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links: Porto Belo

To make up for the absence on this blog of a specific destination card devoted to Porto Belo, I am publishing a blog entry with links to sites of interest.
PORTALS
There is one portal with complete information on Porto Belo: Porto Belo online. You can also check out the section with tourist information on [...]

7 full (and free!) tourist guides on Brazil available online

Publishing house Empresa das Artes, with an extense travel-related catalogue, is enabling free online access to the full contents of several of its guides. To read the guides you need to access the tool provided by Book Stand Panrotas.
The available guides are:
Amazonas
Bahia
Goiás
Mato Grosso
Pará
Paraná
Santa Catarina
To open each guide, click on CLIQUE para ler esta publicação. A [...]

Oktoberfest in Blumenau

For the European tourist arriving in Brazil, attending the Oktoberfest in Blumenau, state of Santa Catarina, won’t probably rank high among its priorities. After all, they have the real McCoy less than a couple of hour’s away from most European airports. German beer is not an item that populates the imagination of the visitor when [...]

ultra high-resolution satellite photos of Brazil

The latest update to the satellite images used by Google in Google Earth and Google Maps brought maximum resolution to existing coverage for at least three important tourist destinations in Brazil: Florianópolis, Salvador and São Paulo. As well as the cities of Brasilia and Goiania.
These ultra high-resolution images show an spectacular level of detail.
1. Florianópolis
The [...]

pizzaria Nave Mãe, Florianópolis

One night in Florianópolis we went out for a pizza. We had driven by the Nave Mãe pizza parlour a few days earlier and decided we would give it a go. Only later we discovered it is one of the Florianópolis haunts of local celeb and national heroe Gustavo Kuerten (tennis player). The pizzaria is [...]