National Geographic Traveler: Rio de Janeiro
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.