Category: Brazil
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Brazil nut We return to the South American mainland from the Falkland Islands for the third and last of three chicken-and-egg etymologies. So far, we’ve …
For example, proper public conduct in Argentina, where etiquette is taken seriously, includes: Addressing people by a title (Mr. or Mrs.), and when shaking hands, inclining the head to …
Feijoada is the Brazilian feast dish, originally a dish made up of leftovers given to the slaves by their masters. A kind of stew, it contains pig’s feet, tongue, …
A million and a half people live in Brazil’s remote capital, Brasilia. The site was deliberately selected because it was thought that Brazil would never attain its fated greatness …
Ethnologists, or the simply curious, can meet a few of the Amazon Indians via a package tour. Want to take a blowgun lesson from a Yagua Indian or dance …
The climate can scarcely be more monotonous hot, humid and daily rains with more rain during the rainy season, January to June. The temperature difference from hot to cool …
Even with its immensity, the determined traveler can fly direct from Miami to either Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon River, or to Manaus, the unofficial capital of …
One of the most awesome, and in some ways, frightening, of exotics is a trip on the Amazon, mightiest of rivers, almost the longest. With its ten thousand tributaries …
Sao Paulo has Ibirapuera Park, largest of its kind. The park covers two million square meters and contains ten exhibition halls. The Zoological Park is also the largest in …
