Event Guide:world Cup 2014
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What's Germany Good at Besides Soccer? Lots of Things!
After 10 years of hard work, and 24 years since a previous win, Germany is once again the soccer “Weltmeister” (world champion). From sausage to beer, movies to fashion, here’s where Germany is good — nay, great! — and the undeclared world champion in many areas besides soccer. Germans and movies go way back to Marlene Dietrich.
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WATCH: The World Cup Winner? These Elephants Tried to Guess!
Back in 2010, Germany’s Paul the Octopus — the spot-on tentacled creature who could predict World Cup results — met his untimely death. Since then, a number of psychic animals have been competing for the throne of World Cup oracle, from the Arabian camel Shaheen to Bob the two-toed sloth at the Toronto Zoo. Here at Yahoo Travel, our money is on Denla, a baby elephant at Chiang Rai’s Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort in northern Thailand, where travelers can get up close and person
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WATCH: The Flavors of Brazil. We're Eating Up the World Cup!
The World Cup is wrapping up, but it’s leaving us hungry for more — especially the flavors of this amazing country. Here, Yahoo takes a look at the famous and historic foods and drinks of the culinary melting pot that is Brazil. We’ve got the inside scoop on where to get the best caipirinhas — at Rio’s Bar do Mineiro — to feijoada, which puts American chili to shame. São Paulo’s legendary Bolinha is the place to sample the dish, and — fun fact — feijoada is served to celebrate soccer victories.
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Ouro Preto: Step Into a Time Warp at Brazil's First World Heritage Site
Last week during our World Cup tour, we toured one of the places Brazilians like to go on vacation: Ouro Preto, an adorable old mining town largely preserved since its heyday in the 17th to 19th centuries. Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage site (Brazil’s first), the town is full of old Baroque churches, touristy shops, and tile-roofed houses that blanket all but the very steepest of hillsides. Tucked into the mountains about 300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, Ouro Preto (“black gold”) was
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Sweepstakes: Win a Dream Trip of a Lifetime to Brazil!
Christ the Redeemer, overlooking Rio. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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24 Hours of Sightseeing in Rio … We Did it All in One Day
While Rio has its issues — as stories about the run-up to the World Cup and the 2016 summer Olympics have amply pointed out — you really can’t go to Brazil without visiting its most storied city. Brazil is a big country, but one of the best things about it is its well-developed airline transportation. You could get from Belo Horizonte (our base in Brazil) to Rio in eight white-knuckle hours careening along potholed streets filled with crazy drivers all going different speeds, or you could clim
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Forget Soccer: In Brazil for the World Cup, Our Writer's Day Was Made by the Locals
After lots of worries before the World Cup and a difficult time getting to Brazil, I was starting to wonder if this trip was a bad idea. Brazil is prettier than advertised, as far as I can tell from the city of Belo Horizonte, where I landed just in time for Saturday’s Colombia-Greece match.
