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[Mr Enternational]

What I have decided is to bring just under 10000 reais and use debit cards to withdraw cash from atms. With two debit cards from different banks I can withdraw 4000 reais per day.

Anybody else have input or experiences with this?

What is with the cash obsession of travelers? It is 2026. Just use your ATM card if you need cash. I probably have the same reais that I had 3 trips ago, because outside of paying chicks, I am using my Amex for everything. I even use it to pay people on the street who are selling nuts.

[The Cane]

I am not new to Brasil but had a situation this year where I accumulated a bit of cash. Legal of course. My thought was to bring just under 10,000 USD to Brasil on my next trip because I am planning to stay at least 3 months, convert it to reais as I needed it. I knew under 10 K was ok in the US. I decided to research and was shocked to learn that Brasil requires you to declare cash above 10,000 reais when entering the country. This is cumulation of all cash and travelers checks etc. I know I have had more than that with me on several trips but if caught they can confiscate everything above the 10 K and fine you heavily! I guess I was lucky the times I went in with more cash on me. I would not worry about it but a friend who has been traveling there since 2005 has had customs pull him aside and go through his bags at least 4 times. If you declare it it is ok but you have to disclose the source of the cash and what it is for. Being for tourism etc. Is supposedly ok. What I have decided is to bring just under 10000 reais and use debit cards to withdraw cash from atms. With two debit cards from different banks I can withdraw 4000 reais per day. Anybody else have input or experiences with this?

This has been discussed several times before in these threads. When I started going to Brazil many, many moons ago, I used to travel with $10,000 dollars in cash and convert to reais as needed on the ground. I was never stopped, searched, questioned or anything. Maybe I was lucky, I don't know. And I did that many times. The thing is, why travel with that much cash on you if you don't need to? Now for the last decade at least, wherever I go in the world, I travel with a debit card and pull cash from ATMs as I need it. This works really great. I have access to cash without having so much on me at one time, and my preferred debit card (Schwab) refunds all ATM fees. As far as I'm concerned, this is the best way to go.

[WonderWhy]

I am not new to Brasil but had a situation this year where I accumulated a bit of cash. Legal of course. My thought was to bring just under 10,000 USD to Brasil on my next trip because I am planning to stay at least 3 months, convert it to reais as I needed it. I knew under 10 K was ok in the US. I decided to research and was shocked to learn that Brasil requires you to declare cash above 10,000 reais when entering the country. This is cumulation of all cash and travelers checks etc. I know I have had more than that with me on several trips but if caught they can confiscate everything above the 10 K and fine you heavily! I guess I was lucky the times I went in with more cash on me. I would not worry about it but a friend who has been traveling there since 2005 has had customs pull him aside and go through his bags at least 4 times. If you declare it it is ok but you have to disclose the source of the cash and what it is for. Being for tourism etc. Is supposedly ok.

What I have decided is to bring just under 10000 reais and use debit cards to withdraw cash from atms. With two debit cards from different banks I can withdraw 4000 reais per day.

Anybody else have input or experiences with this?

[WyattEarp]

Lula might still do something to try and win; Lula is a communist, he'll try to win no matter what.

Hopefully any ISG members who had some idealistic attachment to Lula, now understand the craziness.

If you have any Brazilian friends of any means, you will realize how much they hate Lula.

They're just use to corruption and incompetence.

[Nothingtodo]

Hi all, new form member here. I wanted to share my experience in Brazil, coming back after a couple years. I focused on the Northeast region because the weather is much better during the Florida summer period from June-September, when I'm able to travel. A couple years ago, I was in Jericoacoara and enjoyed it so I thought it would be a good idea to return there for my first stop.

Fortaleza I don't find to be a pleasant city at all. I had to fly in there to get to Jericoacoara, and the four hour plus drive was more of a hassle than I remembered last time. The first thing I noticed when I arrived in Jeri was that obesity seemed to be a bigger issue, and the majority of women I saw there were not fit. Cumbuco had many more attractive women, because there are more kitesurfers there and in order to practice that sport, you have to be really fit. Looking back on it, I would have rather just spent the weekend in Cumbuco at this place called Duro Beach Hotel. There isn't much of anything in the town, but that hotel was nice and had the best looking women, although a lot of them were probably foreigners.

I moved onto Pipa, which also had attractive girls, many foreigners, but I didn't like the atmosphere there at all. Many irritating "digital nomad" types. During this trip, I began picking up on the fact that most of the fit and attractive Brazilian girls tended to be tourists from places like Florianopolis, Rio or Sao Paulo. Generally I think the South has better looking women, which has been remarked on by others as well.

I went to Natal after that, which was horrible, I don't recommend it at all. Certainly I would say skip Natal and Fortaleza and if you're going to cities in the Northeast, stick with Salvador and Maceio. Maceio didn't have the best looking girls, but they were very interested in me being a white foreigner because there were barely any gringos there. Therefore it was much easier to pick up normal girls than the tourist places.

Rising obesity seems to be a real issue here and I noticed the places with the most attractive women (Cumbuco, Pipa), had more athletes and tourists from the South. I didn't return to Salvador this time but I wouldn't say it was a great mongering place, just an interesting city to visit because of the unique Afro-Brazilian culture.

On my way out I visited Canoa Quebrada, which I found horrible. Wouldn't recommend that place. Recife and Joao Pessoa can be skipped as well in my opinion.

[Pascoal2000]

Well, unfortunately for us, the Real seems to like that news. We'll see what happens in the run-off.

Lula might still do something to try and win; Lula is a communist, he'll try to win no matter what.

[Combo]

No second round needed, Bolsonaro is over 50% in the first round! Bolsonaro is back in office!

Free Jair!

Well, unfortunately for us, the Real seems to like that news. We'll see what happens in the run-off.

[Pascoal2000]

No second round needed, Bolsonaro is over 50% in the first round! Bolsonaro is back in office!

Free Jair!

It seems you made a mistake, there will be a second one.

[WyattEarp]

Written by brasilian, makes sense:

Brazil is a porn parody of a country.

Everything here is about fucking, it is incredible. Our entire sociology is just sex. Why is it is so important?

Because it is about the Portuguese fucking mixed women, from beginning to the end. We had the same economic model as the American deep south, except we had no **** white women to nag us around, so every man had a harem and fucking your way up was the norm. Portuguese fantasies about moor women turn into a fascination with kuruminhas, and the Indian women "would be curious" about the more soft-spoken and younger Portuguese sailors, and "disappear" with them in the woods for a while.

There is some Catholic chastity, but I think it is exists in small pockets of the middle and upper classes.

Having often hung out with my Brazilian male colleagues, I would not say the young women that they date are promiscuous. But adding on to what you posted, young affluent Brazilian women are very well of their sexual competition. My thesis is that sexual competition among women creates a more sexually open society.

Make of that what you will. You can flip my thesis. When there is strong sexual competition among men, young women have more control and the society is less open sexually.

I think I will stand by that last statement.

[Gatito Safado]

... Moroccan women are also among the best ....

Can you please tell more about those marrocan ladies? Are you talking about paid sex with them or about casual encounters? If frist. How does it work there in brief?

Maybe you come from a country where sex is overvalued. Price of a dinner sounds about right to me.

I remember having breakfast in Havana's Inglaterra hotel for 2000 pesos after spending a night with a teacher from remote village near Guantanamo, whose monthly salary was also 2000 pesos.

You can also eat in Rio's buffet a kilo for 60 reais and then go to cheap privee for 10 or 15 min session also for 60 reais.

[Kazeu]

I love Brazil but it's pretty weird when I can have an hour with a gorgeous 25 year old woman willing to really please me for less than I paid for my dinner the night before.

Maybe you come from a country where sex is overvalued. Price of a dinner sounds about right to me.

[ShooBree]

No second round needed, Bolsonaro is over 50% in the first round! Bolsonaro is back in office!

Free Jair!

[ShooBree]

Paraguayan women historically had very few inhibitions so it was even more of a fuckfest than Brazil (Just to extend our South America bibliography, I strongly recommend "At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig") Even polygamy was not unknown, especially after the "Great" War. And now? I don't particularly associate Paraguay with a monger destination, does anyone?

Brazil is for some reason in the league of its own. History and traditions might have something to do with it, but I'm sure there is more, LOL.

Brazil is a larger country with more tourism and I would guess that Brazil have more people with money and people without money. To have prostitution you need people with money able to pay for the services and girls willing to do it.

I love Brazil but it's pretty weird when I can have an hour with a gorgeous 25 year old woman willing to really please me for less than I paid for my dinner the night before.

Brazil is a country where people have low wages but it's still expensive to live. I think that all of these things together with what you and others have written before explains a lot.

I've had great experiences with Paraguayan ladies and they are at the top behind Brazilian ladies. Moroccan women are also among the best with Venezolanas as my number four pick.

[Xpartan]

Written by brasilian, makes sense:

Brazil is a porn parody of a country.

Everything here is about fucking, it is incredible. Our entire sociology is just sex. Why is it is so important?

Because it is about the Portuguese fucking mixed women, from beginning to the end. We had the same economic model as the American deep south, except we had no **** white women to nag us around, so every man had a harem and fucking your way up was the norm. Portuguese fantasies about moor women turn into a fascination with kuruminhas, and the Indian women "would be curious" about the more soft-spoken and younger Portuguese sailors, and "disappear" with them in the woods for a while.

Apparently, the Inquisition tribunal once visited Brazil, and got horrified because every man had a personal harem, and the entire country was a fuckfest pretending to be a sugar plantation. Sex is the only way Brazil could function, that while we were the most slaver nation on Earth, we are not a nation of 'former slaves and former masters', like the USA. We are a nation of fuckbuddies, and every new race that came in got dragged down into the degeneracy.

Paraguayan women historically had very few inhibitions so it was even more of a fuckfest than Brazil (Just to extend our South America bibliography, I strongly recommend "At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig") Even polygamy was not unknown, especially after the "Great" War. And now? I don't particularly associate Paraguay with a monger destination, does anyone?

Brazil is for some reason in the league of its own. History and traditions might have something to do with it, but I'm sure there is more, LOL.

[Gatito Safado]

Get a good edition of 'Brazil: A country of the future' by Stefan Zweig. (don't buy Amazon's print). The book won't bring you onto the present but covers the past very well.

I appreciate the book advice. It really makes me think that we are a league of educated, sophisticated and distinguished gentlemen here. And not a bunch of dudes obsessed with sex LOL.

In my turn I can recommend a movie "Donna Flor and two her husbands", by the book of Jorge Amado.

I don't see that as a problem today. Seriously. I am not talking about mongering. I truly think Brazilians are one of the most happiest nation in the world. Great food. Fruits. Beaches. Sun. And yes, a lot of sex. Seriously, what's wrong with that? - Keep on enjoying in life.

The ranting was from Brazilian person. He was complaining that because of fact that the only thing that works well in Brazil is sex --they can't have other nice things. I saw a lot of comments in the past saying that the nature is perfect, people are very nice, cuisine, music etc are amazing. But for some reason all together it is a stupid unorganized shithole, or so called "huehuehue state". Sorry for internet meme.

I can vouch for that. The more you discover a real life in Brazil, not tourist side, the more stupid shit you see. I even wanted to call my report "An upside down door hook". This was a small plastic hook on a bathroom door that I saw in privee in Manaus. It was screwed to the door, but upside down. Do they have bathroom in privee? Yes. Do they have door? Yes. Do they have door hook? Yes. Can you use it to hang a towel? No. This is Brazil in a nutshell.

On the other side all comments from people from other countries like sex-prison (USA) and frozen bumblefuck (Finland) were exactly like yours. "What's the problem with a sex-driven society? I agree with this approach as well. I would like to live in beforementioned Brazil of Jorge Amado, not in feminazi choking by uncontrolled migration modern Canada.