Brazil Travel Blog

I have finished uploading the Praia do Forte photo album, with images of the village, its beaches, its natural pools and its turtles. A charming square with a chapel right by the beach. The wonderful natural pools. Where you don’t have to get your feet wet to have fun following the little fish comings and [...]

During the subtropical winter, penguins appear along the Brazilian on a regular basis. There is hardly anything unusual about a penguin found along the coast of São Paulo, for instance. From the border with Uruguay up to the state of Rio de Janeiro, Magellanic penguins are spotted on a regular basis. The incredibly unusual fact [...]

If walking outdoors is your kind of thing, you are likely to come across a couple of quero-queros (Southern Lapwing, Vanellus chilensis), a very common bird in South America outside the Amazon basin and the Andean region. Quero-queros build their nests on the ground. If someone comes close to the nests, they defend them very [...]

I am presenting my very own personal list of 10 moments lived in Brazil filled with emotion. They do not follow any particular order. a huge turtle (up until then you had never stopped to think how large turtles can be) swimming placidly next to you, in complete silence; suddenly a shoal of fish swims [...]

There are dolphins all along the Brazilian coastline, as well as a river dolphin, pink in colour, that lives in the Amazon, the boto (Inia geoffrensis). A few places where dolphins can be seen real close: Fernando de Noronha From the viewpoint at the top of the Baia dos Golfinhos you can contemplate on a [...]