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'''Brazil''' is a country in [[South America]]. It has a border with every country on the continent except [[Chile]] and [[Ecuador]]. Brazil is a huge country and [[hitchhiking]] depends a lot on the area as to how receptive people will be and your chances in getting rides. Some Brazilians consider their country violent and dangerous , in part due to the media's love of seizing stories and exaggerating them.  == Hitchhiking == In Brazil, hitchhiking is referred to seize on as ''pegar uma carona'', taking a ride. On roadsides, care must be taken because of the erratic ways of Brazilian motorists. Many use the slip lanes to overtake traffic or swerve to allow others past.  === Tax offices ===One of the stories best things about Brazil are the truck tax offices (Postos fiscales). These are buildings along a highway, usually in a city or town, but sometimes along the route. Truckers who use that route generally have to stop and get their papers stamped at a window. The staff are generally hitchhiker-friendly, so you can stand outside the window with a sign or ask the drivers for rides.  === Gas Stations ===You can get rides easily by asking drivers at [[Gas stations]] (Postos ...). Attendants are usually friendly and exaggerate let you sleep behind them. In the north, they tend to have free coffee and showers too!

Brazil needs to be taken with caution but hitchhiking is doable in every area except within greater [[São Paulo]], as you are over shadowed due to overshadowed by the volumes of traffic. On roadsides, care must be taken because of the erratic ways of Brazilian Motorists. Many use the slip lanes to overtake traffic or swerve to allow others past. Areas like the Amazon and Pantanal backlands are much easier when asking on road sides and at [[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol stations]]. Areas where there is purely the one national highway make life easier for reaching intended destination. Put your mind to it and its very possible to cover a little over 300 kilometer daily or more depending on area. North East may be trickier as there are less cars and peoples fear of Bandidos but when you get someone they will be talkative and friendly.

== Maps ==In the south (Rio Grande Do Sul) drivers hardly stop on the roadside if you are only using your thumb (even if it seems to be a perfect hitching spot). [[FileUser:Brazil highways.jpgBalazs|thumb|300pxBalazs]][http://www.br.map24.com/ map24] is would suggest to always use a useful online route planner for Brazil and sign on roadsides (but generally, don't hitch there, try as hard as possible to get to the rest of South Americapetrol stations. [http://www).guiamais.com.br/ruas GuiaMais] is another great website with maps At the stations, he was almost always taken if the driver was going in his direction and route planning for Brazil onlythe car was not full.

== Sleep ==If you look foreigner you might consider go to a hostel or CouchSurf. There Note that vehicles license plates are lots of homeless crackheads in major cities these daysdifferent, depending on where the car was issued. In rural areas, if you say you have nowhere to stay they will often offer you a spot in their house and good hearty Brazilian food (which is often rice, beans and corn porridge in some areas, or roasted cassava flour to eat It starts with the beans, very energetic state abbreviation and delicious, and sometimes chicken or meat - if follows with numbers. This way you are a vegetarian say you don't like meat, if you just say you don't want they will think you're shy and put on your plate anyways, and if you don't want can also somehow figure out where the food say you are very full and they will stop insisting)vehicle is going to. Small villages are great for camping and rarely police will bug you, unless it Usually the name of the state is a touristic city. Avoid setting up a tent written in big citiessmall letters at the top, if you got no dime and no concealed spot sleep in bus stations or open airbut this is harder to see. {|class="wikitable"|-! Abbr! State! Abbr! State! Abbr! State|-|AC|[[Acre]]|MA|[[Maranhão]]|RJ|[[Rio de Janeiro]]|-|AL|[[Alagoas]]|MG|[[Minas Gerais]]|RN|[[Rio Grande do Norte]]|-|AM|[[Amazonas]]|MS|[[Mato Grosso do Sul]]|RO|[[Rondônia]]|-|AP|[[Amapá]]|MT|[[Mato Grosso]]|RR|[[Roraima]]|-|BA|[[Bahia]]|PA|[[Pará]]|RS|[[Rio Grande do Sul]]|-|CE|[[Ceará]]|PB|[[Paraíba]]|SC|[[Santa Catarina]]|-|DF|[[Distrito Federal]]|PE|[[Pernambuco]]|SE|[[Sergipe]]|-|ES|[[Espírito Santo]]|PI|[[Piauí]]|SP|[[São Paolo]]|-|GO|[[Goiás]]|PR|[[Paraná]]|TO|[[Tocantins]]|}

=== Cities ===

* [[São LuizLuis]]

* ''[https://warmroads.de/en/hitchhiking-in-7-brazil/ Short anlyses of hitchhiking in Brazil - warmroads.]* ''If you are friendly and avoid drunk drives, along with avoid showing that you have valuable things you will be fine. Once it got dark with me on the roadside with nothing close by, and people took some time to give me a ride. When the car stopped it was with 4 somewhat drunk guys with loud music. I felt it was going to be okay so I went with them (keep in mind it is a tiny city!) and nothing happened, not even sex proposals. In a couple of occasions there was unauthorized groping, but a firm yet polite response kept them from trying anything else. In some days there was a lot of sex proposals, some even offering money. They insist once or twice but when they see there is no chance they will (at least in my experience) respect you. Twice truck drivers that kept insisting heard from me a "so let me get down anywhere, I am not hitchhiking for that". Well, they said "ok, sorry, no need to get down, I am not going to insist anymore". With one of them we even changed subject and got quite a nice conversation. Most, a least for Portuguese speakers, just start talking about themselves and their personal life. One of them even let me sleep on his truck while he went home. They often offer to buy meals at barbecue diners in roadsites, with rice, bean, meat, salad and possible other options (I often just drink an orange juice, since I am a raw foodist and take food with me all the time, like nuts and specially bananas - this one is a good idea for cheap energetic food, which often you can get for free in small markets if they are overripe, if you ask the price it will often be half or free. I lived on bananas and avocados for several days once before I was raw, not very fun but with a stronger kick than fast food...).'' -A personal story of a Brazilian 20 year old girl hitchhiking alone * ''I was hitchhiking during 3 months in Brazil both alone and with friends, it was easy in the tourist states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, in Parana I never waited more than 15 min...the only time I got stuck was 40 km from Sao Paulo in not so nice area with prostitutes, it was gettting dark and the drivers scared so close to the city but finally one car brought me to the bus station in few km from where I took the bus. The people are quite friendly and helpful despite the paranoia around and the main difficulty in the beginning was my poor Portuguese and being guided many times towards the bus station instead the road I needed to hh :)'' - Nadita, March 2014 * ''Something I learned as a woman hitchhiking through Brazil alone is that certain highways (I heard it was mostly on the BR 116, Rio-Salvador, for example) have women that are highway prostitutes that wait to be picked up on the side of the road. Traveling with truck drivers alone I also learned that many of them pick up hitchhikers that also become lovers, mostly locals from smaller towns who wait on the highways to leave town and go on an adventure. But it is usually easier to tell the difference between hitchhikers and women wanting rides for sex, and of course communication is important. I think it's important to know that these incidents are common because you understand where people are coming from when the subject arises. I never had problems with males drivers and truck drivers but I have definitely had them ask for sex, the program ("not even with a condom?" yuck...), what not. I think being clear with drivers before is important and making sure you feel safe is important too. But again, I hitched almost 5000 km alone in Brazil, no problem, it is incredibly liberating and easy! Go adventure! :)'' -[[User:Yayael|Yaya]] * User "[[User:Miriam|Miriam]] hitched around the south of Brazil for several weeks on her own in 2017 without running into major problems, met only super nice and friendly people, got rides easily and was never confused for a prostitute or treated without respect, as the above contributors sadly experienced. Two minor problems were: 1.) People automatically assuming hitchhikers are Argentinian and staying clear because of the rivalry between both countries (sadly). If you're a non-argentinian foreigner, consider carrying your country's flag! 2.) Lots and lots of traffic on giant, unstoppable highways. If possible, stick to nice and cozy interior roads which makes for amazing experiences on it's own! :)" ==Links==* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/233318683352416/ Caroneiros de beira de estrada - hitchhikers] FB group* [https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/viewer?mid=zp9crAsPGb2s.kP_S4APpoKLY Brazilian hitchhikers/tramps on the map]* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/caroneirosdebeiradeestrada Brazilian hitchhikers mailing list] *[[nomad:Brazil]]*[[trash:Brazil]]*[[visa:Brazil]]

If you are friendly and avoid drunk drives, along with avoid showing that you have valuable things you will be fine. Once it got dark with me on the roadside with nothing close by, and people took some time to give me a ride. When the car stopped it was with 4 somewhat drunk guys with loud music. I felt it was going to be okay so I went with them (keep in mind it is a tiny city!) and nothing happened, not even sex proposals. In a couple of occasions there was unauthorized groping, but a firm yet polite response kept them from trying anything else. In some days there was a lot of sex proposals, some even offering money. They insist once or twice but when they see there is no chance they will (at least in my experience) respect you. Twice truck drivers that kept insisting heard from me a "so let me get down anywhere, I am not hitchhiking for that". Well, they said "ok, sorry, no need to get down, I am not going to insist anymore". With one of them we even changed subject and got quite a nice conversation. Most, a least for Portuguese speakers, just start talking about themselves and their personal life. One of them even let me sleep on his truck while he went home. They often offer to buy meals at barbecue diners in roadsites, with rice, bean, meat, salad and possible other options (I often just drink an orange juice, since I am a raw foodist and take food with me all the time, like nuts and specially bananas - this one is a good idea for cheap energetic food, which often you can get for free in small markets if they are overripe, if you ask the price it will often be half or free. I lived on bananas and avocados for several days once before I was raw, not very fun but with a stronger kick than fast food...).[[trash:{{States Brazil]]}}