Some 2,000 athletes from many indigenous ethnic groups and 30 countries are taking part in the first World Indigenous Games.
The event in the northern Brazilian city of Palmas officially gets under way on Friday and will end on 31 October. President Dilma Rousseff is expected to attend the lavish opening ceremony. Indigenous peoples from countries including Ethiopia, Mongolia and Brazil sang and danced at the ceremony, dressed in traditional outfits. Among the sports included in the games are archery, spear tossing, canoeing and a race through the forest.
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The event in the northern Brazilian city of Palmas officially gets under way on Friday and will end on 31 October. President Dilma Rousseff is expected to attend the lavish opening ceremony. Indigenous peoples from countries including Ethiopia, Mongolia and Brazil sang and danced at the ceremony, dressed in traditional outfits. Among the sports included in the games are archery, spear tossing, canoeing and a race through the forest.
Brazil travel guide
Coverage includes: Planning chapters, Plan Your Trip, Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro State, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo State, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasília, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Piauí, Maranhão, The Amazon, Understand and Survival chapters.
You can pick and choose from complete guides and individual chapters, and download them to any device you like.
Click here to visit the Lonely Planet shop for more ebooks and print versions.
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by Simon Raven & Chris Raven
Overland travel writers, Chris Raven and Simon Raven, embark on a new comedy adventure that leads them to the wild and colourful continent of South America. From bull's testicles in Buenos Aires to bums and boobs on the beaches of Brazil, the Raven brothers put their dream plans into action and traverse the Trans- oceanic highway from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast of South America.
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