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| Brazil Travel Guide for backpackers |
| If you are the Richard Attenborough type and fancy yourself tramping through the immense tropical rainforest checking out the weird and exotic creatures living in their own Eden, then Brazil awaits your pleasure, and if you are more the hedonist type looking for frolics, festivals and getting snot-flying slammed at the carnival, then Brazil awaits your pleasure too. |
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Rio de Janeiro – Absolutely everything is great in Rio, the cidade maravilhosa (marvelous city), from its swinging people and their firm grip on the good life, nightlife and sports life, to the beaches, exotic parks and gardens, and grand old architecture.
Foz do Iguacu (Iguacu Falls) – The Iguacu Falls will certainly do it for the R. Attenborough types, and even those bent on boozing their way around Brazil will find the majestic beauty of the falls totally overwhelming and stand gob-smacked before them.
Salvador da Bahia – Ha! Here’s another city for both the intellectual and the inebriate. It has colonial churches, beautiful old mansions and winding cobblestone streets in its old centre. It also has wild festivals and even a lifestyle of decadence and wild abandonment.
Sao Paulo – This dynamic city of around 17 million people offers cultural diversity and is considered home of the most educated and refined folk in Brazil.
The Amazon – This really amazing tract of land is so vast and so dense that even today not all is known about it. The Amazon is filled with both rare and beautiful creatures like sinuous, dappled jaguars, river dolphins, tiny hummingbirds, and giant Anaconda’s gliding through the dark waters of the forest rivers.
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 DAILY BUDGET in BRAZIL - For roughly US$40 a day you can spend US$10 a night for accommodation, eat out and glug down a few Cachaca’s nightly. However if you budget is as tight as a frogs you know what, then chow down on beans, soak up the sun, and nothing else, and camp under the stars for about US$20 to US$25 daily. Always remember from December to February prices soar. |
| In summer from December to February the southern part of Brazil becomes hot and humid, and in winter from June to August is drenched, soaked, and sodden with constant rain. The rest of the country is fine though, with summer bringing out the locals and festivities, school holidays beginning in mid-December, and Carnaval in February, with Rio’s most spectacular event on the calendar. |
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