Many tourists choose to embark on long boat trips along the Amazon as part of their Amazon experience. They can range from a couple of days to more than a week. For them, Lonely Planet’s tips for Amazon riverboat trips will be quite useful. Long boat trips along the Amazon are not really our cup [...]
It is not the first time we bring to the blog spectacular photos found across the internet (a few weeks ago we saw virtual walkthroughs: Jericoacoara, Morro de São Paulo, Paraty, Porto de Galinhas and Rio de Janeiro and 360-degree photos of Manaus and the BR-319 across the jungle). Today’s selection deserve special attention both [...]
Two features in the press have focused on a recent Rio phenomenon: the high occupancy rates of its hotels (you can read the notes in Portuguese at Cheios o ano todo, hotéis do Rio não sabem mais o que é baixa temporada and Com indústria e Copa, turismo de negócios supera o de lazer). Rio’s [...]
Quite often one senses a feeling of frustration in the tales of those travellers who are returning from the Amazon – the ellusive wildlife of the region being the reason for that feeling. After all, they probably thought, if the Amazon is one of the regions of the planet with the richest biodiversity it shouldn’t [...]
There are no tickets left for the giant music festival that will take place in Rio in September (the 2011 edition of the Rock in Rio festival will take place… in Rio de Janeiro!). We are told that four days it was all that it took for the 600,000 tickets to be sold out ( [...]
