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Sports and Recreation in Rio de Janeiro City
The legendary Flamengo-Fluminense (“Fla-Flu”) rivalry makes for intense games. Photo © keetr, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Sports and Recreation in Rio
Blessed with so many natural attractions, it is unsurprising that Cariocas are a pretty sporty bunch. Beach activities—everything from
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Tips for Traveling the Rodovia Transpantaneira
A regional welcome sign placed along the Transpantaneira. Photo © Tambako the Jaguar, licensed Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivatives.
The easiest way to enter the Pantanal from Cuiabá is via the town of Poconé, 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the south. The Pantanal itself begins as you continu
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Exploring Brazil's Chapada Diamantina Region
Traveling due west from Salvador, after a few hours the dry and dusty landscape of the northeastern Sertão region begins to change. Mountains and strange rock formations appear, and the vegetation turns surprisingly lush, with an abundance of orchids and bromeliads. The transformation signals the
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Moving to Brazil
Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. Photo © Celso Diniz.
During the many years I’ve lived in Brazil, I’ve made numerous trips to North America. Whenever the topic of my residence comes up, people are always invariably mystified, curious, freaked out, and/or envious of the fact that I live in Bra
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Planning a Move to Brazil: Fact-Finding
Fortaleza, Brazil. Photo © Leonardo Pallotta, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
If you’re thinking of moving to Brazil, it’s wise to spend some time getting a sense of the country and the culture, not to mention housing and job possibilities, before you go ahead and take the plunge. A fact-fi
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Brazil's Best Beaches
Maresias in São Paulo. Photo © Eugeni Dodonov, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Brazil boasts close to 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) of beautiful Atlantic beaches. Whatever your mood or budget, there is a beach to suit everyone.
Best Urban Beaches
Known as a “crab culture” because 70 percen
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The Basics of Work Visas in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro’s financial district. Photo © Rodrigo Soldon, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
If you’re going to be doing any kind of work at all in Brazil—either paid or volunteer, with or without a contract—or you are participating in any type of training, internship, or residency pr
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Brazilian Portuguese
Sign in Rio’s Metro. Photo © Rodrigo Galindez licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Those who come to Brazil with a knowledge of Portuguese from Portugal will have a much easier time in terms of communication but will also run into trouble. The differences between Portuguese from Brazil vs.
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Important Housing Considerations in Brazil
São Paulo cityscape © Veebruar, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Regardless of whether you plan to rent or buy a home, the issue of housing is a complex one for those planning a move to Brazil. This is because many factors that wouldn’t necessarily come into play in North America, or would b
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Driving in Brazil: Pros and Cons
Traffic in São Paulo. Photo © Kate Webster, licensed Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivatives.
Driving in Brazil is not for the faint of heart. Brazilians have a love affair with speeding and are hardly sticklers for following the rules of the road. As the economy has improved in recent years,
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Foreigners in Brazil
São Paulo International Airport. Photo © Jorge L. C. Andrade, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Even though Brazil doesn’t receive as many immigrants as the United States and Canada, Brazilians themselves are incredibly welcoming to foreigners—much more so, in a sense, than their North Americ
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Life in Brazil
View towards Rio. Photo © Gilberto Santa Rosa, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
The notion of moving to Brazil has often been wrapped up in a certain degree of fantasy. The South American giant was somewhere you went if you wanted to get lost in the world’s largest rainforest, make a fortune
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LGBT Life in Brazil
2011 Pride Parade in São Paulo. Photo © Beraldo Leal, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
A lot of gay and lesbian foreigners associate Brazil with images of transvestites, Carnaval drag queens, and the muscle boys of Ipanema and allow themselves to think that Brazil is a very gay-friendly plac
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A Brief History of Brazilian Cinema
Cinema de Fronteira’s Pachamama International Film Festival. Photo by Talita Oliveira, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Cinema has always been very popular in Brazil. By the 1930s, even the smallest towns in the northeastern interior had their own modest movie palaces screening Hollywo
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Moving Your Possessions to Brazil
Moving boxes © Nathan Oliver Photography, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Shipping possessions to Brazil from North America is very expensive (with the exception of books, which can be sent quite cheaply by mail; expect them to take several months to arrive), but it might be worth i
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Deciding Where to Live When Moving to Brazil
Beach view in Rio de Janerio. Photo © Gilberto Santa Rosa, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Deciding where to live in Brazil is as complex as deciding whether you want to move to Brazil in the first place. Of course, if you’re moving because you’ve already landed a job, enrolled in a specifi
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Starting a Business in Brazil
View of Salvador from the bay. Photo © Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
An alternative to finding a formal, full-time job in Brazil is to go the self-employed route, either by working as a freelancer (with clients in Brazil—or North America—or both) or by starting you
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From Manaus into the Amazon Rain Forest
On the river near Manaus. Photo © Jorge Luis Cardosode Andrade, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Most people’s ultimate destination is not Manaus itself but the Amazon rain forest. From Manaus, you can get a taste of the rain forest with day trips, but if you want to get away from civilizati
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Cruise the Amazon on a Riverboat Trip
Travel like the locals via riverboat like these lined up early morning at the Port of Manaus. Photo © Wagner Fontoura, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
An alternative to staying put in a jungle lodge is to choose a riverboat as your headquarters, which will allow you to cover far more territ
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Réveillon in Imbassaí
Year’s End on the beautiful beaches of Imbassaí. Photo © Michael Sommers.
A few years ago, close friends in my adopted hometown of Salvador, Bahia, rented a house for the summer in Imbassaí, a former fishing village located on the coconut palm-fringed northern coast of Bahia. Summer in Brazi
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