On 10 facts about dengue fever in Brazil, our main entry devoted to dengue fever on this blog, we explained how the dengue epidemic coincides with the rainy season. What with the rainy season well under way, dengue is back to the headlines: Risco de dengue deixa em estado de alerta 17 capitais, diz ministério. [...]
Welcome to the Brazil Travel Blog and our special report on the São Paulo Indy 300 race. ————————————————— 1. THE DATES The São Paulo Indy 300 race will be held on Sunday 14 March 2010 (training sessions on the previous day). There is a full schedule of events at the race’s official website. ————————————————— 2. [...]
São Paulo’s tourism authorities have launched the LGBT guide, a subsection under the city’s official website. It’s got an English version. The guide contains maps and information on accommmodation, shopping, food and fun in São Paulo. As well as the online guide, you can download a PDF guide here. It is a bilingual Portuguese/English edition. [...]
I have recently launched a new project, Hospedagem no Brasil, the Portuguese-language companion to Accommodation in Brazil and Alojamiento en Brasil, our projects in English and Spanish respectively. These are times when the url of a hotel has become a commodity (Trip Advisor is charging hotel owners a fee if they want their url to [...]
1. Jungle Lodges in the Amazon are for rich foreign tourists. The name itself used by many hotels, “Jungle Lodge”, in English, says it all. Most jungle hotels cater for the foreign English-speaking crowd and quote their services in dollars or euros. Reaching Manaus and staying at a jungle lodge is not within the reach [...]
