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.
February 25th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa Rio de Janeiro, I believe it is impossible not to romanticized this city, and anyone who disagrees with me only has to come and listen to the samba music streaming out of the local street-side bars, s ... 26 photos[full story]
January 27th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa The big day had arrived, we had picked up our costumes on Saturday, from the tour guides. We spent the day walking around the streets and Copacabana beach, another duck photo, lunch in a Japanese bar ... 9 photos[full story]
January 28th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa Watching the Carnival Parade
After an exciting evening of taking part in the Carnival, and going down the Sambadrome with the Samba School, GRES Portela tonight we get to watch the second day of th ... 9 photos[full story]
February 3rd 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa
In readiness for our trip to the Pantanal, we were encouraged to pack day bags full of deet, suncream and clothes to keep off the mozzies although none of us were prepared for the onslaught of mozzi ... [full story]
February 4th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa Day 4 of the Carnaval and the idea is as follows, we get afro wigs, Brazilian flags and make some kind of silly outfits out of them! Cool idea huh...after all everybody in this town is in party mood! ... 16 photos[full story]
February 3rd 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa So last time I wrote, you may recall that Chris and I totally lost Brad, Ben and the others...but we managed to turn the situation around and have a great night and following morning, getting to bed a ... 18 photos[full story]
February 5th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa This is my first blog entry about Brasil. In short we have been in Brasil for about a month, we started in Sao Paulo staying with a family, went into the interior for a bit to do some trekking on camp ... 22 photos[full story]
February 5th 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa Its Carnival time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (or Carnaval as they say here) And here I am in Rio de Janeiro. You have never experienced a party until you have experienced this I am telling you.
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February 3rd 2008South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Lapa
Wow, so I'm finally here. And what an adventure. The flight over was relatively ok. I managed to get a emergency exit seat but that was about the only good part of my trip. Firstly, even though it ... 3 photos[full story]
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