After adventures in the Amazon or exploring its sprawling cities, holidaymakers in Brazil have ample opportunity to do little more than lie on a towel and pitch up a parasol on its soft sandy shores.

Milagres is known locally as the “ Brazilian Caribbean ,” with Praia de Tatuamunha as the main character. If you’re going to ...

R I O   D E   J A N E I R O, Brazil, Nov. 13 -- Ironically in a country known for skimpy bikinis that reveal more than theycover, Rio de Janeiro has balked for the past nine years at ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold by hawkers, chairs sprawled across the ...

Quinalha pointed out that Rio’s 1995 march was iconic for initiating a process of awareness-raising that spread throughout ...