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Brazil Local Customs

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Detail View of Showerhead, including...
by glabah
Olodum children practising.
by cachaseiro
Taking a break in between drumming...
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Hammocks.
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Acarajé from street vendors
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Beach Rio de Janeiro

30 Reviews When you are in Rio you quickly realize that we all love the beach, no matter if the weather is fine or not, but we always find any reason to be close by the sea. Even when the sea is flat you will...

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Portuguese needed... or not? São Paulo

5 Reviews it's difficult to travel here without knowing some rudimentary Portuguese (even Spanish helps a lot! for some reason most Brasilian/Portuguese people can understand Spanish, but not the other way...

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Bahian dress Salvador da Bahia

4 Reviews When you enter Pelourinho in Salvador you’ll be met by baiana women wearing traditional Bahian dresses. The outfit of a baiana woman is turban, starched skirts of colourful pattern, shawl over the...

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local people Manaus

3 Reviews from the Manaus Region, have become very much aware of their Heritage and try to preserve their way of life and culture. much of their land has been confiscated, burned and left the tribes on a knifes...

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Cachaça and Caipirinha Rio de Janeiro

3 Reviews Cachaca is a spirit native to Brazil and is distilled from fresh sugarcane juice. Considered a member of the rum family, it is lighter than other rums which are molasses based. Cachaca has a light,...

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Good food ! São Paulo

3 Reviews The city's Italian community is large and vibrant, and much of their culture has found its way into the daily lives of every paulista (i.e. someone from São Paulo). However, the Italian influence is...

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Bahian Food Salvador da Bahia

7 Reviews Bahian cuisine has the influence of Portuguese, African and Indian cultures with a predominance of local exotic ingredients. Is characterized by the generous use of malagueta chili peppers and dende...

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Thumbs Up! Speak Portuguese Manaus

3 Reviews Brazil is not a bilingual country and, in Manaus, as well as the rest of Brazil, most people are not fluent in English or any foreign language. In shops and turistic points you' ll probably find...

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Fitas Salvador da Bahia

5 Reviews I went to Salvador in 2007 and had my wrist covered in these beautiful Bahia Wish Bracelets. Long story short, I long ago forgot about them and the story behind them until I recently came across them...

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fishing Manaus

1 Review fishermen at the port of Belem...the main income source for many in the 70s, has been still is I suppose, a spectaculare pasttime for tourist, when the Fishermen brought their catch home in the late...

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Berimbau Salvador da Bahia

3 Reviews The Brazilian berimbau is a single-string percussion instrument, braced musical bow or African origin. It consists of a wooden bow (traditionally made from biribi wood) about 1,2 - 1,5 m long, with a...

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Capoeira Salvador da Bahia

4 Reviews Capoeira is a unique Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, dance, music and acrobatics. But capoiera is much more; it is a ritual and a philosophy, a cultural tradition and a...

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Acaraje Salvador da Bahia

1 Review Acareje is street food eaten at any time as a snack. It consists of a patty, made from mashed feijao fradinho (black-eyed beans). The mash is deep-fried in dende oil (derived from a nut found on the...

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Dance Salvador da Bahia

2 Reviews I stayed in Bahia from 16th until 25th June (S. Joao). Everywhere you could hear "forro", and in the night there are forro bands all over. You´ll have to learn and dance it (and very close one each...

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Cafezinho Salvador da Bahia

2 Reviews At any time of the day you will see these little coffee-cars with with decorations beyond imagination especially in the city center. Some are very basic, but lots of them are equipped with fantastic...

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Carnaval Salvador da Bahia

2 Reviews New info on the last 2005 Salvador Carnaval in my new Travelogue. Carnaval is Locura Total : for 6 day and 6 night million of people dancing, singing and drinking. The old carnival consisted of big...

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hang gliding by niteroi

by gwened

well used to come to the Rio area a lot and been all over Brazil, now more often by Sao Paulo but the hang gliding activity from Niteroi was fantastic going down over the bay to copacabana beach.now you have some other outfits that do it from elsewhere , but still funhttp://www.riohanggliding.com/http://hang-gliding.rioadventures.com/http://www.glideinrio.com/glide_us/hanggliding.phpdont remember these outfits as was back in 2000 and was taken there by local friends but you should try it ,very nice indeed

Hammocks.

by cachaseiro

In most countries hammocks is something you put up for a few days a year in the garen but in Brazil it's something that many people sleep in every night, especially in the Amazon region.If you travel around Brazil for a longer period of time then i would suggest that you buy a hammock as many hotel rooms have hooks for hammocks and if you travel by boat in the amazon region then it might be the only option you have when it comes to sleep.The brazilian hammocks are also wider than most other hammocks in other countries.If you stretch them out then they are generally between one and a half and two meters wide so you do not need to sleep in "banana position" in a brazilian hammock.Hammocks are for sale on almost every market in Brazil and are quite cheap.

Brazilian Music: Sertanejo

by perfectly_zen

I cannot talk about local customs and not mention the ammount of distinct music styles we have in Brazil. Even though samba and bossa nova are the most known by foreigners, there are many other genres spread along the country, each with its share of ethnic heritage and originality.One of those styles is called sertanejo, music typical from the rural, central region of Brazil and constantly played on rodeo festivals.The original "root" sertanejo became popular around 1910, and is characterized by the predominant sound of the viola, performed mostly in vocal duets, with either emotional or funny lyrics. As time went by, sertanejo was influenced by pop culture and modern editing, originating other subtypes such as the romantic style (with influence of "country")or, the current fever amongst teens (and the sadness of oldstyle lovers), the sertanejo universitario. Nevertheless, if you come to...

How to Use an Electric Shower and Live Through It

by glabah

One of the popular 1960s guide books for American tourists in Brazil, of which I was able to find a copy in one of our local used book stores, says:"Western tourists may be confounded when presented with a Brazilian shower. Instead of a hot and cold water faucet, there is instead a deadly looking contrivance on the shower head with two wires sticking out of it. The adventurous tourist will discover, when the water is turned on, that the lights in the entire building suddenly go dim, that loud electrical sparking and sputtering sounds come from inside the shower head. and that the water gets very hot very fast."It should be fairly clear to anyone why a Brazilian would use one of these contraptions in their home over a large tank style water heater. It costs a lot of money to put both hot and cold water lines into a house, and other than for taking a shower Brazilians have learned to live...

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Spiritist Cults

by traveldave

When I was birdwatching on the Theodoro Trail high in the mountains above Rio de Janeiro, I came across a tree whose trunk was surrounded by candles, cups of rum or cachaça, cigars, and fruit (pictured here). This was a place where the rituals of one of Brazil's spiritist cults were performed.Brazil's early economy was based on the production of sugar. Slaves from Africa were imported to work on the sugar plantations and in other industries, such as mining. Their owners forbade them to practice their African religions and converted them to the Roman Catholic faith. Although many of the slaves earnestly converted to Roman Catholicism, many continued to practice their African religions, either in secret nighttime rituals, or during rituals disguised as Roman Catholic mass.Over the centuries, several spiritist cults evolved in Brazil, including Umbanda, Macumba (and its subcult Candomblé),...

LANGUAGE. LET'S GET STARTED !

by DAO

The people of Brazil speak Portuguese as a legacy of their colonial past. Here are a few phrases to get you started! Olá Hi Bom dia Good morning Boa tarde Good afternoon Boa noite Good night Como está? How are you? Muito bem, obrigada Very well, thanks Obrigada Thanks (for a woman) Obrigado Thanks (for a man) Adeus Goodbye Tchau Bye Até logo See you later

English to Portuguese

by cwest03

Knowledge of a few Portugues words will be helpful to anyone traveling in brazil. Try to make a list of just a few of the essentials to bring with you as you travel around. There are many good English to Portuguese dictionaries available on the web and VT is a good source of info too.

Caipirinha

by ant1606

Cachaça, made from fermented sugarcane, is the most popular local liquor which is the main ingredient for "caipirinha" along with chopped lime, sugar and plenty of ice cubes.Any occasion is appropriate, but sipping a glass or two on the beach is a must!

Drinking beer and watching football.

by cachaseiro

Yes i know this sounds like something you do all over the world, but the little local football bars are a bit of an institution in Brazil.They are just hole in the wall bars where the local working class guys meet for a few beers after work and there will always be a TV and if there is any football game on then it will be shown.I just love hanging out in these places and talking to the locals while sipping beer and watching football.in my opinion this is one of the best ways of catching the heartbeat of the nation.

When you are having a beer on the beach.

by cachaseiro

In Brazil they generally serve large beers on the beach they are served in containers that keeps the beer cool.The little beach bars often only have a few of these beer coolers, so if you are let´s say 4 guys going there for a beer then you are expected to get 4 glasses and one large beer to start with.tis is often very weird to europeans who are used to having "their own beer", but in Brazil you share your beer with your friends so you better get used to it.And it is a very sociable way of drinking and that way they can keep your beer cool.

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