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Parks and nature São Paulo
20 Reviews Despite being an ocean of concrete, São Paulo is filled with majestic trees and large green spaces. Many of its streets, particularly in the Jardins district, are lined with trees. When I visited in...
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THE BLACK RIVER..... Rio Negro Manaus
10 Reviews staying up late, the smell of the Jungle, the noises strange but intriguing. the Sunsets and Sunrise...sometimes the bloody Mosquitos ruined everything they are the real killers on the Amazon and the...
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X - Miscellaneous or not relevant São Paulo
31 Reviews Street names are a fascinating slice of culture. It is common, in São Paulo, to find that street names share a common theme. In the Jardins side of Paulista, several streets are named after cities in...
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Rainforest Manaus
5 Reviews the Rainforest will surprise and dazzle you with it's Flora and Fauna. halfday or daytrips into the Rainforest can be booked in Manaus Tree Orchids I have seen in abundance, the finest Flowers one can...
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Avenida Paulista and business São Paulo
15 Reviews Sao Paulo stinks.!!! It's without a doubt one of the worst places to visit and live I've ever been to. IIf you HAVE to go there I'm sorry. Do it and get out quickly. feel extremely sorry for the...
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Downtown Manaus Manaus
4 Reviews The Opera House, The Amazonas theatre was inaugurated on December 31st 1896, and it is the most important architectonic building from the prosperous rubber period and main artistic cultural patrimony...
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MASP and museums São Paulo
5 Reviews *****What I miss most about SP, jeez, do we have that long?! But here's my favorite elevator view of all time...looking southward, you can see just how darn close we were to the renowned Parque...
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have I got a cemetery for you... Manaus
2 Reviews One of my fondest memories of my week in Manaus was our walk through its historical SAO JOAO BATISTA CEMETERY. The heat and sunlight were merciless and sapped a bit of the life out of us (!?) but wear...
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I‘ve visited Tabatinga during... Manaus
1 Review I‘ve visited Tabatinga during the 80s. Tabatinga's original market, featured in these images, has been demolished and replaced by a more functional concrete building. Goods for sale include fruits and...
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Waterlilies Manaus
1 Review a little Baby could sit quite easily on the leafs without any problems..the stem is strong, connected to the water like an anker. VICTORIA REGINA, named after the english Queen Victoria, when I'm not...
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Don't miss out on the beaches.They are not just great, but the brazilians really know how to make them a fun place to be.Unlike mosrt other countries the beaches are the center of the social life and therefor mostly full of people doing all sorts of things.The beaches in Brazil is for so much more than just tanning.
You should stay for a while in each place so you get to know the brazilians.They are the biggest attrction in Brazil and they are generally very curious about foreigners and love to hang out with you and invite you to whatever party they are heading for next. That's difficult to say when you consider that Brazil has the best music, the best beaches and the most beautiful women in the world.
Oscar Niemeyer is one of the most important persons in the history of Brazil.He is an architect that is first of all known for being the person who was behind the creation of the capital Brasilia, but he has created many buildings and cities in Brazil and for that matter around the world.He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907 and is at the time of writing (november 2009) still alive.One of the more controcversial things about Niemeyer is that he has been a member of the communist party for most of his life and at one point even been the leader of the brazilian communist party and been send in to exile at one point because of that.His architecture is very futuristic and very science fiction like it is mostly so that you either love his works or hate them.
To plan the trip and to get around in my country I often use a brazilian guide named 'Guia 4 Rodas'.You can buy it at newspapers kiosks, it is renewed every year and it comes with a road map, it´s really nice. http://viajeaqui.abril.com.br/g4r/
-VT member marsistanbul has asked me several times to publish my story about Brazil’s former football star Sócrates on VT, and so, here it is. I have to note that I wrote this story in March 2001, and one little thing has not become reality: Sócrates did not become president of Brazil’s football federation. On the other hand, he has done some more incredible things, like composed a musical named “O futebol”, and published a CD. Although I must admit that the musical surprised me slightly nothing this man ever does can really surprise me because he is so full of surprises and talents. The musical which had its premiere in July 2005 is about football, as the title suggests, and tells of all the drama and beauty that make the game so popular. Sócrates composed eleven songs and collaborated with an established music professor named Kleber Mazziero. A Picture-Perfect RevolutionaryAs an active...
Capoeira (Tupi-Guarani word for - clear area) is a blend of martial art, game, and dance originated in Brazil. It is difficult to explain capoeira, but a famous Brazilian has once described it as "a dance which is a fight and a fight which is a dance". Capoeira is originally from the regions of Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo, but I have also seen the dance other places. It was the African slaves who first used capoeira, and it is said that "capoeira was born out of burning desire for freedom". There are to main styles in capoeira: The regional is fast, dynamic and very aggressive. The Angola is geared toward cooperation and dance and is referred to as a game. Participants in capoeira form a circle (roda) within the two players wage a simulated fight (jogo). The most important is not fitness but the ability to observe and find the weak points of an...
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You must taste the caipirinha... the national cocktail in Brazil. Caipirinha is made with cachaça, sugar, lime and crushed ice, and is one of the best cocktails I have ever tasted - a very refreshing drink.A caipirinha is only made with cachaça! Made with vodka instead of cachaça, it's a caipirosca - and with rum it's a caipirissima!
When you are in Brazil, you must try a typical Brazilian churrasco (a barbecue with beef and grilled meat).The range of barbecued meats include pork (porco), beef (bife), chicken (frango), goat (cabrito), chicken hearts and linguica (a spicy Brazilian sausage). Most of these churrasco restaurants are all-you-can-eat restaurants. The waiters will go around the restaurant with the skewers, slicing the meat on your plate. This serving style is called Espeto Corrido or Rodizio.
One of the great indicators of how generous Brazilian people are is their attitude to foreigners speaking their language. I went to Brazil as a language student, but one who was shy and in the past had been nervous of speaking. Reading, writing - fine. Speaking - stressful.Well, Brazil changed that. People will come up and talk to you, so that even the most reluctant linguist will learn at least some Portuguese. And if you're a student of the language as I was, you'll come on in leaps and bounds. Strangers are keen to teach you local words and find out why you're interested in Portuguese.One interesting thing I noticed was that if you already speak some Portuguese people will assume you're from another part of the country. I was often asked in Salvador if I was a gaucha, or girl from the south. It illustrated to me the huge physical space of Brazil and the differences between its...
Copacabana Palace Rio de Janeiro
21 Reviews and 355 Opinions A veritable Rio landmark, Copacabana Palace continues to enjoy a reputation as one of the most...
Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi São Paulo
4 Reviews and 200 Opinions ALL PICTURES ON PAGE 1 ( PICS 1 - 5 ) AND ON THIS PAGE # 6 AND 7 TAKEN IN SEPTEMBER 2003 , PICTURES...
Aram Yami Hotel Salvador da Bahia
1 Review and 100 Opinions I did not stay at the hotel, but my good friends did and I visited them there, hung out in the...
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Q: Hi there! I am looking for people, who love dancing, have attended or are planning to attend Brazilian dance (Samba, Forro)...
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