Join with the Friendship Force of Metro Vancouver on their journey to Brazil!
📅 When: Nov 1-8 in Campinas /November 12-19 in Belem 💺 Spots Available: 3 💰 Cost:US$350 (FFI fee) + host club's program fee - around $425 -450 each club
Campinas – Itinerary Highlights:
Bosque dos Jequitibás – The city's oldest park, with giant native trees and a small zoo.
Mercado Municipal – Local cheeses, tropical fruits, and the famous oversized sandwiches.
Holambra – A Dutch-founded flower town with windmills and tulip fields, one hour away.
Historic Downtown – The Metropolitan Cathedral, built with whale oil in the mortar.
Belém – Itinerary Highlights:
Ver-o-Peso Market – The largest open-air market in the Amazon: river fish, healing herbs, and fruits you've never seen.
Estação das Docas – Riverside warehouses turned into restaurants and craft shops, best at sunset.
Theatro da Paz – A grand opera house built with rubber-boom fortunes.
Mangal das Garças – A riverside park of herons, butterflies, and a tower with views over the bay.
Basílica de Nazaré – Home of the Círio, one of the largest religious processions on earth.
Amazonian Flavours – Taste tacacá, pato no tucupi, and açaí the way locals eat it — with fish.
Adventurous spirit? Love of nature, markets, and flavours you've never tasted? Then this journey ☕🛶 might be for you! Join us in Brazil — walk among giant jequitibá trees in Campinas, tour a historic coffee fazenda, explore the vast Ver-o-Peso market in Belém, and boat to a river island where families harvest açaí. Two cities, one unforgettable adventure. 💛
To apply and view Journey Coordinator details, please log in to your member account on my.friendshipforce.org.
