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Brazil

Travel to Brazil

About Brazil

Brazil covers about half of South America and is the continent’s largest nation. It extends 2,965 mi (4,772 km) north-south, 2,691 mi (4,331 km) east-west, and borders every nation on the continent save Chile and Ecuador. Brazil’s futuristic capital is the closest undertaking on earth to a produce a modern utopia. It’s the result of a long-harnessed Brazilian dream of an inland capital, carved out of nowhere in the 1950s in a spectacular feat of urban planning, architectural visualize and political prophecy. The purpose-built borough and its surrounding area, known as the Distrito Federal (DF), occupies allotment of the Brazilian principal plateau – the Planalto – totaling 5802 sq km, with rolling hills and a large artificial lake, Paranoa.

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Australia

Travel to Australia

About Australia

The continent of Australia, with the island shape of Tasmania, is approximately equal in size to the Common States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Sure it’s got deadly spiders, snakes and sharks, but they don’t stop individuals from coming here, never mind living here. And after good reason. From the prehistoric gorges of Kakadu National Park, to the white sails of the Sydney Opera House, Australia is a fatherland as enormous your imagination. Kick encourage on a beach as ivory as your mother’s wedding dress in Western Australia; misplace yourself in the labyrinthine laneways of culture-rich Melbourne or be humbled by red desert sunsets over Uluru. Turn south to befall hundred year old giants that loom large in the forests of Tasmania or take on Sydney, a heady mix of surf, sun, change and sex, and you’ll soon realise Australia is a place to be discovered, not feared.

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Argentina

Travel to Argentina

About Argentina

Second in South America only to Brazil in bulk and population, Argentina is a plain, rising from the Atlantic to the Chilean border and the towering Andes peaks. Arriving in Buenos Aires is like jumping aboard a moving train. Outside the taxi window, a blurred mosaic of drab apartment blocks and haphazard architecture whizzes by as you shoot along the freeway toward the center of town. The driver – probably driving fashion too fast while chain-smoking and talking incessantly about government corruption – lastly merges off the freeway. Then the actual city appears, the cafes, the purple jacaranda flowers draped upon the sidewalks, stylish portenos (residents of Buenos Aires) walking purposefully past the newspaper stands and candy kiosks and handsome early-20th-century stone facades.

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