Forget glitter, this Carnival party in southern Brazil is all about mud

George Jiglea

PARATY, Brazil (AP) — Revelers heading to Carnival parties in Brazil typically don colorful, skimpy outfits and splatter glitter everywhere, but near an old colonial town in the south of the country people cover themselves in something very different – mud. Partakers in this unusual Carnival party in Paraty drape gray sludge on themselves and roll around in the silty shallows of a beach, forming a unified mass. “Everyone is kind of the same (…), those who have money and those who don’t:

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