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Brazil
is the country of the soccer, samba, of the marvelous
women, of the most 3.000 miles of beaches and of the folklore.
Brazil is a country whereupon the religions lives in peace,
the people get the most out of life and some of them have
mysticism. This is a country with a rich bio-diversity that
gives a special characteristic in each region. A country to
practice sport, dancing, mysticism and music. The World came
to know the Popular Brazilian Music (MPB) by the voices of
Tom Jobin, Vinicius de Moraes, Chico Buarque de Holanda, Caetano
Veloso, Daniela Mercury, … Actually, the musician Gilberto
Gil is in charge of the Minister`s Culture of an “intellectual
organic”government, that take the emergency of the dominant
social class like priority. We are talking about our President,
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva that worked with metallurgy
years ago, before his political live. That’s Brazil.
You have to visit!
At Amazonian the fauna riches in this region is enormous and
there exists the biggest tropical forest of the Planet Earth.
Overflying the Amazon Forest from Manaus to Parintins you
can see a little bit of what is hidden in the jungle. There
is the biggest hydrical basin of the world.
You’ll
see the most exuberant natural reserve at Pantanal Matogrossense
and an enormous depression that is in the extreme north of
the plating plain, where there is the formation of a lot of
lakes. One of the greatest attractions in this region is undoubtedly
the observation of wildlife.
If
you like a different style of dancing, at Pernambuco you’ll
know the frevo. That is dance-driven march played in a very
fast, binary tempo. The feverish style also made its way into
the intimacy of bossa nova: the accelerated compass seduced
Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes. Frevo also stimulated
Gilberto Gil to include electric guitars in his Frevo Rasgado,
in the midst of the tropicalist eruption.
Fernando
de Noronha is a veritable oasis seemingly lost in the surrounding
blue see. The archipelago is circled of beaches. Some of them
are better adapted to diving, others to swimming, contemplation
or surfing. By foot you can venture across the exotic beaches
squeezed between cliffs, caves and hills.
The
Lençois Maranhenses National Park is a geological formation
of the erosion of wind and water on the Maranhão coast.
We'll take dune buggies through the immense and surreal sand
dunes of Lençois. The bumba-meu-boi is a very popular
comic-dramatic dance, which tells the story of the death and
resurrection of an ox. It is a parade of human and animal
characters, and fantastic creatures from Brazilian Indian
mythology.
Carnival
in Bahia is the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations
in world, a weeklong Carnival celebration that brings more
than two million people to the streets of Salvador, the capital
of Bahia. Bahia is a place, where many people practice the
candomblé: a dynamic and monotheist religion. At Abrolhos
Bank, in Parque Nacional Marítimo, you see an abundance
of humpback whales jubarte.
Minas
Gerais is the cradle of the historics cities. In Congonhas
the major attraction to the city is its barroque art. Tiradentes,
also in the state of Minas Gerais, preserves its beautiful
colonial architecture, stone-paved roads and barroque churches.
Rio
de Janeiro is the sweetheart of the musician of MPB. They
make an avowal of love to the marvelous women and beaches.
At Sambódromo, the “Escolas de Samba” make
a veritable show of percussion, charm and boldness. Other
tourist spot you have to know is the Tijuca Forest, the biggest
in an urban city. At Petrópolis you’ll know the
Palace of Crystal.
Located
in the western Paraná region of southern Brazil, in
Foz do Iguaçu you’ll see the Iguaçu Falls,
one of the main attractions. Situated in a heavily forested
area. Another attraction is the subtropical nature reserve
in the Parque Nacional do Iguaçu.
In
Rio Grande do Sul, the coldness and the nature seduce the
people into the Serras Gaúchas. Where you’ll
adventure inside the valleys, besides the trails that lead
you to magic places like Cachoeira Rodrigues and Pico Montenegro,
the highest top of the region
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Brazil
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