CAPITAL BRASILIA - POPULATION 190 MILLION - AREA 8,511,965 SQ KM -OFFICIAL LANGUAGE PORTUGUESE
It's impossible to be bored in Brazil – as an annual tourism growth of 7.2% (according to the Brazilian government's tourist board) will attest. As well as an awful lot of coffee, numerous sustainable-tourism opportunities are springing up everywhere: venture out to Fernando de Noronha national park archipelago or the stunning Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel Mamiraua for ecotravel at its best. There are also lots of chances for fitness tourism, with visitors, impressed by the sleek bodies on the Copacabana, signing up for capoeira (martial arts-style dancing) holidays to hone their skills and tone their midriffs. Rio's Carnaval is held from 21 to 24 February in 2009, and 13 to 16 February in 2010. Whether you head to Brazil for the soccer, the caipirinhas, for Brasilia’s strange brand of retro-futurism, to drink, samba, shop or trek, the message is clear: head there soon. |
