1. The situation As many of you are aware, the state of Pernambuco, administratively responsible for the idyllic Fernando de Noronha, charges a hefty environmental tax to all tourists arriving in the island. On the island’s official website several sections announce that you can save time on arrival to the island by “prepaying your environmental [...]
This is the second on a series of videos produced by the Brazilian tourism authorities. They all have a common theme: those states that will host 2014 World Cup games. During the coming weeks we will present all those videos here in the blog. They are shortish videos, with conventional but beautiful images of the [...]
You would need to be quite absent-minded to walk Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro and not notice the beautiful waves along the sidewalk formed by Portuguese mosaic (photograph above). In spite of its fame, Rio wasn’t the first Brazilian city where the mosaic was used. In 1900 Manaus imported from Lisbon what was at [...]
Desconto SP is a website set up by the São Paulo Convention & Visitors Bureau. Tourists can select from the multiple options offered at the site the vouchers that interest them and print them at home. There are discounts for bar and restaurants, shops, accommodation, car rental, museums, ecotourism agencies and them parks. Worth a [...]
São Paulo Destino / Destination is a map produced by the local authorities of São Paulo. The problem of a substantial number of maps of São Paulo is that they try to incorporate in a single map all the information about the immense city. The result is often unsatisfactory. The map I am recommending today [...]
