I may not be at Salvador da Bahia’s Carnaval this year, but it sure is fun watching it from afar. Daniela Mercury looks incredible in her short white, black and blue frock and those matching stilettos are sublime. To score an idea of what Carnaval 2013 in Salvador is all about, check out her performance of “Rapunzel” below. This Carnaval route in Salvador is the best: you follow the trio (a massive jerry-rigged truck) along the Barra-Orinda route along Avenida Oceânic. Camarotes, or dance floors, overlook the route while the Atlantic Ocean beckons to the right. My experience there in 2010 was fantastic, so I am doing everything I can to keep track of the festivities in Brazil from thousands of miles away.

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Leon Kaye

Leon Kaye is the founder and editor of GreenGoPost.com and its advisory division, GGP Media. Contact him to discuss how he can work with your organization or event. His focus is making the business case for sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He writes for San Francisco-based Triple Pundit, Inhabitat and now The Guardian, for which he writes about corporate responsibility, water, and green building. He has also written for AIA's Architect Magazine. Leon works out of Fresno and Silicon Valley, California, and when he has free time, he enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, weightlifting, and planning his next trip to one of the 60 countries he has visited. He has an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and Cal State-Fresno.