7. Lençóis Maranhenses This national park on the north-eastern coast of Brazil is not the easiest to reach, but it’s definitely worth the effort. Its huge white sand dunes, in contrast with ...

A vast blanket of white sand overlooking the Brazilian city Salvador became a flashpoint after City Hall began building a plaza at the dune’s base with bathrooms and a welcome center, and soon ...

Brazil's Lencois Maranhenses National Park, famed for its white dunes that fill with blue and emerald lagoons in the rainy season, was on Friday declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Visit Brazil’s northeast coast and a tree that has become a major tourist attraction. Long stretches of Brazil’s northeast coast are lined with sand dunes, some of them so vast that they ...

This is what’s been happening in Camaçari, Bahia [a large area of sand dunes in northeast Brazil and hotspot for sand trafficking] where they arrive at the site and grab whatever they can before ...

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — The vast blanket of white sand overlooking Salvador is a place to escape rumbling traffic, pinging phones and crying children. A space to find solitude and, increasingly ...

(AP) — Afro Brazilian religious groups see a public works project at the Abaete dunes as an attempt to Christianize yet another public space, part of evangelicals’ rising influence in the ...