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Brazil Travel Guide

Why Brazil?

• For its wonderful beaches, which are perhaps the most beautiful world. Not only because of its nature but also for life that encourages fun. On the beach in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, sport of any kind can be seen at any time of day or evening.
• To attend the exhibition's most impressive human world is the carnival in Brazil. In the smallest town in the country all activities are interrupted for a week for the carnival and nothing and should appear more important for this celebration.
• To cross the Amazon River from Belem to Manaus on board of a lineal boat and this way of seeing the Amazon runs on either side
• To dive inside the Brazilian music. The guitar and percussion are present everywhere and played on all the beaches and squares of the country.
• To view Brasilia, the futuristic city in the form of plane made a city that represents braviest studies the architects of this century.

GEOGRAPHIC DATA
With an area of 8,511,965 km., Brasil is the fifth state of the world by its extension. Besides Chile and Ecuador, which is adjacent to another state in South America. It has four geographical types of area. The sandy coast of the Atlantic Ocean Amazon Basin hosts the world's largest forest, the central plateau so call Planalto Brasileiro, and depression of the basin of Paraguay to the southeast. Brasilia is the fascinating capital, a tourist city in the form of plane in the Amazon rainforest.

Time Zone: -5.0 (summer), -3.0 (winter)
Duration of: maximum 13.5 (December) and a minimum 10 (June)

WHEN TO GO
Best Period: January, February, March, September October
Good times: April, May, June, August.
The worst period. July

WEATHER
The whole Brazil has a tropical climate, therefore hot, humid and rainy throughout the year. In the Amazon jungle humidity never fall below 100% and Belem almost in line with Ecuador, worldwide the city where rain s more.

Useful Information
Light cotton clothes, but also a hot shirt if he / she is going with a single winter season in the south. A light waterproof jacket that can be very useful despite high winds and downpours that serves very little. Costumes of long magas against lso amazon inseptos.

CULTURE / MUSEUM
Lso museums in Sao Paulo, Brazil's cultural capital, sexist European collections art Both are above suspicion, envy of museums in the continent. Also in Rio de Janeiro there are times to keep cultural.

Art Museum
Address: Brought to an agreement Paulista 1578, the San Paolo Brasile
Schedule: 11-17.30; giovedì 11-20, Mondays closed. Closed during Carnival
Entrance paid
Interesting collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities. Squares, sculptures, prints ye Italian, French, English, Spanish, Flemish, Dutchwomen. After the works cousins they are exposed paintings by Bernini, Botticelli, Raphael, Cezanne, Chagall, Gauguin, Picasso and Modigliani.

Folklore Museum and the Museum of Aviation
Address: Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo
Orario: 14-17; lunedì chiuso
Inside the splendid park Ibirapuera, where architects of world fame have worked, he / she can find lodging, this small but interesting museum is divided into two parts: one dedicated to indigenous Brazilian culture and the other one of the aeronautics being pioneer of this phenomenon the Brazilian, Santos Dumont.

Museum of Modern Art
Address: Brought to an agreement Dom Enrique 85, Rio de Janeiro
Entrance is paid
Schedule: 12-17.30
Entrance is paid
The museum includes works twentieth century, with works of Albers, Brancusi, Buthe, Le Corbusier, Mathies, Picasso, Warhol and Polloch. Interesting is the section of image and design, a monkey who were engaged Brazilian contemporary art.

Brazilian Afro-American Museum
Address: Plaza Terreiro de Jesus, Salvador de Bahia
Hours: 9-17; closed Mondays
Entrance is paid
Beautiful museum dedicated entirely to the African origins of Brazilian nation. Proposes a trip after the hierarchy the "orishas", the born divinities after the encounter of the Christian and animist religion.

Brazilian cuisine
Brazil earth of encounters and cultural crossings also since it refers to the kitchen. The products traditionally used by the first Indian cuisine to those used by European settlers and later with gastronomitas African traditions. The result is nothing more than an original and nutritious kitchen that makes great use of vegetables, meats, overalls to south, and fish, monkeys to north, where the plates are often particularly spicy for the abundant use of hot pepper. In each city can be "steakhouses" restaurant that serves all kinds of tasty meat, Brazilian national pride, cooked on the grill and served by waiters that maintain long roasting thread like swords. In the northern beef dried in the sun and is called the "meat of sun." The national dish of Brazil in all aspects is the feijoada. "Base is unique dish of black beans, dry and fresh meat served with "beacon" a kind of flour extracted from cassava. Protein is highly popular dish and private room comes on Saturdays. In the region Bay is to demonstrate the absolutely "siri casquinha, a lightly spicy cream, served as antipasto, is based on the delicious pulp of a crab named small "Siri." But the most traditional dish in good standing at Bahian cuisine is the "peixe moqueca." a soup of white fish, dried shrimp, vegetables, coconut milk and dende oil, a palm tree in the area. Serve as accompaniment to a grilled fish plate. The Brazilian dinner begins and ends often with a glass "caipirinha, a cachaça-based cocktail made (distilled from cane sugar), lemon and sugar.

FUN / PURCHASES

The gemstones are worked one of the glories of the country. On the other hand it is difficult to return from Brazil without having bought at least one new game for the beach a pareo, and any disk of bossa nova.

Jewelry
Brazil produces about 65% of the stones sold in the world. This trade event is due to the convenient prices and the complete variety of stones from Brazilian mining company, also are beautiful silver objects and jewels ingrained with the religious traditions the country. It is better to acquire these stones in reliable jeweler's that give you security and purchase receipts authenticity.The of these stones may be related to visits to carving laboratories, which offered free by the big house ores International as one of Stern.

Music
In the land of samba and that of bossa nova can not fail to take home an original souvenir. Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes classic albums to begin with, but also some songs by Caetano little old Veloso, the great poet of Brazilian music, Chico Buarque or Young Marisa Montes and Vinicius Cantuaria. Also of interest in traditional musical instruments, especially percussion.

Dress
The Brazilian boisterous bikini can get in business and bancarelas any spa. Also a coloring pareos that can be used as beach canvas or as improvised dress. Remember that the smaller sizes are the Brazilians a rule that Italian. Therefore, it will be great to try to get it.

Food
An acquisition that can be made at the last minute at the airport may be that of any Brazilian product. Perhaps the coffee, also because it is stronger and bitter that Italian because of the different ways of being roasted and then phlegm, a distilled from sugar cane which can then be used as the basis for the caipirinha.

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