Archive for November, 2009

Comparing Brazil Guidebooks

With Rio de Janeiro selected to host 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil’s economy heating up and getting more exposure in the media, Brazil suddenly looms on the scene as the country to visit. There is no question that Brazil has grand variety of sites to see, from sophisticated cities to UNESCO towns and nature sites unlike [...]

Brazil beaches in vicinity of Rio de Janeiro

Few countries can boast an amazing coastline of tropical beaches, with one beach better than the next. Brazil can. Brazil’s coastline is over 4500 miles long and studded with great many beaches in scores of popular tourist resort areas but that’s just scratching the surface, as there are still countless many other, secluded and pure [...]

Brazil’s currency, the real, getting stronger

While in the last three decades of the 20th century Brazil had experienced high inflation rates on continuous basis and had to change currency number of times, over the last couple years value of Brazil’s currency has gotten stronger. In circulation for last fifteen years, the real, Brazil’s currency, has been strong and steady against [...]