About

Going to Brazil is a website blog about culture and tourism.

For over one year, I was sharing tips about traveling to Brazil on a budget. I actually tried, I was studying for a Cambridge Certificate and used the blog as a draft. I committed many grammatical errors, but I didn’t care , as long as the message was understood, language misspelling is not a barrier in my opinion.

In early 2013, just after carnival season, I had a moment of clarity. It came as I was writing this blog. I came to the conclusion that it was better if my scope was wider than just the topic of tourism. I wrote poorly and often addressed myself in the third peron. As I’ve previously mentioned I changed the website mission. I am not only going to talk about tourism, but as an expat Brazilian living in Ireland and afro descendent ( I know the picture here doesn’t help however, I am mixed race) , I should be more critical, cynical and realistic. I will debate the subject area of tourism and share my favorite spots and all the good stuff including carnival and football, but I will also talk about social and political problems despite everybody nowadays thinking about Brazil as an economical and social paradise. We are far from that, the reality shows us that we still have deep social problems.

More about me:

Going to Brasil is published by me, a Brazilian graduate in Tourism , awarded by Unesco Comparative Institute of the University of Connecticut as a youth leader role model in South America. A self-declared hopeless nomad, recently living in Dublin, teaching Portuguese as a second language, studying English as second language , translation and managing her two websites about Brazil: Goingtobrasil, and teaching Portuguese as a second language: PortugueseTalk.

Now in first person:

One thing that I would like to clarify is that English is not my first language,although I have advanced skills(well I think,but sometimes I feel like going back to basic),I do make mistakes and I try my best to not post anything grammatically incorrect.Reaching fluency is a never-ending task and this website is a major tool for my improvement.If you spot any error,please report, I deal well criticism.

The travel guide for each destination it’s something that I still writing and gathering material, I created the Travel Basic section with general information about traveling to Brazil.

It’s important to clarify that,I am not a travel agency and I don’t represent any governmental institution or private company.This is an independent travel blog.Please refer to the contact page for information about advertisements and ways to contact me.

For more info about my work please check : www.revise.portuguesetalk.com

Comments policy

Free speech, good arguments and constructive criticism will be always welcome here. On the other hand, personal or gratuitous attacks and offensive vocabulary will not be accepted, because they disturb both this blogger and the debate.

Credits and Disclaimer

I do my best to give credit to text, photographs, graphical or artwork used in this website. Most pictures come from Flickr/Creative Commons and I link to the page of their authors.If you believe that material located on or linked to by the Site violates your copyright, please alert me. I will respond to all such notices, as required or appropriate,removing the material and disabling the link as soon as possible.

My own content,photos and graphics

About my writings and graphics, they are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Going to Brasil by Luana Cavalcanti is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at www.goingtobrasil.com.

Goingtobrasil is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Some of the links contained within this site have my referral ID including the website store, which provides me with a small commission for each sale because goingtobrasil is self-funded and it helps me to pay the costs of running the website. Nevertheless, I make a point of writing my posts based on the quality of products, not my commercial interest.

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