Background: 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 the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers. Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Highly unequal income distribution remains a pressing problem.
April 29th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty We orginally planned to go to Rio De Janiero, but because of a severe outbreak of the West Nile virus we had to stop at Paraty. We wern't disapointed. Paraty has over 60 islands and over 300 beache ... 1 photos[full story]
April 16th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty PHOTOS TO COME
Tuesday 15th April
I must be improving at this sleeping on transport lark... Although I kept feeling cold I 'slept' til 730, then dozed til 822 when I was woken by my phone buzzing. ... [full story]
April 8th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty Wow, Brazil's , the "Costa Verde" is amazingly beautiful.......when the sun shines! We had a great few days in Paraty, soaking up the sun, chilling on a boat, but then our luck with the weather change ... 12 photos[full story]
March 4th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty Paraty has another tourist draw. In the bay of Paraty (ed. Possibly Ilha Grande) - there are reportedly 365 islands, one for every day of the year - it's probably 366 islands on leap years. The island ... 14 photos[full story]
March 1st 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty Paraty, a small colonial port town on the southern-coast of Rio de Janeiro state illustrates one small subsection of history and culture of Brazil.
During the 18th century the hills and mountains o ... 19 photos[full story]
February 29th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty
The colonial centre of Paraty or the 'Historic Centre' as it is called is beautiful and has not changed much for hundreds of years. The buildings are small, painted white and adorned with latticed ... 8 photos[full story]
February 19th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty Paraty & Jabaquara Campground, January 25 to 30, 2008
Visiting the Pantanal was scrapped because of … wait for it … too many mosquitoes! Turns out the hidden agenda was a six day st ... 29 photos[full story]
February 11th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty Well since my lastblog i have found sun and my skin in no longer white, it is slowly going froma bright red hue to off brown colour. My nose was soo redtheother day that Santa rang me up wonderering w ... [full story]
January 25th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty So people its been a couple of weeks since I last bared my soul to you (and for those of you who saw my facebook profile my pasty rear!)
With about a week to go before Carnaval, we decided to head ... 10 photos[full story]
January 7th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Paraty This final blog is loooooonnng overdue as we have been at home for about 6 weeks now! So will try and get it finished.
After Rio we caught the bus down to Ilha Grande (the big island) off the coast ... 12 photos[full story]
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