When is the best time of the year to visit the Amazon region? At “cheia” and “seca” on the Amazon region we saw how the changing levels of the Amazon river and its tributaries creates two different landscapes along the year. Though we feel any time of the year is valid for a trip to [...]
Over the last months I have received repeated requests for the publication of guest posts at the Brazil Travel Blog. While I had never dismissed the possibility of having such posts at the blog, it is something I hadn’t actively pursued either. By publishing some basic guidelines I hope will clarify all issues related to [...]
How cheap can a trip to Fernando de Noronha get? Our friend Daniel assumed the challenge and has just returned from five days at paradise. The total cost of the trip: R$900. Here’s how he did it. ———————————————————— 1. Expense: plane ticket Money spent: R$23.75 How he did it: the only low-cost alternative of reaching [...]
Life on the Amazon region is altered to a great extent by one single factor: the water levels of the Amazon river and its numerous tributaries. Water levels provoke profound transformations on the landscape and the way of living of natives of the region. This alternation between the cheia –the flooding season, and the seca [...]
The results of a recent survey on what foreign tourists feel about Rio de Janeiro have just been released. 800 foreign tourist where surveyed during the month of July as part of a project coordinated by professors Bayard Boiteux and Maurício Werner, from UniverCidade. They are two specialists on the subject whose analyses reach the [...]
