Another piece of news coming from Iguazu. I’ve just read in La Voz de las Cataratas (in Spanish) that a group of self-appointed religious leaders from Foz de Iguazú want to change the name to the Devil’s Throat, the most impressive of all the falls at Iguazú. Among the arguments for the change (if you [...]
From 1 June visitors will have to pay R$15 to do the basic tour round the Itaipu dam, near Foz do Iguaçu. Up until now, the visit was free. Notas do Turismo contains the information with a link to a detailed press release by the management of Itaipu detailing the different types of visits to [...]
I don’t know who is behind the World Travel Awards, but the prestige that comes along with a media partner such as the BBC is seriously damaged by some of the errors contained in the list of nominees. At least in the Latin America section, I wonder whether the treatment given to other parts of [...]
Along the roads in Bonito, in the southernmost part of the Pantanal, cattle travel in search of new pastures. Now is the right season to move, as the level of the rivers is low enough to travel. I took this picture with my first digital camera, a 1.2 megapixels Sony camera. subscribe to the Brazil [...]
NAME: porto Preguiças Resort WHERE: Barreirinhas, Maranhão WEBSITE: www.portopreguicas.com.br IN ENGLISH: no PRICES ON THE WEBSITE: no LOCATION: on an isolated field, 1 km away from Barreirinhas. Both the bus coming from São Luís and all the local tourist operators go to the resort. THE BUILDING: set in the middle of a carnaúba wood, on [...]
