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Brazil...It is more than pride, it is an adiction...when you start travelling around and also working with it, you notice that there are so many things to see, incredible experiences with gorgeous landscapes and very interesting people.

It is great to be brazilian and much more special when I feel that I was born in Rio de Janeiro.

Rio is the gateway of the country, and Brazil is a spectacular house to explore! I have a traveller spirit, and I do have the joy to share the real taste of this country that everytime in your life will introduce you to a new place. Actually Brazil is the fifth biggest country in the World.

27 States we do have in the country, and thanks God, there are 10 States left to visit. My work covers all over the country, I do love making people's dreams and plans come true, and thanks to that I have the glorious privilege to go everywhere in the country. I go north, I go south, I go west and I go east....And every single place I have been it is a news story of life that I take part.

I wish I could write more about all the palces I visit, because I see that people overseas get more and more interested about experience Brazil in a different way. A Brazil with no mask, a Brazil withing the locals, a Brazil who are not afraid to be happy!

When you hear about Brazil, you will for sure think about Copacabana...Indeed it is a beautiful place, well I live there....but when you find out about a place called Marajó and you come across with a beach two times bigger than Copacabana (Aruanã Beach), and you realize that you are the only ONE PERSON in the beach...then you think BRAZIL IS A BLESSED COUNTRY!;)

I am inspired by the wilderness of Amazon forest, that picture was taken in the remote island of Marajó, one of our lost paradises up north, right in the entrance of the LONGEST RIVER IN THE WORLD....

Maranhão holds incredible surprises for the most experienced traveller, just imagine when you are not a great traveller and decide to come to Brazil for the first timeand come across with such an spectacular landscape like this one in the picture???

SO FOLKS...PARADISE IS HERE!!!

I have many reasons to be in love with Brazil! And I do LOVE this land with extreme passion!

I always believe that everyday is Mother's Day, but once in a year we have one special day to make a tribute for the woman who brought you to this world!

It is hard to express the big meaning of this woman to me, all I know that I would not reach half of what I have without My Mother's Goodness and big help in my education!

Living with her is like being in cuba with a Sweet Fidel Castro in my daily life, she loves me I know and with her love she made what I am today...If I am kind with people and know how to respect everyone, she taught me the values to respect everybody no matter who they are, she gave me love and I give love to anyone because she sent me LOTS OF LOVE TO MY HEART AND TO MY LIFE!

She gave me everything even what she could not have, but she provided me knowledge, and she gave me the tools for me to make what you read right now, more information about Brazil, the land that she always taught me how to love, she told me that our land is sacred, our land will be everlasting in our life history and in our heart.

Mother Stella is the great strengh of my life, and she rules my life with a strong hand but with a light wind of freedom. She taught me the values of freedom, something that for one weird reason I do not feel this breeze coming from people I know in our environment. But I do not care, she also gave me the power to forgive and walk ahead, no matter what problems we have!

She is a woman of courage, and faced many difficulties in life with no fear. And I have the strengh of the wind to gain my future and will of God to succedd in life!

She is a woman of goodness....telling me that it is always important to build a smile in everyone's face! And that is why even with no conditions I walways try to promote social work in the poor communities close to me!

We have our up and downs, so many high moments that together we touch the clouds, and some deep downs that make us a real war worst than any war in Iraq. but above all we understand that the love between son and mother is unique, it is a link that no one can take away from us!

I am proud to have her blood in my veins and really proud to be her son!

I am the son of a wonderful person, I am the son of someone with a great heart, big enough to host all of you!

Not only to my mother, but to all mother in the World, I wish you loads of love, tons of peace, and great elephants of happiness.

We always have to remember that our great gift of life came from the belly of a woman.

LONG LIFE TO EVERY WOMAN IN THIS PLANET!

In April 1500 the first portuguese came here and found a new land, and it was a good deal for Portugal as it became one of the richest countries in Europe in that time, 505 years later many portuguese keep on coming here, and some of them still can see what the first settlers saw it, the nature is so huge and generous here that we still keep untouched landscapes, forests, beaches rivers, sand dunes.

Brazil can be modern and daring, when you look to Sao Paulo the heart of our financial life, when you look to Brasilia so modern and so developed, when you look for Curitiba which reaches the same level of life of many cities in Scandinavia, when you see that we have the same facilities that everybody in the world have!

Brazil can be wild, and this is my favourite side of my country, when you realize that we have the biggest forest in the world, when you see that we hold a big portion of all the water in the planet, when we see the power of the Nature thhrough Iguazu Falls, when you see the gorgeous coastline of the country, and or simply in the back of your house a cute monkey come to eat banana!

This is Brazil, a land of different races where everybody live with no racial differences, a place with lots of rhythms that can make your back shake in all directions, a place where everybody welcome you with a large smile in the face!

I am doing my best to make this country a better place for me and my brazilian brothers, I want to show to the world our beauty, our charm and our ellegance, I want to make everyone see the best of our resources and provide lots of happiness in the most unknown corners of the country!

The Capital of Brazil is Brasilia and we have 27 States divided in 5 very interesting regions.

THE NORTH with its rain forest which covers all the States of the Region, a region with exotic forest, impressive fauna, mysterious rivers and legends.

THE NORTH EAST - A region of desert beaches and lots of historic towns, land of Salvador the hottest racial melting pot and our fist capital, a region with sand dunes and rich folklore, the land of very cheerful people.

THE CENTRAL BRAZIL - The land of endless wetlands Pantanal and nature boom, the land of our CERRADO, the land of incredible rivers and big farmlands!

THE SOUTH EAST - Here you can find me!:) I live in Rio de Janeiro State, this is also the region of gorgeous mountains village, here you can find SAO PAULO and experience big brazilian urban cities, this is the region of MY NITEROI, the place where I have my friends, this is my land and the land of my love! This is the land of tradition and good food of Minas Gerais, this is the land of great green mountains of Esprito Santo!

THE SOUTH - Where Brazil is more european, it is the place where you see the fierce falls of Iguazu and where you can experience the Ocean Forest, the place of deep traditions, and sunny beaches of Florianopolis.

Brasil is for everybody, Brazil is more than a country, it is a whole continent to provide to anyone, the best trip ever!

I love my country and it is my duty to make anyone feel at home here!

Remember, Brazil is much more than you hear in the TV News, just come here and see it for yourself, and take your own conclusions, YOU WILL BE VERY SURPRISED!