Hola Brazil, Bye Bye Wallet

Advantages: Fasinating experience
Disadvantages: Not for the Niave

...to the downtown area has been increased since 2006. Bus travel between major cities and travel within other cities is relatively safe. On arrival in Brazil I would advice only using registered airport taxis. You can pick up taxis from the many recognised taxi ranks around Brazilian cities. If using a roving taxi, check first that the driver is displaying his photographic licence. Try to...

gt5952 24.11.2007 16:43 · Read review
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Backpacking in Brazil

Advantages: breathtaking scenery, beautiful people, lots of fun....
Disadvantages: long, long bus journeys, quite expensive for a backpacker

...We spent six weeks travelling around Brazil which was not nearly long enough, six months would have been more like it! We travelled there from Argentina and our first stop was the world famous Iguazu Falls which were an amazing sight, as was the surrounding forest, although the Argentinian side of the falls has more wildlife and more places to explore. From here we travelled overnight to Sao...

starman30 13.03.2006 18:13 · Read review
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Brasil - a conflicting recommendation

Advantages: Breathtaking nature, cheap, multi-cultural
Disadvantages: high criminality, bad health institutions (hospital etc.),

...-city, the spectaculous waterfalls of iguacu, the cities Salvador de Bahia and Manaus, about these attractions you find informations in every travel guide, and this is good so, they are worth the visit. And yes, the people in Brasil are really amazingly friendly, the country itself,a quasi-continente, shows so many different sides from the black-african north to the european south like only few others. As...

AlexanderS2 31.03.2005 22:06 · Read review
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