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- Brasilia
- Capital
- Brazilian Real (BRL)
- Currency
- 174,468,575
- Population
- BR
- Country Code
Brazil Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Brazil
The Iguacu Falls
This is a top pick! ... site for the Tupi-Guarani and Paraguas Tribes. In 1986 they were declared a World Heritage Site. the falls are shared between Brazil and Argentina, with Argentina claiming the majority. A national park surrounds the falls on both sides of the border. The ...
Rio de Janeiro to Salvdor - Day 40
This is a top pick! ... multi-coloured litter scattered like confetti. It reminded me of the slums I've seen in the big cities of east Africa but Brazil is financially and economically a first world nation. Arrived at Rio's main bus station at 10am after another night ...
Rio Carnival: Rainy and Raunchy !
This is a top pick! I am sitting on Ipanema beach, it´s 6.30pm - the end of a long days sunbathing for most. All around me is the buzz of people chatting, wandering, drinking and flirting. The women are clad in virtually nothing and the men in the Brazilian version of ...
Sizzling Brazil
This is a top pick! When I landed in Brazil, I didn't think I knew a soul in the country. That was until I remembered Anna, a sweet architect that I met in Greece seven months ago. She lives in Rio de Janeiro and upon receiving my email asking to meet for ...
20 Million and counting
This is a top pick! With more than 11 million residents living the city itself and a further 10 million living in the greater metropolitan area, makes São Paulo the forth largest city in the world. With a population of this size there a bound to be loads to see and do and ...
Island of Honey
This is a top pick! ... still beautiful and very quiet; perfect for doing nothing. It is regarded as one of the most pristine beaches in all of southern Brazil due to its isolation. In order to visit the island you have you register on the mainland, Pontal do ...
All day beach fun! - With fantastic waves!
This is a top pick! It was a red hot beautifully sunny day today....so it was straight down to the beach. Today is another holiday in Rio, so the beaches were a bit more crowded by the afternoon, but it was still brill. We hit the huge waves again like a pair of excited ...
Paraty
This is a top pick! Alex: Paraty is only about 4 hours from Rio and seems to be a popular Brazilian holiday destination and rightly so. The town itself is all quaint cobbled streets and little colonial buildings, the shore is backed with steep jungle covered ...
Paraty
This is a top pick! Took it easy in Paraty. Got a local bus to the village of Trindade yesterday morning (Fri) which is 40 mins down the road. Another memorable bus journey, driver was flying it (the one on the way back was even ...
Howlin´ good time in the Pantanal
This is a top pick! Hrrr... hrrr... hrrr... The unearthly growls seemed to pierce the heat around us; we fell silent and stared up into the dense canopy, from where a black face scowled back down at us. He moved swiftly to the next tree, then the next, and we followed ...
The Brazil Countryside
This is a top pick! Finally, a change of scenery! My current travel partners and I, Guillermo and Jerome from Spain and France respectively, jumped on an early morning bus for Lençois, a small town 7 hours away from Salvador of about 7000 people making a living from ...
Gateway to the Pantanal
This is a top pick! We arrived early in Campo Grande, the gateway to the Pantanal (well one of them anyway!). As we left the bus we were accosted by the local tour agents trying to sell the benefits of their particular tour. We dutifully took the brochures and found ...
Carnaval 2006!
This is a top pick! I caught up to my friends from Lima here in Manaus Brazil where I will celebrate the infamous Carnaval... Brazilian style. Manaus is a huge city plopped right in the middle of the Amazon along the river; complete with high rise buildings and the leftover ...
Life's a beach in Ilha de Santa Caterina
This is a top pick! ... Praia dos Naufragados and Praia do Campeche where you can visit Ilha do Campeche, an ecological reserve perfect for snorkelling. This was our last stop in Brazil before our 27 hour bus to Buenos Aires, Argentina!! All our love, Hollie and Thomas x ...
The Last of Brazil
This is a top pick! A long 24 hour bus ride from Rio de Janeiro brings me to the tri-border town of Foz do Iguaçu where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay come together. It´s also home to the famous Iguaçu Waterfalls.... the only reason to come to these parts really. To ...
Drug lords, fireworks, machine guns and kids....
This is a top pick! We’re behind and we’re sorry. Our blog is running seriously behind and we’re sincerely sorry about that. We’re currently on an overland trip through South America which means a whole bunch of us are driving around the continent on ...
We're in Rio!
This is a top pick! Happy Birthday Daddy! So, after a bit of jetlag (well, a lot really we slept from 2.30pm Saturday until 9.30am today), we`re ready to hit the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Before our long sleep yesterday we strolled along Copacabana beach - how ...
Punta del Diablo to Florianopolis - Day 38
This is a top pick! ... to reach the biggest party on the planet, depending on bus availability. Tonight I travel to Florianopolis, a beach resort in southern Brazil, it's a 15 hour journey from the Uruguay border town of Chuy. Then I hope to catch another bus tomorrow to ...
Salvador (Carnival!!!) - Day 41-51
This is a top pick! Day 41 - 16/01/09 I've finally arrived in Salvador after the longest bus journey of my life. Feeling rather tired and jaded, really glad it's over. 3 days and nights on a bus is such a long time! Really looking forward to stretching my legs a little ...
Ilha Grande
This is a top pick! Ahhhhh, Ilha Grande. A Brazilian Tropical Paradise. It rained the night we arrived. Our hostel was up a bit from the main village in the trees. We were staying in a hut. Bedroom to the front and showeroom to the back. Lots ...
Sun and sand and beautiful and lovely....
This is a top pick! ... the real world, back to a home, friends and family. A few minutes into the flight I peered out the window looking back as Brazil was fading into the horizon and saw the most beautiful sunset of the entire trip. The entire sky had turned a crimson red as ...
The Drug Wars of Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! Hi all, Being in Brazil, has meant that Rio de Janeiro is a must see and we have been looking forward to for a while….just to see what all the fuss is about to be honest. At the time we thought it was just another city but Rio is the most ...
BRAZIL....Speedos, Crabs and Victor Lopes!!!
This is a top pick! ... make you need to...well you know.¨ Steve: ¨Why, has the maid said something?¨ Accommodations Brazil has a flourishing seedy motel business. You notice these places everywhere. The first time I spotted one, ...
The Pantanal
This is a top pick! Hi, Jason here - she's let me have a go at writing it for once! We left Sao Paulo on a 12 hour over night sleeping bus. Even after sending some luggage home with our Rio friends we still had enough to struggle with. We caught a bus from Campo ...
Dress shopping and Chopp!
This is a top pick! Alex: We landed in Rio at about 12 midnight and the whole city seemed to be against us. The only bank that would accept Visa wasn´t working so we couldn´t get any local currency (luckily we keep a few US dollars for these situations), we then lost more ...
Ilha Grande.
This is a top pick! So with the weather turning against us a little, ie rain and cloud which ruled out sight seeing the famous Christ on a Hill we headed off to the paradise island of Ilha Grande with another couple of guys we'd met at the hostel. Mike from England and ...
More beach time and a night out with Neil & Louise
This is a top pick! Oh, life's a beach isn't it! I love it on Ipanema beach. We spent another 4 hours there today and it was great. Also noticed there were a few more classy beach babes around today as well. Obviously I wasn't interested but I was keeping an eye on things ...
Copacabana Caipirinhas
This is a top pick! ... heard of anything so amazing?! Yesterday, the four of us lazed on Copacabana beach all day long, indulging in several Cairinhas (Brazil's national drink, made from rum, lime and sugar cane) throughout the day. Copacabana is great for people watching, and ...
Bus to Santarem (Day 1) - Day 74
This is a top pick! Swapped buses this morning after a smooth and comfortable 12 hour bus ride on smooth tarmac. There's going to be no tarmac for the next 800km! The new bus looks like a supped-up 4x4 "Superbus" with a big winch bolted on the front. This must be an ...