There is not one Brazil but five or six, and they have little in common. Salvador: candomblé, dendê oil, drums and acarajé. Rio lives outdoors. Ouro Preto keeps its baroque churches in the hills of Minas, and the Pantanal shows more jaguars than the Amazon ever reveals. Brasília remains Niemeyer's gamble. Carnival takes a year of preparation for four days.
