WHY BRAZIL?

* For its wonderful beaches which are maybe the most beautiful in the world. Not only for its nature but also for the amusing life that encourages them. In Copacabana beach, Río de Janeiro, any sport type may be seen at any hour of the day or the afternoon.

* To attend the most impressive human show in the world that is the Brazil carnival. In the smallest town in the country all the activities are interrupted during a week for the carnival and and nothing must seem to be more imporant than this celebrate.

* To cross the Amazon River from Belem to Manaus on board of a lineal boat and this way to see how the Amazon runs on the sides

* To dive inside the Brazilian music. The guitar and the percussion are present and played everywhere in all the beaches and squares of the country.

* To see Brasilia, the futurist city made in airplane form a city that represents the braviest architectural companies of this century.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA

With a surface of 8.511.965 Km., Brazil is the fifth state of the world for its extension. Besides Chile and Ecuador, it is adjacent to another state of Suramérica. It has four geographical types of area. The long sandy coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the amazon basin that welcomes the biggest jungle in the planet; the central plateau so call Planalto Brasileiro; and the depression of the Paraguayan basin to the southeast. Brasilia is the fascinating capital, a tourist city in form of airplane within the amazon jungle.

Time Zone: -5.0 (summer); -3.0 (winter)

Duration of the days: maxim 13.5 (December); minimum 10 (June)

WHEN TO GO

Better Period: January, February, March, September, October

Good period: April, May, June, August.

Worst period. Julio

WEATHER

The whole Brazil has a tropical climate, therefore hot, humid and rainy during the whole year. Inside the Amazon jungle the percent of humidity never descend from 100% and Belem almost in the line of the Ecuador, its in the entire world the city where rainy s more.

Useful Information

Slight clothes of cotton, but also hot T-shirt if he/she goes in winter station overalls in the south. A jacket slight raincoat can be he very useful although against violent winds and cloudbursts it serves very little. Clothes of long magas against lso amazon inseptos.

CULTURE / MUSEUM

In lso museums of Sao Pablo, cultural capital of Brazil, sexisten European insospechables art collections that give of envying to muchso museums of the old continent. Also in River of Janeiro there is cultural ocaciones for not losing.

Museum of Art

Address: Brought to an agreement Paulista 1578, San Paolo of the Brasile

Schedule: 11-17.30; giovedì 11-20; monday closed. Closed during Carnival

Entrance is paid

Interesting collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiques. Squares, sculptures, ye Italian, French impressions, Englishwomen, Spanish, Flemishes, Dutchwomen. After the works cousins they are exposed Bernini’s canvases, Botticelli, Raffaello, Cézanne, Chagall, Gauguin, Picasso and Modigliani.

Museum of the Folklore and Aeronautical Museum

Address: Park do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo

Orari: 14-17; chiuso lunedì

Inside the splendid park of Ibirapuera, where architects of world fame have worked, he/she can find lodging, this small, but interesting museum I divide in two parts: one dedicated to the Brazilian indigenous culture and the other one to the aeronautics being pioneer of this phenomenon the Brazilian, Santos Dumont.

Modern museum of Art

Address: Brought to an agreement Dom Enrique 85, Rio de Janeiro

Entrance is paid

Schedule: 12-17.30

Entrance is paid

The museum gathers works of the XX century, with works of Albers, Brancusi, Buthe, Him Corbusier, Mathies, Picasso, Polloch and Warhol. Interesting it is the picture section and design, overalls that dedicated to the art Brazilian contemporary.

Brazilian African-American museum

Address: Praça Terreiro of Jesus, Salvador de Bahia

Schedule: 9-17; closed monday

Entrance is paid

Beautiful museum dedicated entirely to the African origins of Brazilian nation. It proposes a trip after the hierarchy of those “orichas”, the born divinities after the encounter of the Christian religion and the animist.

The Brazilian Cousine

Brazil earth of encounters and cultural crossings also since it concerns the kitchen. The products traditionally used by the first Indian cuisine to those used by the European settlers and later with the traditions African gastronomitas. The result is not more than an original and nutritious kitchen that makes great use of vegetables, of meats, overalls to the south, and of fish, overalls to north, where the plates are often particularly spicy for the abundant use of the spicy pepper. In each city it can be those “churrascarias”, restaurant that serves all type of flavorful meat, Brazilian national pride, cooked to the coal and served by waiters that maintain long roasted threaded as swords. In the north the meat dries off in the sun and he/she receives the name of “meat of sun”. The plate national Brazilian in all ways is the “feijoada”. it is unique plate to base black beans, dry and fresh meat served with “beacon” kind of a taken out flour of the manioc. It is highly a po!

pular plate proteico and private room comes for Saturdays. In the bay region it should be proven the absolutely “siri casquinha”, a lightly spicy cream, served as antipasto, has like base delicious pulp of a small called crab “siri”. But the most traditional and good plate in the kitchen bahiana is the “peixe moqueca”. kind of a soup of white fish, dry shrimps, vegetables, coconut milk and dendé oil, a typical palm of the area. It is served as accompaniment to a fish plate to the parilla. The Brazilian dinner begins and it often finishes with a glass “caipirinha”, cocktail to base gave cachaca (distilled of cane of sugar), lemon and sugar.

FUN / SHOPPING

The worked precious stones are one of the glories of the country. On the other hand is dificult to return from Brazil without having bought at least a new suit for the beach, a pareo, and any disk of bossa nova.

Jeweler’s

Brazil produces at about the 65% of the stones sold in the world. This commercial event is due to the convenient prices and the complete variety of stones coming from the Brazilian mining, there also are beautiful silver objects as jewels ingrained with the religious traditions of the country. It is better to acquire these stones in reliable jeweler’s that give you receipts of guarantee and authenticity.The acquisition of these stones can be related to visits to carving laboratories, which offer them gratuitously by menas of the great international house as that one of Stern.

Music

In the land of the zamba and that of bossa nova you cannot give up to take home some original memory. Tom Jobim and Vinicius of Moraes’ classic disks, to begin with, but also a little bit ancients songs of Caetano Veloso, the Brazilian music’s great poet, Chico Buarque’s or the youngs Marisa Montes and Vinicius Cantuaria. It is also Interesting the traditional musical instruments, mainly percussion.

Apparel

The Brazilian boisterous bikini can be get in business and bancarelas of any center spa. As well as a coloring pareos that can be used as beach canvas or as improvised dress. It must be remember that the Brazilian sizes are as a rule smaller than the Italians. Therefore it will be great to try them getting them.

Foods

An acquisition to be made may be at the last moment in the airport,can be that of any Brazilian product. Perhaps the coffee, also because it will found stronger and bitter that Italian because of the diverse form of being toasted and later the phlegm, a distilled from the sugar cane which afterwards can be used as base to the caipirinha

African safari lodges in Kenya

Africa is dotted with many wilderness parks that host a variety of interesting animals. These parks are located in far flung wild Africa areas with little in terms of infrastructure. Since the primary activity here besides conservation is tourism, these safari parks tend to play host to thousands of tourist every year. These parc safari tourists, in their quest to stay in the wild, need to be accommodated in lodges and hotels. The result is a mix of localized architecture and comfort in Africa safari lodges.

Location of such lodges in parks is important. Most of the africab safari lodges will be located in places that afford the best view on top of a hill or under a canopy of fever trees next to a stream or river. There is some important safari lodges information you need to know when planning your African Kenya safari tour.

Kenya Africa is an important Africa safari land where you will be guaranteed to see the big five animals. Africam safari tour in Kenya is one of the most rewarding if you are able to make a good combination of attractions to include the wild animals, the beach, the scenery and the bush.

Africa Kenya safari lodges

In Kenya, safari lodges are also located in some of the most favored animal parks. The most frequently visited animal parks in Kenya include the

* Masai mara game reserve-the African lion safari park
* Tsavo national park-the man eater lions safari park
* Amboseli national park-the Amboseli elephant and Mt. Kilimanjaro animal safari park
* Samburu game reserve-the Africa Kenya river safari park
* Mt. Kenya national park-the African Kenya mountain park
* Aberdares national park-the African Kenya mountain park

The best Kenya safari lodges will often feature good size rooms, a buffet restaurant menu, exotic African safari decoration with themes ranging from the masai artifacts to animal carvings and distinct bright or dull African colours. Most of the four 4 star and 5 five star African safari lodges will have a swimming pool to wash off the dirt from the safari game drives.

Masai Mara safari lodges-the African safari Mecca

Popularized by the annual wildebeest migration, the Masai Mara hosts over a million tourists in a year. The best safari lodges in the Masai Mara are located in the escarpment to the north of the reserve offering spectacular views of the savannah. These include:

* mpata safari club-best African lion safari lodge
* Serena Mara lodge- 5 star lion safari in Kenya lodge with astounding views from the raised carved pool
* African safari club-all inclusive African safari tour lodge.

Other good African Kenya animal safari lodges in the Masai Mara include:

* Keekorok safari lodge-luxury Kenya safari tour lodge
* Mara intrepids safari camp-good value africam safari tented camp
* Governor’s safari camps-best African Kenya safari camp-pricey
* Cottar’s hunting safari camp-classic hunting Kenya safari holidays base
* Base camp-mid range Kenya safari style tented camp
* Olonana safari camp-luxury award winning African ecotourism safari tented camp
* Sopa lodge Masai Mara-good Kenya animal safari camp with best view from pool.
* Sarova game safari camp-top luxury African safari camp by the river and surrounded by large thorn trees and lush green vegetation.
* Riverside camp-good value African safari tour cottages in Masai Mara-offers African wild safari trek in Kenya
* Mara simba lodge-the African wilderness safari lodge by the river with a hippo pool
* Siana tented camp- top mid range African lion country safari camp by the river.
* Simba camp- budget camp located in the best African safari wildlife park of Masai Mara
* Acacia camp- budget camp with a African wild animal safari theme in the Masai Mara

There are other very good African safari tour lodges in other wild safari parks in Kenya. I have serialized these African Kenya wilderness safari lodges in other articles on this ezine.

Enjoy your African Kenya lion country safari in the best safari accommodation!!