Advantages: Fasinating experience Disadvantages: Not for the Niave
, influenced Brazil\'s music, dance, cuisine, religion and language.
Brazilian Carnival ( is an annual celebration held 40 days before Easter and marks the beginning of Lent. Brazilian Carnival has distinct regional characteristics. Other regional festivals include the Boi Bumbá and Festa Junina (June Festivals).
Sports in Brazil which are widely practiced and popular in the country, as well as others which originated there or have some cultural significance. The Brazilian people are very involved in sports, and the most popular one is Football by a wide margin, and can be considered a cultural phenomenon.
Due to the tropical nature of the climate in Brazil, it has not traditionally competed in the Winter Olympic Games, although it has participated in the 2006 games. However, Brazil has been competing in the Summer Olympics ...
Advantages: breathtaking scenery, beautiful people, lots of fun.... Disadvantages: long, long bus journeys, quite expensive for a backpacker
We spent six weeks travelling around Brazil which was not nearly long enough, six months would have been more like it!
We travelled there from Argentina and our first stop was the world famous Iguazu Falls which were an amazing sight, as was the surrounding forest, although the Argentinian side of the falls has more wildlife and more places to explore. From here we travelled overnight to Sao Paulo by bus and arrived at 3am. We were quite apprehensive about going to Brazil from all we'd read and heard about crime, muggings and so on and being in such a huge city was quite daunting, especailly as our Portuguese was pretty appalling at that stage. However, we found people in the bus station were extremely friendly and helpful and were able to direct us to Chinatown via the subway system which was where we had chosen to stay, as it had ...
starman30 13.03.2006
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Advantages: Bizarre, dark, witty, crafted. Disadvantages: Confusing, twisted, hang on these are advantages too!
Brazil stands out from the usual crowd of self serving mass produced heartless Hollywood falderal and manages to provoke , entertain, move, amuse , astonish , delight and confuse all in the first five minutes, and then it proceeds to get better and better. You can probably tell already, I quite like this film, this is going to be a five star review and is going to contain a fair few superlatives, but the film really does deserve mine and your enthusiasm. It is a rare gem of celluloid fancy and this is why you need to watch it.
Its directed by the American ex-Monty Python member and one time animator of giant hedgehogs, Terry Gilliam, and anyone familiar with his other work (Jabberwocky, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King, Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen etc.) will recognise his perculiar flare for the visual and his dark humour, but as ...
Raybid 10.07.2001
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