National Geographic Traveler: Brazil

BILL HINCHBERGER lived in Brazil for more than two decades. He worked as a correspondent forFinancial Times, Business Week, ARTnews, Advertising Age, Variety, and other publications, and served four years as president of the São Paulo Foreign Press Club. His work has also appeared in numerous publications, and he has contributed to several books. MICHAEL SOMMERS has lived and worked in Brazil as a journalist for nearly 15 years, in the country's original capital of Salvador, Bahia. As a writer and photographer, he has contributed travel articles to the New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and theInternational Herald Tribune. He is the author of the guidebooks Moon Brazil and Moon Rio. MICHAEL SOMMERS has lived and worked in Brazil as a journalist for nearly 15 years, in the country's original capital of Salvador, Bahia. As a writer and photographer, he has contributed travel articles to theNew York Times, The Globe and Mail, and the International Herald Tribune. He is the author of the guidebooks Moon Brazil and Moon Rio and his ongoing dispatches from Brazil appear on his blog at www.moon.com/blogs/brazil.