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What comes and goes and tourism up and down the shantytown in Rio de Janeiro (alternative tourism in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)

Start the interview by making a deliberately broad and general question, almost one of those questions with the other candidates battle it out in the electoral debates: It is possible to slum tours? Bianca Freire-Medeiros, the interviewee, I will only answer that question fully in the final minutes of our conversation. Not because she has shied away at the time to answer me, or because the question...

Learn more about the Pantanal of Mato Grosso - Brazil - (considered a natural heritage)

The Pantanal of Mato Grosso, located in Brazil, is an ecosystem with 250 square kilometers in length, and average elevation of 100 meters, located in southern Mato Grosso and in northwestern Mato Grosso do Sul, and also cover the northern Paraguay and eastern Bolivia (which is called the Bolivian Chaco), considered by UNESCO World Natural Heritage and Biosphere Reserve. The complex name comes from...

Come to know the Costa do Sauipe in Bahia - Brazil (Many photos)

Costa do Sauipe is a resort located on the Green Line on the northern coast of Bahia, in the municipality of Mata de Sao Joao, about 110 km from Salvador, is the largest center of tourism, leisure and business in Latin America, only 76 km north of Salvador. Located in one of the most beautiful regions of the northern coast of Bahia and has become one of the best resorts in Brazil. Was conceived as...

Brazilian cities receive international award in the tourism industry

Internationally recognized for its natural beauty, Brazil received two awards this month related to the tourism sector.Owner of one of the postcards Brazilian best known in the world - Niagara Falls - the city of Foz do Iguaçu (Paraná) won the Swiss Tourism Award for City of Water. Another was awarded city Joinville. The city was recognized for the preservation of historical heritage. Present at...

Go Skip Carnival in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil? Know All About Him

The Carnival is a major popular festival in Brazil, with the carnival of Rio’s richest and well-known, attracting thousands of tourists and foreigners. Every year, at the time of Carnival, the city of Rio de Janeiro breathe for five days an enviable air of joy. Cariocas forget problems and obligations and surrender to the gigantic spectacle of dance and magic. The culmination of the festival...

Folia de Reis is a great popular celebration in Brazil

Folia de Reis is a religious festival of Portuguese origin, which lasts 12 days (from 24/12 to 06 January, ie since the birth of Jesus Christ, even when that the Magi found Him). According to the book of Matthew (2, 1-12), the magi were wise men from the East, guided by a star to worship the divine Child in Bethlehem is speculated that they were not kings, and also do not know what exact number. There...

Carnival 2009: Playing the samba (music) of the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Here you can listen to the sambas (songs) of the samba schools of Carnaval to the panel. Plot - composers. Check here the best sambas of the Carnival of Brazil. Beija-Flor Enredo: No chuveiro da alegria, quem banha o corpo lava a alma na folia Compositores: Tom Tom, Marcelo Guimarães, Lopita, Jorge Augusto e Veni Vieira Grande Rio Enredo:”Voilá Caxias! Para sempre liberté, egalité, fraternité,...

The Cultural Center Jerusalem won the status of official tourist section of the state of Rio de Janeiro

The location, in Del Castilho, holds a model of more than 700 square meters of the city of Jerusalem. Opened in May 2008, the Jerusalem Cultural Center is another attraction of the World Cathedral of Faith, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and currently receives an average of 4 thousand visitors monthly, and 80% of the audience concentrated on the weekends. Foreign visitors now represent...

Tips for tourists traveling to Florianopolis - The Island of Magic! Santa Catarina - Brazil

Florianópolis is ideal for: sea-bathing, water sports, ecotourism, cultural tourism and history, tourism and business events and investment. Florianópolis is charming, exceptionally beautiful. A modern city, where new and old together so smoothly. In the Magic Island living and working people from the four corners of the world that once were in Floripa and fell in love the gorgeous beaches, lakes,...