Vinicius Alencar

Vinicius Alencar is the author of The Offbeat Map. He lives in São Paulo and has been to more than 50 countries.

In many of them, what stuck in his memory were the everyday details nobody explains: a rule that looks odd, an unusual schedule, a custom that only makes sense to locals. The Offbeat Map started from the wish to understand those details and share what he found.

He is not a tour guide or an expert on every country. So every article starts from research: law, official data and local press, with sources listed at the end of the text. The method is described in the Editorial policy.

Contact

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