The DC Traveler

Here’s your chance to not only enjoy Mardi Gras Brazilian style, but to help save the Brazilian rain forest at another Carnival/Mardi Gras event in DC.
Professional samba instructors and a live samba band will help you enjoy dancing Rio-style at Carnaval at the National Zoo.
Enjoy international foods and Brazilian cocktails, participate in a silent auction were just watch the professional psalm the dancers entertained.  Plus you can get up close with some of the zoo’s favorite residence.
This even it is geared towards young professionals, but all are welcome (must be 21+). 
     
Carnival and Brazilian Dance Party
National Zoo
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First discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, he didn’t land on the island of Martinique until his fourth trip to the New World. The island was not colonized until almost 50 years later when a small group of French settlers started its first colony. The island has been a French possession ever since.
The island’s name Martinique, is a derivative of the native word for the island of flowers.
Napoleon’s Josephine, the daughter of a Martinique planter, was born on the island. And the 1944 classic Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film (where the two first met and started their lifelong love affair) …read more

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