moves. It is very hot and sweaty!

I had a lovely dance with a Brazilian guy, a policeman have me his number and another guy gave me a kiss. Faye was propositioned several times too!

One Brazilian guy, Kacias, took it upon himself to be out protector and made sure we didn’t get too trampled on!

We also saw a group of guys doing capoeira within our bloco – marshall art style dance fighting – which was really amazing to watch.

The whole route is around 5km and it took around 7 hours to dance to the end and then dance and walk back through the crowds.

I loved it, it’s super busy but it’s amazing, the music is a variety of traditional latin american with an African influence and also some more modern music. Everyone loves dancing – one Brazilian lady was impressed that two English girls could move like Brazilians!

I can’t wait to do it again later this week.

I have one photo of us before we left but we didn’t take our phones our with us as we wanted to just relax and enjoy ourselves and not worry about things getting stolen.

Carnival is definitelty the best street parties ever!