As South America's largest country, Brazil is home to world-famous destinations like Rio de Janeiro — which boasts some of the world's most famous beaches — and the Amazon Rainforest, where river ...

Wine from Brazil? No, no. Brazil is sugar cane and bananas, sultry beaches with girls from Ipanema, sweet summer sweat and writhing Carnaval dancers. Ah, but Brazil is large — 2,600 miles long — with ...

This was the best day of riding that I have done in Brazil. Serra do Rio do Rastro is almost certainly the most famous motorcycle ride in Brazil, with countless steep switchbacks as you ascend/descend ...

Grapewise, things are looking peachy this year in the Vale dos Vinhedos -- the Valley of the Vineyards. A big reason is Mama Natureza, or Mother Nature. She was good this year to this mountain region ...

High in southern Minas Gerais, a small Brazilian city has become famous for looking as if it grew straight out of the mountain beneath it. São Tomé das Letras sits around 4,724 feet above sea level, ...

The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But one group of insects, the Darwin wasps, were thought to buck that trend.