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Brazil travel guide: tips and ideas
This wonderfully vast country with breathtaking natural landscapes is home to an equally diverse population. From North to South, Brazil’s people, cuisine, and customs are starkly different (and equally worth discovering). Pockets of native people live nearly untouched by modernity within the wild Amazon. Bustling metropolises like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro provide a jarring contrast to simple life up North. Slow living on the picturesque “Nordeste” (Brazil’s northeast coastal region) holds a candle to the European lifestyle in the South.
Brazil is a mixed bag of experiences, awe-inspiring biodiversity, and wonderfully individual ways of life ready to be unpacked by its visitors. Wherever you choose as your starting point of travel, interminable adventures and astonishing sceneries await you here.