Brazil is so big that it could easily be considered to be a continent in itself. In surface, Brazil stands for half of South America. So, the focus of this report is on Southern Brazil, still a quarter of a continent. Not peanuts! Needless to say that only a number of highlights can be covered on this page: Rio de Janeiro, the whirling city where business is conducted on the beach and where famous football stars learn to play the game on the beach, the city which radiates the magic of its setting in bays caught between the Corcovado of the giant Cristo Redentor statue and the iconic Sugar Loaf mountain, but also the city of rich history of Portuguese colonisation and Brazilian imperial independence. After all, Rio was for two centuries the capital of the colony and independent Brazil and for a short while even of … Portugal itself! In 1960 the capital was moved to Brasília, right in the middle of nowhere, but an interesting experiment of modern architecture we keenly explore too. But not before we also pay tribute to one of South America's most impressing creations of nature: the Iguaçu waterfalls, their magnitude actually belittling the North American Niagara and the Southern African Victoria Falls, their beauty plainly overwhelming. And nature holds still more in store in this southern part of Brazil, because where else could you find such an astonishing concentration of jaguars living in the wild, as in the Pantanal reserve, along the Rio São Lourenço? Reasons enough to wet the appetite for a digital tour of southern Brazil!