The Instituto Butantan in São Paulo is a biomedical research center with a worldwide reputation for its work on the development of snake antivenom. A small colection of live snakes can be seen at its Biological Museum.
[from our special guest Daniel] Belém do Pará is the capital of the state of Pará, in the north of Brazil, near the mouth of the mighty Amazon. It is known as the “metropolis of the Amazon” and it has accumulated a rich history since its foundation 400 years ago. During the rubber fever it [...]
Walking along the Avenida Paulista on Friday, under a persistent and annoying rain, I ran across the scene I captured with my pocket camera (the quality is not very good). I immediately thought of so many people about to start their holidays in Brazil, worried to death about the weather they are going to find [...]
This is a summary of the entries posted along the last couple of months on the Região dos Lagos, an area that includes the tourist destinations of Arraial do Cabo, Búzios and Cabo Frío, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. I published two destination cards, Destination: Arraial do Cabo and Destination: Búzios. Along with [...]
I don’t usually like to open an entry with a photograph, but in this case the placement of the image is deliberate and has the only aim of provoking an instant reaction from the reader. What you see above is tourism on a coral reef Brazilian-sytle. 2008 is the Internation Year of the Reef and [...]
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