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Last Minute Rio Carnival 2012 Travel Deals
If you are a procrastinator like me and always ended up waiting till the last minute to make plans, then you are in luck. Our friends over at Cheap-O-Air and Hotels Combined Rio have just let us know they still have some last minute Brazil flight and hotel deals available for Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2012. Rio Carnival 2012 is Brazil’s biggest party of the year and one of the busiest and most expensive times to travel to the country. So keep in mind that prices for hotels and flights can be double and even in some cases triple the normal rate. You will definitely pay a premium to visit Rio during Carnival 2012.
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Crackdown On Brazil’s Popular But Illegal Jogo Do Bicho Game
Brazil’s very popular, but illegal gambling game Jogo do Bicho (Animal Game) has been coming under a lot of pressure in Rio de Janeiro lately. Rio de Janeiro police have been targeting gambling bosses in an operation called Dedo de Deus (Finger of God).
Read the Full Story via Brazil’s illegal numbers game under pressure…
Ashton Kutcher Partying In Brazil, While Demi Dying On Her Deathbed
Ok I so I went a little overboard with the title of this post. I just have had enough with the media trying to bash my boy Ashton Kutcher for being in Brazil and partying it up with Brazilian supermodels, while his estranged wife Demi Moore had to be taken to the hospital for a bad reaction to the nitrous oxide she had been reportedly using to get high. The media is hating on Ashton with article titles such as “Ashton Kutcher was surfing and drinking while ex Demi Moore was being rushed to hospital”, “Ashton Parties While Demi Is Sick”, “Ashton Kutcher At Brazilian Beer Bash During Demi’s Darkest Days.”
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Brazilian Tourist Are Invading South Florida
It’s amazing to see firsthand the world as it changes. I remember not that long ago Americans from the USA were flocking to Brazil, living it up on vacation with a strong US dollar. Now the tide has turned and exactly the opposite is happening. Brazil’s economy is doing really well and Brazilian tourist are now invading South Florida cities like Miami and Orlando in record numbers. According to state tourism officials Brazilians outnumbered all other international tourist visiting Florida in 2011.
I came across an interesting article on CNN.com today written by John Couwels exactly about this new phenomenon. Read the Fully Story via Florida’s tourism gets a boost from a Brazilian invasion…
FIFA Criticizes Brazil For Behind Schedule World Cup Stadiums
FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has criticized Brazil for not having a single stadium ready yet for the upcoming 2014 World Cup being held in Brazil. Valcke was in Brazil visiting the two host cities of Fortaleza and Salvador. Valcke is asking Brazil to pick up the pace and is pressing Brazilian lawmakers to quickly approve a package of laws regulating the World Cup.
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Music Monday: Bom Gosto – Contando Formiga (VIDEO)
Band Bom Gosto performing Contando Formiga on Radio Mania.
Facebook the Nightclub Opening in Brazil
Here is kind of a crazy and interesting story I came across this weekend. So apparently this 30 year old guy named Humbert Camacho from a small remote town in Brazil’s Amazon came up with an idea to open a nightclub called Facebook. Yes the nightclub’s actual name is Facebook, crazy right?
I don’t know how the powers at Facebook will feel about or respond to it, but I think it’s a pretty clever idea, especially since Facebook has just overtaken Orkut as the #1 social networking site in Brazil. Read the Full Story via Facebook, the club: social networking on the dancefloor in Brazilian Amazon.
The “Playboy Prince” Harry Is Headed To Brazil In March
According to reports The “Playboy Prince” Harry himself will be visiting Brazil from March 9-14. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague announced Prince Harry’s scheduled visit today and said the prince would be visiting the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Harry will be visiting the country as part of a Royal trade envoy to strengthen UK’s economic ties with Brazil, which recently overtook the UK as the 6th largest economy in the world. This will be Harry’s first trip to Brazil. Harry is scheduled to wrap up official business on March 11 and will be staying another three days privately until March 14.
Last Minute Rio Carnival 2012 Travel Deals
Crackdown On Brazil’s Popular But Illegal Jogo Do Bicho Game
Ashton Kutcher Partying In Brazil, While Demi Dying On Her Deathbed
Brazilian Tourist Are Invading South Florida
FIFA Criticizes Brazil For Behind Schedule World Cup Stadiums
Facebook the Nightclub Opening in Brazil
