Brazil

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 beaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazil Travel Story - Servants, slaves and Unintentional Seduction

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

Brazil is a world leader in economic indifference. The division of wealth here is so appalling that you wonder why no one ever seems to talk about it. The glitzy ...

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

Most tourists get the wrong idea about Brazilian sexuality. The media hype Brazil as a land of easy sex in order to draw millions of foreign men each year to ...

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 :: Brazil Photo Guide - Beaches, Rio, and Iguasu Falls

Posted on Mar 28, 2007 by Jim Klee. Filed in: Photo Guides - Brazil

Brazil, as the ultimate visceral country, has it all. This motley collection of pics has the booze, people, birds, beaches and waterfalls but still feels like it misses the essence of the country completely.