Having just visited Brazil for the first time I was amazed by how delightful both the country and the people are. It was a great experience enjoying the food, the South American music and dancing, and the lifestyle of the Brazilian countryside and beach resorts. I didn’t realise before that Brazil occupies roughly half the [...]
Acai is an Amazonian palm tree, and possesses small purple fruits that the Amazonian natives of Brazil have used since time immemorial as food and as a remedy for certain health conditions that are now known to be associated with the activity on free radicals on body cells.
The active constituents of acai are powerful polyphenols [...]
Bolivia is sometimes called the Tibet of the Americas, for its arid, high-altitude desert-like plateau, more vivid when called by its Spanish name altiplano. This is one of the toughest inhabited environments on earth from shimmering Lake Titicaca, the only lake to give birth to an empire, to the surreal Salar de Uyuni, the biggest [...]