I leave to Brazil in 3 months?

Question

I am going for a year. any ideas besides "Learn Portugeuse"?

Answer 1

buy some good binoculars to check out the babes with

Answer 2

Depends where you will stay.

Basics I think are:

Insurace that covers good hostpitals (São Paulo should include Einstein and Sirio & Libanes - Rio Clinica São Vicente, Gávea, Barra D´or, Samaritano).

Health care in Brazil by law is universal, but it sticks, really bad.

Credit cards.

Depending where you are going, some vaccines.

If you take some special medication, make sure to bring it, the pharmaceutical industry is huge, but a lot of the names are diferent and a prescription, if needed, has to be from a Brazilian doc.

Can´t think of anything else.

A drivers license, if you drive. But go to the AAA or whoever issues such things and get an international.

The equivalence deal of Brazil is only good to countries which officialy accept the Brazilian license.

Not sure where you are from, but the US and Canada lincenses are not accepted, legaly.

Answer 3

Make sure your passport is okay.  Apply for a visa (if your country requires one of Brazilians).  Forget about going for a year if you're American (maximum: six months).  Get the required yellow fever vaccine if you'll be going to the rainforest or the Pantanal.  (Assume the Federales will ask you for your papers on at least one occasion.)  Visit the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (see below) and ponder malaria, typhoid, hepatitis A&B, and tetanus too.  Bring your prescription if you wear glasses.      

Spend your first month acclimating yourself in one city.

Eat: feijoada on weekends, veggies at kilo restaurants ($ = wt.), chicken, sushi (cheap!), multi-vitamins & calcium pills.

Drink: bottled water, sucos (smoothies) ... Bohemia if available, Antartica if not.

Consult: Berlitz pocket phrasebook, Lonely Planet pocket map of Rio, dining & entertainment listings in Friday newspapers.

Wear: jeans and a shirt with concealed zipper pockets, clothes bought at Brazilian markets, a plastic watch if any, Off! (mosquito spray, available and recommended locally -- dengue fever is back big time), sunscreen.

Carry daily: Minimum money, merchants' plastic bags instead of a pack, a photocopy of your  main passport/visa pages.

Consider: Lençois/Chapada Diamantina (hippie town/national park), Minas Gerais (great state), Curitiba (college town), Foz do Iguaçu (spectacular falls), orienteering events (opportunities to run in the woods with map & compass).

Ask: Little old ladies, when you're lost.        

http://www.cdc.gov/travel (health)

http://www.travelsmith.com (clothes)

http://www.cbo.org.br (orienteering)

Answer 4

for VISA information go to www.brol.com

Answer 5

Especially if you are in Rio, avoid wearing any flashy or looks gold. Generally, wear casually. Don't carry a leather briefcase that makes you look you're carrying loads of cash. And never answer any stranger that asks for the time. That's an old trick of a thief!

Never walk alone in the city at night. Once I was tailed by a man in downtown Sao Paulo until I reached the front gate of my apartment and they guard opened the door in for me just in time.  And I saw a man holding a knife hiding behind a bush beside a crowded area.  

Always carry your passport, otherwise make several copies that you keep in your luggage, wallet and keep a copy in another seperate bag.

Be nice to people, smile. Brazilians are nice to foreigners.

Didn't mean to scare you but other than that, I think Brazil is stiill a lot safer than Detroit, NYC or Miami!!! And it is a beautiful country!

Answer 6

Don´t trust in police officers, Try new kind of life instructions, Put your thumb always up and sunblock, I lot!!!