Meet The Sexiest Brazilian Samba Dancers From Sao Paulo Carnival 2014 

Thousands of revellers and samba dancers took to the street for the opening night of the annual carnival celebrations. Samba dancers wearing bodypaint, feathers, glitter- and not a lot else have taken to the streets of Sao Paulo for the opening of the countrys wild carnival festivities.

Dancers from local samba schools put on a spectacular parade through the huge Sambadrome arena as up to 30,000 revellers looked on. Similar to Mardi Gras, the five-day-long street party builds up to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. The carnivals excesses are considered an act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh, before Lent, during which Christians are supposed to abstain from bodily pleasures. Carnival is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil, but the festivities in Sao Paulo and capital Brasilia are the biggest with around half a million foreign tourists flocking to the country every year.

A reveler of the Perola Negra samba school performs during the second night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 1, 2014. The festival attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. Sao Paulos Sambadrome hosts a huge pageant with around 30,000 revellers. The Gavioes da Fiel samba schools theme for this years carnival is an homage to Brazilian former football star Ronaldo