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Visit Fortaleza with TV Reporter Stephanie Eilert

Fortaleza native and television reporter Stephanie Eilert offers visitors some tips about her hometown, the coastal capital of Ceará state.
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Recife: Revenge of the Sharks

Environmental degradation has transformed a once fashionable beach in Northeastern Brazil into a magnet for sharks
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Recife: Rivers Run Through It

Recife stands where the Capibaribe meets the Beberibe River just in time for the two to flow hand-in-hand into the sea. The historic center is literally an island unto itself - one of three that comprise the downtown area. Some 39 bridges crisscross a city that has been referred to as a tropical Venice. When I discovered that Recite offered its version of the riverboat rides I’d taken along the Seine in Paris and the Thames in London, I jumped at the chance to take the night tour, thus transforming Recite into my own City of Lights for an evening.
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Recife’s Erotic Pagan Temple

Tourists swarm Rio de Janeiro’s iconic hilltop Christ statue and Manaus’ magnificent opera house. By contrast Recife’s big “can’t miss” attraction is often, well, missed by visitors to the state capital of Pernambuco. For those who catch a cab for the 15 kilometer ride to the Várzea district on the outskirts of town, the Oficina Brennand provides a new meaning for the term living museum. Like sex and death, Francisco Brennand’s sometimes monstrous ceramic sculptures, always pregnant with life, both attract and repel – but never fail to fascinate.
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The Manatee Project in Itamaracá, Pernambuco

The IBAMA Aquatic Mammal Center on the island of Itamaracá, Pernambuco, offers visitors the chance to see the endangered animal described by a 16th century Portuguese explorer as “larger than an ox, covered by a hard skin similar in color to that of an elephant."
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Prainha do Canto Verde: Community Tourism in a Fishing Village

In Prainha do Canto Verde, locals have managed to throw a novel twist into the plot that usually unfolds as communities are “discovered” as tourism destinations. Unlike many neighboring fishing villages along the coast of the Brazilian northeast, it has not been overrun by carpetbaggers, sprawl, pollution, drugs and crime. In Prainha do Canto Verde community tourism generates extra income for the locals and acts as a weapon in the battle against real estate speculation and the social and environmental problems that inevitably accompany mass tourism.
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