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The Rio Carnival arrives with a bang before Lent every year, and given that it sees two million people per day burst onto the city streets, it is considered the worlds largest carnival. Its origins come from the Portuguese, who brought the celebration of carnival to Brazil in about 1850. Black slaves became involved in celebrations, and were allowed to be free for five days during the festivities, which soon took on a uniquely Latin American feel. Expect flamboyant costumes with more diamante and glitter than a Swarovski factory, and more excitement than you can shake a Brazilian bottom at. For more information, visit: rio-carnival.net
The Rio Carnival arrives with a bang before Lent every year. Photo: Getty
4. Visit the lagoon-filled dunes in Lenois Maranhenses National Park
Although this area in north-eastern Brazil, covering 1500 sq km, initially appears to be a desert like any other, the proximity to the Amazon basin means that it is actually subject to not insignificant rainfall, leading to the creation of alien-like lagoons among the white sands. Park residents work mainly as fishermen, moving to more urban areas during the dry season. Getting into the park is difficult (there are no direct access roads) but come tour operators offer trekking trips, including Bespoke Brazil (01603 340680; bespokebrazil.com)
5. Escape from the city to an artists retreat
An antidote to the hubbub of Brazils big cities, Olinda is said to be the countrys best preserved colonial city, where artisans workshops crouch alongside colourful old houses and years-old churches. Indeed, the historic centre was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1982. Visit the S de Olinda cathedral, originally a small mud chapel and now a baroque-style, haunting white, red-roofed building (open from Tues-Sun, 9am-5pm) and the Museu de Arte Sacra de Pernambuco, housed in a former Bishops Palace (Tues- Fri 10am- 4pm, Sat-Sun 10am-2pm).
6. Climb Sugarloaf mountain
This peak Po de Acar soars to 1,299ft above Rios harbour, and is one of several granite and quartz mountains around the city. You can reach the summit by cable car, on a line originally built in 1912, in six minutes, or tackle it on foot, which will take three hours, and involve downward views best avoided by vertigo sufferers. Journey Latin America can arrange tailor-made itineraries for Brazil include trekking to Sugarloafs summit (020 3582 0822; journeylatinamerica.co.uk)
Bonito's surrounding natural landscapes have underground lakes. Photo: Alamy
7. Snorkel in Bonito
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World Wide Trekking is excited to announce all new educational travel trips for 2015. In a partnership with Stanford University Travel Study, World Wide Trekking will send the first group of Alumni in October of 2015. World Wide Trekking founder and lead guide, Dean Cardinale, is currently in Nepal securing arrangements for next year's trip to Everest Base Camp, where climbers will trek to altitudes of up to 18,300'.
Founded in 2006, World Wide Trekking quickly found a niche market, catering to discerning clientele and specializing in luxury adventure travel. Part of World Wide Trekking's mission is giving back to the places their guests visit through the company's sister 501(c)(3) non-profit, the Human Outreach Project.
In Nepal, WWTrek currently runs its Signature Group Treks to Everest Base Camp in May and October, as well as Custom Private Adventures on Ama Dablam and Lobuche Peak. In 2013, WWTrek partnered with the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center to run cataract intervention surgeries at the Jiri Eye Camp in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
The company has recently expanded to cater to Alumni groups, while keeping its group size limited and paying attention to the standard of quality and customer service that the company is known for. WWTrek has plans to continue this growth, adding additional trips in 2016. For more information visit http://www.wwtrek.com or email info(at)wwtrek(dot)com
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YOUR GOLF TRAVEL will refund more than 1 million to its customers who correctly nominate the winner of this years football World Cup.
Golfers who make a booking through the company before the start of the tournament will be given the chance to predict the winning nation. If that team goes on to lift the trophy in Rio de Janeiro on July 13, they'll be celebrating with a full refund on the price of their holiday!
Customers can choose from any of the 32 participating countries in the Brazil showpiece, but so far its been one-way traffic in support of the tournament hosts according to Ross Marshall, chief executive of Your Golf Travel.
The bookmakers fancy the likes of Neymar, Oscar and David Luiz to take Brazil to a sixth World Cup crown and our customers certainly agree, tipping the South Americans almost to the exclusion of all other sides so far, Marshall said.
If Brazil do end up winning, then we expect to be forking out somewhere between 1 million and 2 million in refunds to our loyal customers. Rio will be turned into a party and that party will extend to thousands of golfers who book with us.
Your Golf Travel Ambassador Darren Clarke, whom many have seen on the Just tell them Darren sent you adverts, says he will alter his famous line should Uruguay win.
As many of you know, Im a massive Liverpool fan. So when I booked my golf holiday to Spain, I picked Uruguay. Given the form Luis Suarez has been in this season, I can see him leading them to victory.
If they win and I get a free golf holiday, Ill tell everyone in the next advert that Luis sent me!
To be eligible for this promotion, customers must book and pay for their golf break between May 12 - June 12. No amendments can be made to the booking.
For more information about Your Golf Travel, please visit the Your Golf Travel websiteor call 0800 043 6644
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Bud Grant failed to win a Super Bowl in four attempts as Vikings head coach during the 1970s. Running back Adrian Peterson has never qualified in seven superstar seasons with Minnesota.
Yet civic duty calls the icons to help deliver a defining victory for the franchise Tuesday when the Vikings and Minnesota Super Bowl LII committee woo league owners for the chance to play host to the NFL championship game in 2018.
The competition is formidable; New Orleans and Indianapolis already have been host to successful Super Bowls, and each has the major advantage of a venue that is actually built.
But Minnesota has advantages, as well.
Presenters Richard Davis, chief executive of U.S. Bancorp, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, former CEO of Carlson Cos.
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Videotaped speeches from Grant, Peterson and other local celebrities including Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn and chef Andrew Zimmern will help bring Minnesota's detailed bid to life this week in the ballroom of Atlanta's Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
"We're going to put a plan together that will blow their mind," Davis said.
Dennis Hopper actually did back in 2008.
The late actor/director/iconoclast made the pitch that year for Indianapolis, a town Hopper adopted after earning an Academy Award nomination for playing alcoholic assistant coach "Shooter" in the 1986 high school basketball movie "Hoosiers."
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Image Caption: Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over a span of 20 years, shows how the planet's trademark spot has decreased in size over the years. Credit: NASA/ESA
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Jupiters trademark Great Red Spot a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured.
According to Amy Simon of NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm the Great Red Spot now is approximately 10,250 miles across. Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the 1930s.
Historic observations as far back as the late 1800s gauged the storm to be as large as 25,500 miles on its long axis. NASA Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flybys of Jupiter in 1979 measured it to be 14,500 miles across. In 1995, a Hubble photo showed the long axis of the spot at an estimated 13,020 miles across. And in a 2009 photo, it was measured at 11,130 miles across.
Beginning in 2012, amateur observations revealed a noticeable increase in the rate at which the spot is shrinking by 580 miles per year changing its shape from an oval to a circle.
In our new observations it is apparent very small eddies are feeding into the storm, said Simon. We hypothesized these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot.
Simons team plans to study the motions of the small eddies and the internal dynamics of the storm to determine whether these eddies can feed or sap momentum entering the upwelling vortex, resulting in this yet unexplained shrinkage.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington.
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