SALVADOR, Brazil -- 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, God.

A world-famous carnival, glorious beaches, legendary football players and beautiful, friendly people. Brazil’s reputation precedes itself, with millions of tourists every year choosing to visit the ...

(FILES) A member of a team taking part in the Elf Authentique Aventure raid crosses the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil, on April 25, 2000. The Lençóis ...

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 create their ...

Jericoacoara, located in Ceará, northeastern Brazil, is a protected coastal region known for its vast sand dunes, seasonal ...

“The yacht’s design harmonizes the sleek and precise lines of the water’s surface with the sinuous contours of the sand dunes,” designers Timothy Baldacci and Veronica Vergari said in a statement.

Mag Oliveira embraces her daughter Najla as they pray in an area of the Abaete dune system, on a steep rise of sand evangelicals have come to call the "Holy Mountain", in Salvador, Brazil, late Friday ...

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. The vast park, ...

(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 country’s ...