Adventures

Brazil offers big adventures for travelers with

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budgets large and small. Theres horseback riding in the Pantanal, kayaking flooded forests in the Amazon, ascending rocky cliff tops to breathtaking views, whale-watching off the coast, surfing stellar breaks off palm-fringed beaches and snorkelling crystal-clear rivers or coastal reefs all part of the great Brazilian experience. No less entrancing is the prospect of doing nothing, aside from sinking into warm sands and soaking up a glorious stretch of beach, caipirinha Brazils national cocktail in hand.

Adventures
Brazils most famous celebration, Carnaval, storms though the countrys cities and towns with hip-shaking samba and frevo, dazzling costumes and carefree joie de vivre, but Brazilians hardly regulate their passion for revelry to a few weeks of the year.

lust for life tends to appear whether dancing with Cariocas at Rios atmospheric samba clubs or following powerful drumbeats through the streets of Salvador. Theres the dancehall forr of the Northeast, twirling carimb of the Amazon, scratch-skilled DJs of So Paulo and an endless variety of regional sounds that extends from the back-country sertanejo to reggae-loving Maranho. With so much going for them, its no wonder that Brazilians say Deus e Brasileiro (God is Brazilian). How else to explain the treasure chest of natural and cultural riches sprinkled all across the country?

Wherever theres music, that carefree