Brazil

Brazil Part 2 - Boas Festas do Brasil

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January 12th 2008
After a few hours sleep I arose to see the Christmas day sunrise over the ocean in Copacabana. I was meeting Lara in her old home city of Recife in the northeast of Brazil. I arrived a few hours prior to her and her friend Eduardo was nice enough to pick me up from the airport. We did a drive-by tour of Recife's beach and it's Old Town before Lara arrived midafternoon. Christmas night we met up ... read more

South America » Brazil

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more