Archive for August, 2009

The Brazil Travel Blog brings you every month a calendar for you to use on your computer desktop. In September we enjoy a view from the air of the city of Salvador de Bahia. DOWNLOAD: – Large size – Small size Remember, a new calendar every month! subscribe to the Brazil Travel Blog by Email [...]

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[This post is part of a series devoted to tourism in five remote Brazilian states - the other entries include Amapá, Rondonia, Roraima and Tocantins.] Acre is on the westernmost part of Brazil, bordering with the state of Amazonas to the north and with Peru and Bolivia to the south. It is one of the [...]

For the European tourist arriving in Brazil, attending the Oktoberfest in Blumenau, state of Santa Catarina, won’t probably rank high among its priorities. After all, they have the real McCoy less than a couple of hour’s away from most European airports. German beer is not an item that populates the imagination of the visitor when [...]

Hidden somewhere at the Brasil Network website – the Ministry of Tourism tool for travel professionals, there is a little gem: the Brazil Diving Guide. It’s a 42-page booklet on PDF format with a wealth of information on diving in Brazil. Diving sites, shipwrecks, wildlife. The whole lot. The copy borders on the reckless at [...]

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The cities that will host the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil have been chosen. They are Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaos, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. It is almost certain that the World Cup final will take place at the Maracanã stadium in Rio. São Paulo [...]