PARATY, Brazil — Several hundred mud-covered Carnival revelers paraded in the sleepy seaside town of Paraty in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, a decades-old tradition that has grown ever larger since ...

1 / 20Revellers enjoy the traditional "Bloco da Lama" or "Mud Street" carnival party, in Paraty, Brazil. Legend has it the "bloco" was born in 1986 after local teens hiking in a nearby mangrove forest ...

Teenagers playing with mud started the Bloco da Lama in 1986 and it has since become an annual event in the city of Paraty. Hundreds of people wrestle, coat each other in mud and throw it around to ...

PARATY, Brazil (AP) — Mud-covered revelers took over the beach in Paraty, Brazil, on Saturday as part of a Carnival tradition that has grown steadily since it began 40 years ago. In the seaside town ...

1 / 20Revellers prepare for 'Bloco da Lama', a mud carnival in Paraty, about 250km south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 'Bloco da Lama' was started in 1986 by two teenagers playing with mud. AFP 2 / ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities have suspended Carnival festivities in the Brazilian city of Paraty after gunfire killed one person and injured nine others. The mayor’s office of the seaside ...

PARATY, Brazil — 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 ...

Near one of Brazil's most traditional colonial towns, a bizarre carnival craze erupts each year - a 'parade' in which the only costume required is layers of thick, dark, sticky mud Credit: AP Hundreds ...

Near one of Brazil's most traditional colonial towns, a bizarre carnival craze erupts each year - a 'parade' in which the only costume required is layers of thick, dark, sticky mud Credit: AP Hundreds ...