Trem do Corcovado is the company the operates the train service taking tourists to the top of the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro. The company has plans to give Rio a new tourist attraction – in a city that is certainly not devoid of fascinating places. The company wants to build a big wheel [...]
If you’ve been reading us for a while you’re probably aware by now that we are big fans of Google Maps and its use to support travel planning (we talked about it at GoogleMaps on the Brazil Travel Blog). Google has just added a new weather layer to its Google Maps (you can read the [...]
Google’s Street View mapping facility has been available for a score of Brazilian cities for quite some time now (we have details of the arrival of the service at our blog post Google’s Street View has landed in Brazil). The news is that Google is now taking its cameras to an unexpected destination: the Amazon [...]
The Brazil Travel Blog has been five years on the road and during that time we’ve devoted plenty of attention to the Amazon region. It is a part of Brazil as coveted by foreign tourists as devoid of reliable and independent travel information. This is a summary of what we have published on the region [...]
I recently came across some data from Embratur that caused me quite a lot of surprise (accesible through edition 972 of Jornal Panrotas). The first surprise was to learn that only 7,5% of foreign tourists arriving in Brazil visit the northeast states of Brazil. I was expecting a much higher figure. The second surprise was [...]
