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Visiting Brazil
What's been your image of Brazil?
Above the clouds with a reflection of the sunrise to the west.
Not my expectation of "jungles."
Very interesting terrain of hills, woods, & roads.
Sun-up around 5 a.m., 365 days of the year.
An hour out from Recife, Pernambuco (one of 26 states, along with a federal zone for the capital city, Brasilia), we were coming in along the northeastern coast on Azul Airlines on a 7 hour direct flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida (March 16-17, 2023). Recife's population, the 4th largest city in Brazil, is over 4 million. The language is Portuguese (the only country with it in South America).
P.S. Sun-down is around 5 - 5:30 p.m., 365 days of the year! The temp averages around 80° F, give or take -/+ 8 degrees, for winter-/summer+, with humidity changes. It was the fall season because seasons are reversed south of the equator.
ABOUT US: Why we chose to visit Brazil - A son is a teacher in an American International School. Since many Americans don't know much about countries in South America, I thought I'd share the findings with you :).
Recife, pronounced "ruh see' fee" in American English, but in Portuguese the "r" has the "h" (ha) sound.
Home for the next month
Recife is on the eastern most tip of Brazil, the closest point to Africa. It is one hour ahead of the U.S.'s Eastern time zone. At least a half-mile wide strip (greater depth in some areas) is filled with 100s and 100s of high- rises, like the apartment courtyard above, all along the Recife coast line which goes for miles and miles. Inland from that are all the hundreds of thousands of family homes built around many waterways & forested areas. This coastal area of high-rises is also mixed with old homes, various kinds of living quarters which are not in high-rises (from homeless along the canals & rivers, to shacks-to-modern-dwellings just as we find in many large cities throughout the United States), businesses of everything imaginable, malls, restaurants, schools, sidewalk-street & push cart-market shopping areas, etc., & restoration & redevelopment of the old, & ongoing development of the new. The center of "downtown" is on an island . . . again, a huge mixture of the old & new, side-by-side, or new being renovated inside the old structures.
New Places & Faces
Recife's 1st Night - Eating at the car wash & going to the Blue Church market!
Recife[1] - Continue to Page 2, the Blue Church Market on the 1st night out ---->
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