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Christ The Redeemer, Corcovado Rio de Janeiro
201 Reviews As you stand at the feet of the Christ, you will be able to pick out other city landmarks such as Copacabana beach and the world-famous Maracana football stadium. Standing with outstretched arms,...
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Parque Ibirapuera São Paulo
34 Reviews Designed in 1954, but built only in 2005, Auditório Ibirapuera is the work of the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer. The ultra-modern music hall is considered one of the best venues for concerts in São...
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Churches Salvador da Bahia
26 Reviews We went for a long walk in the historical district and passed a few of Salvador's many churches. But only a few of them… It is said that Salvador has 365 churches - one for each day of the...
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Take a trip along the river,... Manaus
29 Reviews We had a nice tour with Amazon Backpackers. We left Manaus with a comfortable boat to the Meeting of the Waters, where 2 river flow together to build the Amazon River. Then we visit a kind of floating...
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Beaches Recife
12 Reviews A good option to visit Recife is to take a boat tour along Capibaribe river. "Catamaran Tours" offers a few options of tours. "Rio Capibaribe e suas pontes" (Capibaribe River and its bridges),...
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Sugar Loaf - Pão de Açucar Rio de Janeiro
163 Reviews It may be more than a little touristy, but there´s many a good reason why visitors flock to take the cable car ride up to the top of Sugar Loaf mountain. Rising sheer out of the ocean and towering...
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Beaches São Paulo
10 Reviews Santos is a very interesting place that I got to go 2 when I went to Brasil. Not too far from Sao Paulo and recommended if you can't make it 2 Rio (which I couldn't). Pros: Shopping areas close by,...
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Pelourinho Salvador da Bahia
33 Reviews If you're trying to decide which museum to visit in Largo do Pelourinho, go to this one instead of the Museu da Cidade. Once again the signage is exclusively in Portuguese (people must have thought I...
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Opera House, Museo do Indio Manaus
20 Reviews This remarkable place was built in the midst of the Amazon jungle in 1896 at the peak of the rubber boom. It took 15 years to construct. On entering a unique marble lobby is revealed inlaid with...
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Recife Antigo Recife
8 Reviews A strong effort is being made in Recife's historical area, recuperating its most beautiful buildings. Before leaving Portugal, a friend told me that he didn't like Recife, because it was old,...
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Copacabana Rio de Janeiro
127 Reviews Atlantic ave is one of the world's most beautiful ave......but a warning to all.....be aware of your surroundings.....people try to sell you anything at all times....even when eating people stick...
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Liberdade - Japan in São Paulo São Paulo
13 Reviews Liberdade is the Japaneese neightborhood in Sao Paolu, yes I´ve said Japaneese and not Chineese. Many Japaneese people came to Brazil after the 2WW, and many of them stablished in Sao Paulo. It´s a...
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Praia do Forte - Tamar Project Salvador da Bahia
5 Reviews Everyone in Salvador was saying how lovely Praia do Forte was, in fact, they were saying it in Rio too. The travel books made it seem like a small resort town. We've got enough of those here so I...
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Municipal Market Manaus
11 Reviews The Mercado Municipal is an expansive market building which stands on the bank of the Rio Negro. The 1882 building is inspired by the ‘Les Halles’ in Paris and covers more than 12.000 square meters....
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Olinda Recife
5 Reviews It is not Recife, but it so close and so connected, that it would be a "crime" if I skip this information. Olinda deserves its own page, and you just need to follow the link.
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Carnaval Rio de Janeiro
73 Reviews Sambadromo and a few Street parties attended. First thing about Rio 1) You need some Portuguese, not essential but people may ignore if you speak in English 2) They may have beautiful people but not...
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Avenida Paulista São Paulo
19 Reviews One of the most fashionable addresses in the city, Rua Oscar Freire is the heart of the luxury commercial area of São Paulo: Jardim Paulista. This district (not to be confused with Jardim Paulistano)...
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Beaches Salvador da Bahia
15 Reviews The lighthouse in Salvador is sitting very pretty on a little cape just where the beaches begin. It plays an important part in the history of salvador and you hear it mentioned in songs very...
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Floating Dock (2) Manaus
10 Reviews Lots of sights and smells here in the fish market. Its not just fish, they also sell all kings of meats, fruits, veggies and other things. We got here around 3pm and things were starting to shut down,...
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Boa Viagem Recife
7 Reviews We stayed at Boa Viagem, and took there most of our swims. The beach is long but not spectacular. The long reef along the coast protects from surf and sharks, but risks to make the bath very...
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Ipanema Rio de Janeiro
78 Reviews Ipanema, Copacabana or Leblon, for an out comer, are just names of successive areas of this beach (with Arpoador in the middle, standing as a geological "accident") . We stayed in Leblon, and...
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Flea markets São Paulo
5 Reviews This one belongs to "what to do " just as to "off the beaten path". The various artesanal fairs that spring up on weekends all over town. Here are three examples of inner city weekend fairs of high...
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Morro de Sao Paulo - Tinharé Salvador da Bahia
5 Reviews A very different thing to do when you visit Salvador is take a boat “catamaran” to Tinharé island and spend some days at Morro de São Paulo, sailing or doing nothing, but always enjoying the place...
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Ponta Negra Beach Manaus
3 Reviews This place is right next to Tropical Hotel, and one of the upscale parts of town. Its the best place to sit down with a beer in the evenings/nights, enjoy the boi dances performed in the street - side...
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Instituto Brennand Recife
5 Reviews The main building houses a collection of art, focused in the influence of Netherlands in Brazil. It's a rich and beautiful collection, but for someone who knows what Portugal meant to the history and...
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I went there three times, only one was sunny but I had no camera...So when we get back I get one and unfortunaatly it was a cloudy day...But its a gorgeous garden with palm trees so high...Many flowers ... and an idea of what was the mata atlantica, even if its more expressive in the Tijuca forest...
We finished our tour in Praia do Forte. This is the name of both a traditional fishing village on Brazil’s north eastern coast, and a purpose-built resort on its outskirts. In fact we chose this resort to end our tour precisely because it was on the edge of a village rather than isolated as so many tourist resorts are. If I’m in Brazil I like to be able to feel that I’m in Brazil, not in some anonymous could-be-anywhere international resort. I liked the way the village and resort here co-exist closely and support each other. The beach where holiday makers sun themselves is the same beach that locals use for their fishing, and on several occasions we saw tourists helping out in hauling in the nets. The villagers used to augment the meagre living they made from fishing through an illegal trade in turtles’ eggs, threatening the species; now they can earn enough from the resort and from...
This city in the north east of Brazil had a very different atmosphere to the other places we stayed. Here you are much more aware of Brazil’s colonial past and its links, through past involvement in the slave trade, to Africa. São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, to give it its full name, was founded by Portuguese settlers as the first colonial capital of colonial Brazil. It quickly became its main sea port and an important centre of the sugar industry and the slave trade. Its rich cultural heritage owes much to the latter: an estimated 1.3 million slaves were imported into Bahia before slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, double the number imported into the entire United States of America. Nowadays this dubious past is evident in the diverse ethnic mix of the population, the music, dance and cuisine. It also results in a very different atmosphere from that of Brazil’s more...
A real must for any traveller in Brazil is a visit to the Amazonian rainforest. There are accommodation options catering to all budgets, from pretty basic camping through to luxury lodges. All of them have to be accessed by water, usually departing from Manaus.We stayed at the Amazon Village Lodge, a mid-price range option with accommodation in small wooden huts. It was a fantastic experience, highly recommended for anyone interested in wildlife or in other cultures, although you need to be prepared for the very high temperatures and humidity. Attractions include boat rides through the backwaters, walks in the forest and night-time caiman viewing. Please see my separate Amazon page for more about our visit there.
Manaus is the gateway to the Amazonian rainforest for most visitors, but also has some attractions of its own. It is most famous for its impressive 1896 opera house, which has staged performances by many of the world’s greats, such as Caruso and Pavlova.The Amazon created Manaus. It began as a small fort, São José da Barra, created in 1669 by Portuguese settlers as a defence against Spanish incursions into Brazil by way of the Amazon River. On November 13, 1832, the settlement gained the status of of a town and was named "Manaus", after the indigenous tribe, the "Manaós", who once inhabited the area. In the local language, the word means "Mother of God". On October 24, 1848, Manaus was awarded the status of city with the name Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro, renamed Cidade de Manaus eight years later. From 1890 to 1920, Manaus was a rubber boomtown. The plantation owners became...
From Rio we flew to Iguaçu. This was possibly my favourite of the places we visited in Brazil. I'm always moved by the power of waterfalls and these are some of the most amazing I've seen. They're on a truly grand scale, over 3km wide and 80m high, and yet you can get right up close and personal to experience the power of the water thundering over them at close quarters. As well as walks on boardwalks right by the edge of the falls you can also take a boat ride right under the spray. And for a different view, take a side trip into Argentina where there is an even greater choice of walks.One of the nicest aspects of Iguaçu is how well maintained the surrounding area is, with well-kept paths to help you explore and a very natural setting. There are hundreds of butterflies, many of which will come to land on your hands.We stayed at the top-range hotel choice here, the Tropical Iguaçu Falls...
A few hours drive south of Rio is this pretty, well-preserved colonial town, (also sometimes spelt Paraty, and pronounced Par-a-CHEE). I loved the colourful paintwork on the doors and windows of its traditional houses, including the charming Pousada Porto Paraty (now the Porto Imperial) where we stayed for a few nights. Parati is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with beautifully preserved colonial architecture. It was a port, a working-class kind of town, so the architecture is simple: even the churches and municipal buildings seemed to have been built more for daily use than as a statement of wealth. The town first grew in importance in the 1800s when it became the main shipping port for the gold from nearby mines. The gold was transported down windy trails and cobblestone roads from Ouro Prêto to the coast, where it was loaded onto ships sailing for Portugal. Once gold became scarce,...
We started our trip to Brazil, as I imagine most people must do, with a few days in Rio de Janeiro. I have always loved cities by the sea, and Rio fits the bill beautifully. The sweep of each bay is perfectly set between a series of headlands, the most famous of which is the steep outcrop of the Sugarloaf or the Pau de Açucar. And behind the city the hills are still covered in places by vestiges of the ancient rainforests, while on the highest the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer stands as if to protect the city. This beauty of course masks considerable poverty, which it is all too easy for the short-term visitor to forget. But that doesn’t make this anything other than an amazing destination and one to which I would love to return some day.Although we only had a few days we managed to see quite a lot. Of course we went up the Sugar Loaf mountain, and also up to the Christ the...
One of the best times to visit Pelourinho is Tuesday evening when Olodum, the drummers made famous by Paul Simon, hold open rehearsals, filling the balmy night air with their wonderful sound.Check out! GREAT.
The Bird Park is a private enterprise, situated in one of the most attractive parts of the world: near the Iguaçu Falls in the state of Paraná, Brasil.The entrance charge per person is US$ 10,00. (American Dollars).It is definitely worth to go, you see hummingbirds, Toucan, huge butterflys and and and ..
Copacabana Palace Rio de Janeiro
21 Reviews and 352 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 201 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 96 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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