South America's largest (and many would say sexiest) country has a lifetime's worth of experiences waiting, from the sands of Rio de Janeiro and modern architecture of Brasilia to the Amazon jungles, the wine country and cowboy culture of Rio Grande do Sul, and beyond.
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Vice Paes Latin America‘s largest country is home to a bewildering variety of biodiversity and natural landscapes, from jungles to deserts and tropical seashores to crisp Alpine mountains. Here are some Brazil highlights that nature lovers will want to put on their eco-bucket lists!read post
Read more…Many years ago, my girlfriend and I were on a mini-golf course on Cape Cod when I heard people behind us speaking in an unfamiliar language. I said to Lisa, "what is that, Hebrew?" Highly amused, she - a Portuguese major in college - replied "no, silly, they´re from Brazil!" (of course I did feel silly, but in my defense, at the time I was 19 and had not been exposed to many foreign languages beyond French, German, and Spanish). In the years to come, I too studied Portuguese a bit, and during…
Read more…dabidy I don´t have to tell you that Rio knows how to party, and Copacabana Beach hosts one of the most famous New Year's Eve celebrations (known here as Reveillon) in the world, attracting millions of revelers (many dressed in white for good luck). The night features breathtaking fireworks over the ocean, live music, and samba dancing, along with an especially local twist: Tossing flowers into the water as offerings to Yemanjá, the goddess of the sea. But be sure to get there early to…
Read more…Sarah BrownThough most famous for Carnival, golden beaches, and world-famous landmarks, the real heart of Rio de Janeiro, for those in the know, lies in its downtown, most notably in Saúde, Gamboa, and the surrounding neighbourhoods hard by the port. For it’s this area that’s steeped in a complex history that dates back half a millennium to the Portuguese colonisers’ founding of Rio and the centuries of brutal slavery which followed.A good place to start is Praça Mauá, a once rundown square…
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Rio De Janeiro Journal: Clamping Down on the Kaleidoscope of Rio’s Beaches
Luis Fernando Bensimon beamed as he looked away from the crystalline waters of Rio’s famed Ipanema Beach, away from the beautiful bodies perfecting their caramel-mocha tans just days before the city explodes with its annual Carnaval celebration.
Mr. Bensimon marveled instead at the plastic orange garbage bins lined up in the middle of the sand, and at the portable bathrooms along the sidewalk — sights he was not used to seeing.
“I have never seen the beach here so clean and orderly,” said Mr. Bensimon, 45, a Rio native who left the city 22 years ago. “It has improved a lot.”
Rio’s beaches, famous as much for their boisterous energy as for their natural beauty, are undergoing a makeover thanks to a “Shock Order” program by the city’s new mayor, Eduardo Paes.
But in the quest for order — a warm-up, of sorts, for the Olympics that will be held here — Mr. Paes is trampling on some storied Rio beach traditions and potentially putting hundreds, if not thousands, of beach vendors out of work in what is one of Rio’s most visible informal economies.
rest of article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/americas/10rio.html?ref=world
Brazil's tourism sector seems to be in a privileged position relative to other major tourist destinations worldwide.
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