Brazil Blog
About this blog
Thrill of Brazil is a travel blog all about Brazil written by Moon Brazil author Michael Sommers. Michael blogs about Brazil travel, culture, and more. He welcomes questions, comments, and story ideas.
Recent Posts
- Care for a Drink with your Film? (or a Film with your Drink?)
- Brazil’s Homegrown Tourism Boom
- Brazil's Best and Write-est
- Making House Calls in Rio (Part II)
- Making House Calls in Rio (Part I)
- The Dawning of Brazil's B&B Age
- Rio's Alternative Points of View
- Taxi Trouble in Santa Teresa
- Obamas Take to the Campaign Trail in Brazil
- Plans and Punctuality
- Reliving Tropicalismo - On and Off Screen
- Food and Lodging that Make the Grade
- The Making of Moon Living Abroad in Brazil
- U.S. is Number One Source of Immigrants to Brazil
- Best English-Language Blogs about Brazil
Road Trip to Chapada: The Way Home
Although I’ve never had a car – or a driver’s license for that matter – I love road trips.
That’s why I was psyched when (as I wrote about last week) it was decided that my friends Myra and Edi, their daughter Alice, their friend Barbosa, and I would be Salvador from to the Chapada Diamantina by car (driven exclusively by the valiant Myra – like me, neither Edi nor Barbosa have driver’s licenses. Alice’s excuse is that she’s only 7-years-old). more >>
Road Trip to Chapada: Eating Our Way There
Although I’ve never had a car – or a driver’s license for that matter – I love road trips.
That’s why I was psyched when (as I wrote about last week) it was decided that my friends Myra and Edi, their daughter Alice, their friend Barbosa, and I would be traveling from Salvador to the Chapada Diamantina by car (driven exclusively by the valiant Myra – like me, neither Edi nor Barbosa have driver’s licenses. Alice’s excuse is that she’s only 7-years-old). more >>
All About Eden: the Vale do Capão
Sometimes the best things in life are last-minute.
Like the way I ended up ringing in the New Year in Bahia’s Chapada Diamantina.
Two days before Christmas, close friends of mine, Edi and Myra, informed me they were going to the Chapada and insisted I come along. They were going to be camping out on the property of friends of theirs who had a house on a mountainside in the Vale do Capão. When I called around to check for availability in pousadas, as I had expected everything was booked up. Moreover, the accommodations that were available were being sold as pacotes de Reveillon (New Year’s packages); based on double occupancy, the rates were characteristically sky-high. more >>
Changing Face(s) of Brazil
No matter where in the world you live, come the end of the year, you get to thinking about the changes going on in your life and in the country you call home.
Brazil has certainly undergone profound transformations in recent times, some of which were revealed in statistics that were recently released as part of the 2010 census. Conducted by the IBGE, (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), censuses are carried out every decade in Brazil. The most surprising result of the latest one was the fact that, for the first time ever, non-whites made up the majority (more than 50 percent) of the Brazilian population.
Of a total population of 191 million Brazilians, 91 million identified themselves as white, 82 million as mixed race, and 15 million as black. more >>
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