Flirting with Monster fir.

The Brazilians have the largest. How could it be otherwise in this country that loves superlatives? Here are the most beautiful women, the best footballers, the longest carnival? and the largest floating Christmas tree in the world.
  85 meters measures the monster fir, as much as a 28-storey skyscraper - two years ago, he was in the Guinness Book of Records: Every year at Christmas time will be the largest floating Christmas tree in the world in the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas anchored by a natural lagoon in the middle of The tourist South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. For the inauguration on 29 November gathered 400,000 people, around the waters came to transport collapse.

With folding chairs and coolers full of beer flowing, the Cariocas, as residents of Rio are called, to the event. The lights will glow of Ungetüms flirted and danced until dawn. For the hawkers, the spectacle of the climax of their year: Only Carnival and New Year's Eve on the beach at Copacabana attract more visitors than the tree-hype.
Every year, invites the insurance company, the mega-event sponsors, including the foreign correspondents to visit. The Cariocas, as residents of Rio are called, envy them for the privilege, because ordinary mortals need a safety distance of 150 meters to hold the pontoons.
Sturdy shoes and helmets are required for the excursion on the 530 tonnes heavy monster. On the way to the pier to the visitor soldiers with bullet-proof vests and machine guns against. Photography is strictly prohibited, because the pier is a military exclusion zone, it is adjacent to the landing site for the armored helicopters of the military police responsible for combating the drug mafia in the favelas is responsible.
A small ferry takes visitors to the Christmas tree island. From the vicinity like the construction of a mixture of drilling and missile launching pad, it would be an ideal scenario for a James Bond movie.
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Fireman Reinaldo Memed keep guard on the platform. He fends Christmas tree from pirates who are trying to pedal out of the pontoons on board, and he controls the massive light and sound machine. Abel Gomes, the director of the spectacle, has the tree with 2.9 million mini-lights and 52 kilometers of light tubes equipped.
It blinks and flashes, lights cone of four giant headlamps wince through the sky over Rio. Every Saturday is fireworks, this year the lights will show the first time by a man accompanied glockenspiel. Evening by 20 clock booms "Jingle Bells" on the Lagoa that Christ wobbles.
Among incidents occurred so far this year not to Bescherung the largest floating Christmas tree in the world is used for firefighter Reinaldo and his colleagues are expected to run uninterrupted. Only once, three years ago, tore the steel fir in a gust of wind started. They drove across the Lagoa, until the opposite bank on ran.
A tractor cleared the Havaristen back quickly, the GAU remained, so Reinaldo: "The tree was like a one."