Brazil Travel Tips: Tailor-Made Travel

published on May 06, 2005

Brazil Travel Tips: Tailor-Made Travel

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That’s me, the founder and editor of BrazilMax. A former correspondent for The Financial Times and Business Week, and a contributor to magazines like ARTnews and Science, I have traveled to all corners of Brazil. I’ve ridden through the streets of Salvador atop a “trio elétrico” (the sound trucks that Carnival bands use to roll through the streets), and I’ve danced in the winning Samba School of Rio’s Carnival parade. I’ve slugged through the Amazonian mud and crouched in canoes with native fishermen after the pirarucu, the world’s largest freshwater fish. I’ve chased down the last remaining speakers of dying Amazon languages. I’ve toured the mega-dam Itaipú with company officials and flown over nearby Iguaçu Falls in a military plane. I’ve ridden on horseback through the plains of Rio Grande do Sul. I’ve witnessed the São João mid-winter extravaganza in Caruaru and the post-Christmas Wise Men Festival in Minas Gerais. I’ve surfed the primo waves of Santa Catarina. I’ve hung out in the shantytowns of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. I’ve flown over São Paulo in a helicopter courtesy of a bank executive. I’ve interviewed everyone from the late author Jorge Amado to President Lula. Not only that, but I practice the Brazilian martial art capoeira twice a week.

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