Brazil
- Population: 182.8 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Brasilia
- Area: 8.55 million sq km (3.3 million sq miles)
- Major language: Portuguese
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 66 years (men), 74 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 real = 100 centavos
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Brazil Travel Guide Online
Brazil is just huge, larger than the USA if you don’t count Alaska. A good chunk of it is inaccessible Amazon rainforest but with 7000km of
Brazil Culture Guide
Brazilian culture is frequently lost behind the cliches of the non stop party and samba girls in sequin bikinis. Get a bit closer though and you’ll see what the heart ...
Carindiru, World Film Reviews
Carindiru is the film based on the book of the same name by Drauzio Varella, memoirs of his experience as a doctor working in the jail of Sao Paolo, Brazil. ...
Quilombo Country - World Film Reviews
Quilombo Country is that dubious creation, a documentary made with an agenda. On the first page of the press release we’re told twice that the film is narrated by the ...
Video Clips of Brazil's Favelas and Ghettos
Beyond the hotels, beaches and the carnival party packages that draw thousands of tourists to Brazil every year, there lies the reality of everyday Brazil that the brochures never show. ...
Sex Still Sells in Brazil - TV ads
Whilst the rest of the world may have gotten the idea that women are more than sex objects, Brazil still lingers with the notion that girls in bikinis are what ...
A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb – Travel Book Reviews
A Death in Brazil is a book that demonstrates a great writing talent with lush, florid passages that sweep the reader onto the stage of a slum in Rio ...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Coke and Favelas
A factor of living in third world countries like Brazil is that you can’t usually trust the police. They stopped and searched me a couple of times near my apartment ...
Ipanema Apartment, Rio de Janeiro
I found and rented a apartment in Rio de Janeiro after only one afternoon of looking around. The ad had been put in the paper by a little old lady ...
A Brazilian Prostitute
I’d met Luciana in the street during the Carnival in Brazil and she invited me to stay her afterwards in her apartment on the other side of Recife. But from ...
Sexy Brazil Carnival in Olinda
As a kid in England I remember that the third most exciting day in the Christian calendar (after Present Day and Chocolate Egg Day) was Shrove Tuesday. 40 odd days ...
Servants, Slaves and Unintentional Seduction in Brazil
The wealthy in a poor country tend to be far richer than the wealthy in a rich country. There may not be quite as many zeros in their bank accounts ...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Poverty, Poodles and Favelas
The inequalities of wealth in Brazil were so appalling that I couldn’t understand why no one ever seemed to talk about it. The glitzy shipping malls in Rio de Janeiro ...
Rio de Janeiro Nightlife
Despite its fame as the party capital of the world it took me a few weeks to even find the nightlife in Rio de Janeiro, especially in my part neighbourhood, ...
Brazil Carnival - Falling in Love
The media hype Brazil as a land of easy sex in order to draw millions of foreign men each year to enjoy the Carnival. And like any major sex tourist ...
Rio de Janeiro, Love in Lapa
Lapa is the only real Rio nightlife for me. It’s a street in a historic district of the city where all classes and ages of people come to mingle through ...
Brazil Amazon Hell Trip
When most people think of a river trip they imagine a peaceful excursion along the shores of Nature, picnics in the sun and an old boat creaking along in the ...
Brazil Guide to Beach Culture
In many places in Brazil the beach is a religion that competes with Catholicism for the hearts and minds of the people. No self-respecting carioca (inhabitant of
Dating Brazilian Girls & Guys
Brazil is very liberal sexually and encounters are taken very lightly. To kiss someone means no commitment whatsoever in many cases and is just part of the evening’s entertainment. To ...
