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Inside the Favela Rocinha
If you read the safety instructions of the Foreign Office, one find filling pages warnings about Brazil that one should strongly consider. It’s particularly pointed out that there are frequently armed conflicts and robberies in the north of the country … Continue reading
First Laboratory Evidence Explaining Zika Induced Microcephaly.
The first set of experiments which demonstrate how the Zika Virus manages to create microcephaly in infants have been published. Previously the link between the two was purely speculative and circumstantial, now it is beginning to be proven. The Zika … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Education, Health, Life, microcephaly, nature, news, photography, travel, usa, Zika virus
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Jací and Guarací – The Amazon’s river Legend
The Amazon river or “Rio Amazonas” is located in South America. It is the largest river in the world and second in length, with approximately 6,400 km (4.000 miles). The Amazon river crosses 7 countries of South America, Guyana, Ecuador, … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon river, Brazil, colombia, folk tales, Latin America, legends, Peru
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Samba in Fort-de-France by patricksorrente
Samba in Fort-de-France From 500px http://ift.tt/1PJF7UF https://bestpicpicpic.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/samba-in-fort-de-france-by-patricksorrente/
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Tagged Brazil, Carnaval, Carnival, Costume, Festival, patricksorrente, samba, street
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‘Minimal risk’ of Zika virus during Olympics, Rio Games medical director says
The Olympic Park’s mosquitoes are not primarily the Aedes aegypt type that transmit Zika, an official said. http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/02/02/zika-virus-rio-olympics-brazil/
You must be nuts!
I bet you don’t know what these are … … or maybe you do if you’re from Brazil or Thailand, but I had never heard of cashew fruit or juice before coming to Brazil. Yes, of course I knew what cashew … Continue reading
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Tagged Brasil, Brazil, cashew, exotic fruit, food, mercado municipal, nuts, Sao Paulo, South America
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Bolivia seeks to sign deal with Brazil on Trans-Oceanic Railway
Bolivian President Evo Morales will seek to finalize an agreement with his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff on plans for a railway linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, it was announced on Wednesday. Bolivia’s Minister of Public Works, Milton Claros, told … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Ocean, Bolivia, Brazil, Pacific Ocean, Trans-oceanic railway
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#Travel: A cultural trip to Brazil’s city of the beautiful horizon
“Belo Horizonte became home to charming small art galleries and a flourishing startup scene, also known as San Pedro Valley, which shook things up in the business realm of my old city. So if you have been gentrified out of … Continue reading
Casas coloridas by AFerreira
Thanks a lot for your visit From 500px http://ift.tt/1NzB33p https://bestpicpicpic.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/casas-coloridas-by-aferreira/
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