The Association of Rio de Janeiro’s Escolas de Samba (LIESA) has announced the prices for the carnival parades at the Sambadrome: at ingressos Carnaval 2011 you will find the prices for the differenty types of seats and locations within the sambadrome. At the same website you can see a map of the venue at Sambadrome [...]
Beautiful Fernando de Noronha, in its never-ending reach for the tourist’s pocket, is preparing a new fee to be demanded from all tourists arriving to the island from the end of February 2011. What with the care of the National Park gone to a private company (the same company that takes care of the Iguaçu [...]
This is the fourth 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 [...]
Riotur is the official tourism agency for the city of Rio de Janeiro. At its information-packed website (we reviewed it here at the blog at the new official Rio Guide) you will find a very interesting text entitled Rio in 48 hours – The best of Rio in two days. The text contains a very [...]
Few of those interested in Brazil will be unaware of the massive tragedy hitting regions of the state of Rio de Janeiro: Brazil floods: More than 500 dead. Here’s our straightforward travel advice: if you were planning on visiting the affected area, namely the cities of Nova Friburgo, Petrópolis or Teresópolis you are adviced to [...]
