Brazil

It's impossible to review this vast and exciting country in two thousand words. This offering is intended to encourage your first visit and, I hope, to answer a couple of the more common questions. I lived here in the mid-Nineties, writing guide books. The Brazilians have a word, "saldades", for the poignant feeling of missing something, or someone, very badly. I still have saldades for Brazil. Literally half the South American continent, Brazil is only smaller than Russia, Canada and China. Like those countries, it has vast unpopulated areas and covers a multitude of terrains. A very 'new' country - some of the borders are still in ...  Read the complete review

Well being Brazilian i am going to comment about something that i know deeply! Its not because i am from there but its such a beautiful country that like any other has its issues but overall its an amazing country. Brazil has been discovered by Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500. Being colonized by the Portuguese brought us a lot of influences from Europe. Before the Portuguese were there , the Dutch have been there also and left their culture in the north of Brazil. Brazil has a vast mix of races because the country have been receiving a lot of different nationalities since 1860, today Brazil is the biggest Japanese Comunity outside Japan, also it has a lot ...  Read the complete review

So far I have been to Brazil a total of 6 times. In total I spent there more than 6 months, I have been to quite a few places and cities and I speak the local language, which is Portuguese, but with some local words and with a different accent and intonation than in Portugal and I love their music and off course, I am also an admirer of their women. I normally fly either to Sao Paolo or to Rio. Flights to Sao Paolo from LONDON CAN BE BOUGHT FOR LESS THAN 400 POUNDS FOR A RETURN TICKET, UNFORTUNATELY taxes seem to take more and more of the cost of the ticket. I also flew to Brazil from Madrid on a couple of times. Going to Brazil is always ...  Read the complete review

Leaving UK soil at 6am on the 30th of June, I was prepared to arrive in Porto Alegre, Brazil 22 hours later. However, a delayed flight meant I missed the last connecting flight of the day from Rio de Janeiro. Fortunately, I was put up in a very posh hotel in the airport, where the waiter was convinced I was prince William! My first impression when finally arriving in Porto Alegre, the south's capital city at 12am local time, was of a rundown America. It seemed everything had been touched by the American influence - from the traffic lights and overhead electricity transformers to the drive through banks (and of course McDonalds). The City?s infrastructure ...  Read the complete review

The Pantanal is located in eastern central Brazil and is one of the planet's most important ecosystems. It lies on an enormous plain cut across by the Paraguay river and its tributaries. Thousands of animal and plant species have made in their home, among them the tremendously varied birdlife which include many visitors from others parts of the Americas as well as as the native species. These birds that use the area as a habitat or as a reproduction area bring their color and vivacity to the region and so heighten our enjoyment of one of the greatest spetacles of nature on Earth. This home page portrays some of the most outstanding species of the Pantanal, describing ...  Read the complete review