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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A fascinating and energetic mix of the traditional and the very modern, Bangkok is a microcosm of Thailand and an endlessly diverting introduction to this fascinating country. The intoxicating sights and sounds of Bangkok are all around you when you stay at one of our hotels in Bangkok.
You’re never short of things to see or do in London. From theatre, musicals and museums to shopping, urban greenery and sheer monumentality, London does it bigger and better, and if you need a place to stay in the nation’s capital, Marriott has London hotels to suit you.
New York is on everyone’s travel wish-list, and if you’re looking for a place to stay when you visit the Big Apple, Marriott has dozens of New York hotels all across the city and beyond. If New York is your destination, book your New York hotel online with Marriott.
In the middle of the Nevada desert, neon-lit Las Vegas is a city like no other, and when you book your stay at one of Marriott's Las Vegas hotels, you can enjoy the full, glitzy spectacle of this 24-hour city.
From Monterrey to Cancun, you can be sure of a warm welcome and first-class service when you stay at one of Marriott's Mexico hotels. The historic home of the Aztecs, chocolate and tequila, Mexico is a vast and diverse country with something for everyone.
Travel Insurance
People take varied holidays these days, so we've created a choice of travel insurance to help you get great value and cover for whatever you've got planned.
Single Trip Travel Insurance
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Emergencies
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Golf Cover
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Winter Sports Cover
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