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The article provides travel information for Brazil, focusing on locations to watch soccer matches such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Santos.

The author shares his experience of traveling to the Amazon, touching a bulbous nest of tapiba ants, linked to an imbaubeira tree that is on a trail off the Rio Negro in northern Brazil.

The article offers travel information on tourist attractions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil including the Center for Brazilian Handicrafts museum in Tiradentes Square, food establishments including Da Roberta that serve Brazilian sandwiches, and a visit to Brazil's hillside town known as favela.

The article offers travel tips for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the Olympic Games in 2016 and includes recommendations for accommodations, dining, and places where the athletes can be found.

This article discusses the internet search provider Google's networking service "Orkut" which is largely popular in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Safernet Brazil is an organization created by president Thiago Nunes de Oliveira to track human rights violations on "Orkut" which have already been disrupted by sexual predators and various hate groups. Google spokeswoman Debbie Frost announced that Google will soon be releasing a tool designed to better enforce the rules of the "Orkut" service.

Features travel destinations and attractions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Restaurants and bars; Nightlife; Street gatherings; Beaches; Accommodations.

The article reports on the support of Brazilian fans to the country's soccer team following its defeat against Netherlands in the third place game at 2014 World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil.

The article presents the author's view concerning on the 15-foot storefront sign family photo of Kugel in the Brazilian Amazon.

The article reports on the response of Brazilian doctors and citizens regarding the plan of President Dilma Rousseff to recruit foreign doctors than to improve the country's health care facilities and health care system.

The wealthiest guests travel to Liceia Franklin de Oliveira's farmhouse restaurant by helicopter, landing amid the green hills outside Arapei, Brazil, about 20 miles as the chopper flies from the resort town of Angra dos Reis. But you don't need to be rich to afford the 70-real prix fixe lunch: that's only $35 at 1.98 reais to the dollar. Plebeians will, however, need some time. By car it's a two-hour, 110-mile drive from Rio de Janeiro, the last three miles of which are down a dirt road barely wide enough for a compact rental. (Ask for directions if you don't see signs in town for the restaurant.) You'll also need time to eat: a meal with Dona Liceia (as the 76-year-old owner and chef is known) is an afternoon-long feast. First come irregular slabs of home-smoked bacon, tangy cheese made in-house and sun-dried tomatoes. Then pots of homemade pates from duck to eggplant and duck to passion fruit. Then a choice of main courses -- one made easier by the fact that they are served family style. There's rabbit in wine sauce, and guinea hen in a sauce of its own blood, and feijao tropeiro, the hearty Brazilian country dish that mixes pork, beans and manioc into a hearty mash. Finally the dessert onslaught: 40-plus choices, all you can eat, and set out buffet-style, from papaya compote to a gooey chocolate and coconut Prestigio cake, named for the Brazilian version of a Mounds bar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DESPITE the modernistic monuments by the legendary Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's retro-futuristic capital city -- erected on an expanse of dry plains in central Brazil in the late 1950s and '60s -- has generally drawn few visitors who didn't have business with the federal government. But as Brazil's economy booms and its world influence increases, Brasilia is coming of age, gaining a new museum here, a cool bridge there, top-shelf restaurants everywhere. Brasilia is also safer and calmer than Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo, unless you count the stress of trying to understand its maddening address system. Adding to the charm are awe-inspiring sunsets, samba hot spots and something even the greatest urban planners in the world couldn't have given it upon its inauguration in 1960: a half-century of tradition and history. Friday [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Transpantaneira Highway, despite its grand name, is an unfinished dirt road running 90 or so miles from the Brazilian town of Pocone into the Pantanal, a vast wetlands many consider South America's finest destination for animal viewing. But it's not just a road: it's a crocodilian slalom course. As I jolted along in a rented Fiat Uno on a late August night, my headlights caught the glare of dozens of red eyes staring in the near pitch-black far ahead. They belonged to Yacare caimans, alligator cousins that had decided the road was a comfortable resting spot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Filling your time during a cheap weekend in Rio de Janeiro would seem like a no-brainer: head to Ipanema beach on Saturday, spend a couple of bucks to rent a beach chair and a couple more on tempting snacks from roaming vendors. Rinse (in the on-beach showers) and repeat (on Sunday). But if you want to eat actual meals, drink the local grog (ice-cold beer), listen to music and get around town, too, you're asking for trouble. The Brazilian real is at its strongest this century - the weekend I was there $1 got you 1.57 reais - and by one consulting group's measure life for expatriates in Rio is more expensive than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, except Sao Paulo and New York. Tourists will feel that pain as well, especially when it comes to restaurant meals, taxis and entrance costs to attractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A CITY of high-rises and traffic jams in a country of rain forests and beaches, Sao Paulo, South America's biggest metropolis, is a Brazilian freak of nature, except without the nature. But the city's flaws -- high prices, street crime, incessant drizzle -- are no match for its strengths -- artistic and business energy, relentless night life. Sometimes, it even manages to turn its flaws into assets, as when celebrated architects take ugly concrete and create post-Brutalist masterpieces, like Isay Weinfeld's sleek bookstore Livraria da Vila on Alameda Lorena. Sao Paulo's 11 million-plus inhabitants do their part by infusing the din with contagious Brazilian energy; those flashing smiles and thumbs-up signs are among the few things the city shares with the rest of the vast country whose booming economy it anchors. Friday [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Belem sits at the mouth of the Amazon River both literally (on the delta where millions of gallons pour into the Atlantic every second) and figuratively -- it is the prime destination for travelers seeking out the region's bafflingly unfamiliar cuisine. And it doesn't get more bafflingly unfamiliar than the endless variety of unpronounceable fruits, many of which are exotic even to lots of Brazilians, because they are too fragile to travel to the country's largest cities. But trying them all in their raw form would be a mighty and messy task -- which is where Sorveteria Cairu comes in. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's one of those only-in-the-Amazon tourist dilemmas: you want to bring home a 12-foot blowgun, but don't know how to tell the genuine article from tourist schlock. And how do you know if a fair share of your money will get to the indigenous group that made it? Or if the tortoise shells used for adornment were responsibly obtained? GaleriAmazonica, which opened in 2008 in Manaus, tries to relieve travelers and collectors of such worries. The organizations that teamed up to run the store -- a respected Brazilian nonprofit organization called the Instituto Socioambiental and a community association of the Waimiri-Atroari indigenous group -- promise the real thing, responsibly produced by properly remunerated artisans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE map showed two obvious ways to get from Catas Altas, a sleepy village in the foothills of southeast Brazil, to our hotel at Serra do Cipo National Park, a highland steppe with vertiginous canyons and cave paintings. There was the wimpy way, a roundabout route that would take us over smooth asphalt and trusty highways. And then there was the manly path: a direct shot along rutted dirt roads that wound through lazy towns like Taquaracu de Minas and Jaboticatubas. I couldn't blame my travel companions, Adam and Neil, writer friends from New York City, for leaning towards taking the easier route. Our rental car, a silver Chevy Prisma with a low-hanging chassis, wasn't exactly fit for dusty rural shortcuts. But we were in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where bumping along dirt roads is part of the thrill. So straight ahead we went. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HERE'S a novel idea: When in Sao Paulo, eat Brazilian food. Well, perhaps not so novel for gastronomes who travel to Milan for osso buco, the French Riviera for bouillabaisse or the Yucatan for cochinita pibil. But for the Brazilian business capital's restaurant-crazy natives -- who can't stop raving about the Italian bistro Due Cuochi Cucina and are quite sure Aizome serves the best sashimi outside of Japan -- that may be an odd concept. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Now spreading across Brazil: a chain of tiny sushi shops that glow like radioactive salmon and became a sensation in Rio de Janeiro soon after the first outpost opened in the chic Leblon neighborhood in late 2006. The city's university students and 20-somethings flock there after-hours for temaki sushi, what we would call hand rolls and what they have taken to calling ''cones,'' and have elevated it to a post-clubbing snack on a par with pizza. By early 2008, there were a dozen Koni Stores, all extraordinarily orange and most open late on weekend nights. Limited seating makes them good places to hang out and be seen, but not for too long. One of the 20-something founders, Michel Jager, noted that the bright color scheme was chosen not just for its salmon hue but to induce quick customer turnover. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BRAZIL is an impressive place for many reasons -- its cars run on ethanol, its strong currency has its traveling citizenry on a Midtown shopping spree, its chefs know their way around a steak, and there's apparently even some sort of rain forest down there. So be it. But New York still channels Brazil primarily through its music. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IN much of Sao Paulo, window-shopping is simply not practical: the concrete city is too vast for sidewalk strolling. Instead, residents who can afford higher-end merchandise drive to centers of consumption known in Brazil as ''shoppings''; in the United States, they are called malls. But there is a new exception: Vila Madalena, a hilly neighborhood in the western zone. Long known as a student hangout for its cheap beers and late-night samba dancing, Vila Madalena has seen an influx of quirky boutiques, which is turning this night-life hub into a pedestrian-friendly shopping arcade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABOUT 90 miles outside Rio de Janeiro, after the bikinis of Ipanema give way to shantytowns, industrial suburbs and finally green hills, a dozen empty 9,000-liter oak casks lie in a new cellar outside a 18th-century Portuguese colonial farmhouse surrounded by 1,500 acres of forest, pasture and sugar cane. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information regarding the major tourist attractions of Belo Horizonte situated in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It states that it's the third largest city of the country, known by the nickname Beagá and is famous for its bars like Bar do Caixote. It also refers to the ways to reach there and hotels to stay in.

The article offers information regarding tourist attractions of São Paulo, Brazil. It explains the ways to reach- and stay- there. It refers to its famous museums, special events and hotels. One such museum is said to be Pinacoteca do Estado, are stored place that shows Brazilian art. Some of the recommended cafes include Santo Grão.

The article reports that New Year celebrations went on well in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil despite of prevailing violent conditions there. Audiences present at Copacabana Beach were nearly 1.5 million but were estimated to be 1 million. On December 28, 2006, about 20 people were killed in attacks by some drug traffickers.

The article focuses on the city of Manaus, Brazil.

Presents a photograph of the tourists spending New Year's Eve at the Copacabana beach resort in Brazil.

The article reports on the softening views of the antigovernment protesters on the government's lavish spending for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.