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 [...]
We have just completed uploading our extense Flickr album devoted to Alter do Chão and the Amazon jungle. We visited the village of Alter do Chão in the midst of World Cup fever. And reached the beaches that gave Alter do Chão worldwide fame. In June the Tapajós river is still covering most beaches. On [...]
After a long pilgrimage through faraway lands, the Rock in Rio festival returns home. It has just been announced that the 2011 edition of the festival will take place in Rio de Janeiro, during two weekends at the end of September and beginning of October. The event will take place in the Barra da Tijuca [...]
We have just completed uploading our extense Flickr albums devoted to Curitiba and to Morretes and the Paranagua railway journey. The fantastic Museu Niemeyer gets special attention in the album. The delightful silhouettes of the greenhouse at the Botanic Gardens also feature prominently. Traces of European colonization can be seen at the Bosque Alemão and [...]
Affordable accommodation in Brasilia is not easy to find. You can search for hotels in Brasilia through our Hotels Combined search engine, a unique free tool that searches multiple hotel reservation websites simultaneously to help you find the lowest rate instantly. It eliminates the need to search major websites one by one in order to [...]
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