vc da ou nao da ?

Flying to Brazil in 5 days.
Iguazu; Argentinian side or Brazillian side?
Bonito; Worth the money?
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo; any recommendations in which hostels to stay in?

Any random tips?

UEHUEHUEHUEHUE?

>>531969
>Iguaçu
I don't know anything about the Argentinian side, but my brother went to the Brazilian side and the pics were really amazing.

>Bonito
Only if you're into ecotourism.

>Rio de Janeiro
I had a girl who worked on this one: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:pt-BR:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=
hostel+rio+de+janeiro+botafogo&fb=1&hq=hostel&hnear=0x997fe5efee9a25:0x3c77ca60168b5ea&#
44;Botafogo,+Rio+de+Janeiro,+Brazil&ei=0JDfTs-xCofiggeKmeCPBg&sa=X&oi=local_grou
p&ct=image&ved=0CCcQtgM
It was alright.

>São Paulo
Can't really help you there. I know many people who have been voyaging by couchsurfing though... I myself arrived from São Paulo just this morning, but I was hosted by a friend.

>Random tips
While in Rio, DO NOT visit the Christ. It's a crap trip, you expend a lot of money to wait 5 hours in a queue. The Sugar Loaf is alright though. However, there are many more interesting stuff to do. If you are into architecture, go to Confeitaria Colombo, it's the oldest candy store in town, a really beautiful place with lots of mirrors and stuff; there is also Largo do Boticário, a XIXth century quarter, unfortunately in a decaying state. If you want to hear good music, go to the Bip Bip pub in Copacabana in a sunday night - you will hear the best samba of your life and it's totally free. If you want to party hard, friday night at Lapa - you'll find anything you want, from reggae to samba to funk to rock'n'roll, and drugs, lotsa drugs.

>>531980
I find it extremely offensive that you didn't take the time to answer my question.

>>531981
OP here. I'm really sorry.

>vc da ou nao da ?
Dou uma bimbada.

>UEHUEHUEHUEHUE?
BRBR

>>531983
You're alright.

>>531980
Thanks a lot! I am, in fact, into ecotourism and it is kinda on my route (going to Bolivia afterwards) so I guess I'll take a stop at Bonito then.

>>531966
Yes, I do think your hair looks good with gel in it.

>>531991
The way to know is not to think, but to lick.

Fight nonsense with nonsense.

Hey OP, is the legal community moving at all to allow foreign lawyers to affiliate with local law firms? Last time I checked, the only way to do it was to open up my own solo practice, because the usual practice (everywhere else) of a local firm hiring a "foreign legal adviser" was against the law in Brazil.

>>531966
What is a good online job source for jobs in Brazil?

Why do you guys laugh like " HAHUEAHEHUAHUEUAH " and not like HA HA HA HA

what are brazilians girls opinions about a tall northern european?

can you translate a song for me?

>>532080
Bureaucracy is a really complicated issue in the land of soccer. You would need a working visa in order to enter a private firm. Some may also requisite that you pass the OAB exam. Or else you could work as freelancing consultant from abroad.

>>532101
We type with our toes. I'm assuming you know we are actually monkeys.

>>532108
That depends on the Brazilian girl and on the Northern European, but common sense has it that they would get all drippy wet.

>>532114
Yes. I'm actually a translator. But I probably won't.

>>532095
I'll find that out for your, though I think there isn't any really good site for that.

Can you give me an approximation of how much the cost of life has risen during the last 3 years ?

How much for a skol 660ml ?
For a pack of Hollywood red ?
A liter of gasoline ?
A kilo of frozen chicken legs ?

And what city you live in, so i can get a better idea of what those prices mean.

How did Brazil go from one of the most well liked 3rd world countries in the world, to one of the most hated since the advent of the internet?

>>532149
>brazil
>3rd world

>>532152

>implying you have any idea of what 3rd world means.

I see pictures of multi-story buildings in Rio, how does the mud and sticks not collapse?

>>532133
>skol
why, dear god?

So... I actually would love to visit Brazil. I'm American, and speak less Portugese than the average Chinese native. What do?

>>532129
>require
fxd

>>532133
>Beer
I usually drink Heineken. The longneck costs R$2,00 at the supermarket and R$3,00 - R$7,00 at bars. A 660ml Skol must be around R$6,00 at bars. Recently, many people - myself included - have taken the habit of drinking real beer. The most popular is called Colorado and it costs about R$13,00 - R$18,00 at bars.

>Hollywood
R$4,00

>Gas
Around R$3,00

>Chicken legs
R$8,00

I live in three different cities, one of them being Rio.

>>532149
Brazilian nerds swarming in MMORPGS and derping so hard they are actually herping.
However, Brazil is only hated in the internet, not IRL.

>>532177
Centuries of tradition in primitive architecture. Now seriously, I don't know where you're from, dude, but Brazilian buildings are much more solid than American ones.

>>532218
You can either be cheated really hard everywhere you go or be really lucky and manage to find cool people willing to help. Either way you will have plenty of adventure. You can also pay me bus and flight tickets to the places you want to go and I will gladly translate everything for you.

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>>532190
Because it's the best seller in the butecos i used to frequent and locally the best "big brand" beer, if you had traveled around the country (or maybe you have but didn't pay attention) you would have noticed that the quality of brand beers in Brazil vary a lot from a region to another, they are not made in the same factories, do not use the same water, some are made in the city you stand, others travel a thousand kilometers with regular freezing and warming, ect...
Anyway imho all Brazilian brand beers are disgusting and that include the Brazilian heineken that does not taste anything like the original.

>>532263
Cheers buddy, that's like a 30% inflation in 3 years amirite ?

>>532279
Yeah, but at least Heineken is free of those nasty additives. I just can't stand AMBEV beers. I also live in Minas. When I'm there, I just stick to some good ol' cachaça.

And, dude, what did you want, you specifically asked me to tell you the prices of some of the most taxed products of the Brazilian economy. From my perspective, we are slowly achieving higher standards of life quality and the country is becoming better and better at each year that goes by.

Hi OP, I was wondering about traveling to Brazil for the Carnival in Feb.

I don't speak a word of Portuguese, is it hard to get around?
How much does Hostels cost around then?
Is the whole Carnival worth it or is it over-rated in your opinion?

>>532376

Not OP

1)You need people with you for carnaval, at least a bro (assuming you are a guy), well... someone you can loose at 9PM, that you can search for the whole night and finally find at 6AM when the crowd go to bed.

If you want to get a real hotel room in any city with a decent carnaval, you'd better book it now if it's not already too late. 2) You can always find somewhere to sleep just rockin in the place but it often means the right to pay a hundred dollars for 5 days sleeping on the bare floor with another 8 people. Not super safe to let valuables in the room in these conditions, not safe to carry them with you in the crowd either.

3) There is different types of carnaval in Brazil, for different tastes. Some are commercials, like the Salvador one where you need to pay to follow a block (and it isn't cheap) musicians stand on the top of a giant truck and the avenue is blocked 2 long rope held by an army of guys.
If you don't pay you can still listen to the music but you'll be in the bad spots with the crowd poors and frustrated. Here's a a vid : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04O1XG0F5VY

Blue shirts are the paying and HiV shirts the rope guys.

Rio main carnaval happen in the Sambodromo which s like a stadium where you have to pay for a seat if you want to see the samba schools. It's very expensive too. Aside of this main event there's small street carnavals and big indoor parties around the city.

>>532393 continuing....


Recife/Olinda has the biggest free carnaval. Olinda host a crazy street carnaval during the day, really in the spirit of what carnaval should be, most people wear costumes, you see random crazy stuff happening all the time, there's like a hundred different amateur blocks playing in the streets, all of this in a colonial town.
And at night the party s in Recife but it looks more like a giant cultural festival (there's rock and electro too), again all for free.
Here's a vid on Olinda :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzQh3l9MGA

There's also dozens of interesting smaller carnaval around Brazil but unfortunately the Salvador type carnaval with modern Bahian music and paid blocks is very common nowadays. (off season carnavals, you may have heard of are normally Salvador's carnaval replicas)

OP here.
Listen to this anon:
>>532394
>>532393

However, I must disagree on one point. Rio's street carnaval is nowadays exactly like this anon's description of Olinda's with amateur bands and costumed drunk-to-the-point-of-craziness people that take place all over the town. Despite being a huge metropolis, Rio has some historical neighborhoods, such as Santa Teresa that are really beautiful.

The Sambodromo holds parades with allegoric cars and it can be really nice if you are into that kinda stuff. But you must research before buying the tickets. The parade is a championship divided in ranks and, of course, the days in which the best 'samba schools' - it's how they call each 'team' - do their parades are more expensive.

As the other anon said, there are lots of small villages that hold traditional carnaval parties, with good music and parades, all over the country.

Do NOT go to commercial carnavals. It doesn't play samba at all, only shitty music, and it's filled with guido-like people -- we have a lot of that in Brazil, except for the artifical tan as people can easily get natural tan. The guidos/guidettes compete with their friends who will kiss the largest number of men/women. Nice way to catch herpes if you want my opinion.

If you don't speak Portuguese, you will depend solely on your luck. I strongly advice that you come with a friend. At carnaval it's easy to let yourself go and get extremely high from booze and all sort of drugs, not to mention the hot chicks. Oh yeah, odds are you will fuck lotsa chicks -- assuming you are not a freak or gay or something.

Pic related. It's Rio.