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Fernando de Noronha, an aquarium island.
We leave port in a wreck of a catamaran that actually sails just fine. On board: the captain, the Rasta, the rookie and us. No one else. For once, we’ve been lucky. The Mar de Fora is calm, and so we’ll be able to go to Pedra Seca, the best place to dive in Fernando de Noronha. We are in a heavenly little island an hour away by airplane from the Brazilian coast. Though discovered by Amerigo Vespucci, it was given the name of the capitalist on the expedition. But it’s also true that when Vespucci explored the great continent, he stopped the nonsense and gave it his own name. Explorer, yes, but no dummy.
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Rio de Janeiro, candidate for the 2016 Olympic Games.
With Rio the Janeiro, the Portuguese got it all wrong. It wasn’t a river, and it wasn’t this pretty in January. Rio is amazing year round or, better yet, was amazing. If you have some imagination, climb up Pão de Açúcar, half close your eyes and delete all the apartment buildings from view. There’s no other city in the world located in a paradise such as this.
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Rio de Janeiro, site of the largest sambadrome.
If Argentinean teenagers get plastic breasts as a birthday present from their parents, then God gives their Brazilian counterparts the same and then some. Breasts about to take off and butts like landing strips, chocolate suntans and designer bikinis… They put Christ the Redeemer on top of the Corcovado to make sure that with so much beauty the cariocas didn’t lose sight of reality. Maybe that’s why going topless is not appreciated in Brazil. Never mind, Brazilians, smart as they are, made swimsuits so tiny that here, dressed-up women are sexier than naked women in other countries. You see, next to Ipanema or Copacabana, Benidorm is like a common butcher’s shop.
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