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Brasil 360° Experience – panoramic videos of Brazil

Tony — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:43:43 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2011/12/19/brasil-360%c2%b0-experience-panoramic-videos-of-brazil/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

The Brazilian tourism authorities recently launched the website Brasil 360° Experience, with versions in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

While most travelers are familiar with panoramic and 360° photos, 360° videos will be a novelty for many. As the image moves, the viewer can change the angle of vision and point the camera in whichever direction he chooses. It is a technology that produces surprising and fascinating results. Brasil 360° Experience aims at surprising the views with moving images of a handful of Brazilian tourist destinations.

The website contains videos of Rio de Janeiro, Cuiabá and the Pantanal, Curitiba and Foz de Iguazú, Manaos and the Amazon and Salvador de Bahía.

The page contains a link “Know more about…” that takes the reader to the Brazilian Tourism Portal, a true liability for the promotion of Brazil as a tourist destination. At the portal, when the tourist tries to find out more information about, say, tourist attractions in Rio de Janeiro, he or she will find the following screen:

Worry not. If you want more info on the destinations covered by the new website, you can check our very own entries for those destinations:

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the weather in Google Maps – for Brazil and the rest of the world

Tony — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:18:25 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2011/08/22/the-weather-in-google-maps-for-brazil-and-the-rest-of-the-world/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

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 official announcement at Rain or Shine, see the weather on Google Maps).

If you enter Google Maps and go to the widget on the top right corner where you select the different view modes (Map, Earth, Traffic, Photos and so on) you will see there is a new layer called “Weather”. If you select it, you will see weather-related symbols appearing on your map. We’ll be using Rio de Janeiro as our example:

If you click on the symbol next to Rio (sun and cloud) you will see a pop up window with the forecast for the coming days (as my settings for the Google Apps are in Spanish I’m seeing the info in Spanish, you will see it in English).

If you click on 10 days you will get yet more weather information.

São Paulo traffic images live on the Internet

Tony — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:19:10 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2011/03/23/sao-paulo-traffic-images-live-on-the-internet/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

Those wanting to have a look at the state of São Paulo traffic have the chance to do so through Globo’s TV network Trânsito de São Paulo Ao Vivo website. It consists on a live stream of traffic images coming from strategic points of the city. You have no control over the camera you are watching, you need to wait patiently till the camera jumps to the next location.

Press play on the video player below to watch the live stream.

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Rio Grande do Sul road maps – for free download

Tony — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:21:06 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2011/03/17/rio-grande-do-sul-road-maps-for-free-download/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

The website of the Secretaria de Turismo de Rio Grande do Sul (the tourism authority for the state of Rio Grande do Sul) contains a section where users can download road maps. The download link is here and the maps are available in jpeg and pdf format.

As usual in the case of tourist information in Brazil, the page is in Portuguese only. Brazil needs to get their act together when it comes to travel information in languages other than Portuguese if it ever wants to increase the scarce number of foreign tourists that visit the country.

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360-degree photos of Manaus and the BR-319 across the jungle

Tony — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:22:53 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/11/09/360-degree-photos-of-manaus-and-the-br-319-across-the-jungle/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

Whether you have the time or the money to visit the Amazon, you can have a fascinating look at Manaus and the jungle from the comfort of your own airmchair. At the Globo Amazônia website you will find 360-degree photos taken along the route BR-319 linking Manaus and Porto Velho.

On the top half of the page, the photo. On the bottom half, the map of the region where the photos are geolocated.

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World touristiness map

Tony — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:37:23 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/06/28/world-touristiness-map/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

The World touristiness map is a map project that analyzed the number of Panoramio photos for every spot on the world and turned the density of photos into colour shades. Yellow shows where the highest concentration of photos is, red highlights a medium concentration and blue a low concentration. Areas in grey have no photos available.

On the global map the standing fact is the central role of Europe. On the South American continent, a high concentration of photos can be guessed in the south east region of Brazil.

When you look closer at the map of Brazil you confirm the high concentration of photos for the south east region (mainly Rio and São Paulo) and also along most of the country’s coast. No surprises when you realize most of the Amazon region is unphotographed.

If you are after an undiscovered destination, you might as well search for it using this map!

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CDC: reliable health information for travelers to Brazil

Tony — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:53:25 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/05/24/cdc-reliable-health-information-for-travelers-to-brazil/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

Even if you are not an American citizen, the US government’s CDC website should be your starting point for any consultation on health issues related to your upcoming trip to Brazil. You will find the information under the section Health Information for Brazil.

It contains thorough, reliable and up-to-date information on all health issues, including a section on vaccines and another section on items you might want to bring with you on your trip.

Whenever a new fact emerges the CDC releases a travel notice. On the last few days there have been notices on yellow fever, dengue, H1N1 flu and measles.

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Rio de Janeiro’s Michelin guide for free

Tony — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:58:16 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/05/17/rio-de-janeiros-michelin-guide-for-free/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

The entire Michelin guide for Rio de Janeiro is available for free consultation at the following link on Google Books. Plenty of worthy information and details to help you plan your visit to the city of Rio.

At the Books on Brazil section of this blog you can check the details of other printed guides with focus on Brazil.

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Facebook and Twitter at our acommodation listings

Tony — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:42:33 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/04/16/facebook-and-twitter-at-our-acommodation-listings/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

In recognition of the growing importance of Facebook and Twitter, we will be adding to our accommodation listings in Accommodation in Brazil (as well as in Alojamiento en Brasil and Hospedagem no Brasil) the web addresses of Facebook pages and Twitter profiles of hotels and pousadas.

If you own a hotel or pousada and have a Facebook page or Twitter profile, let us know so we can add it to the listings (contact). For the time being we can only add the information if we have a listing for the city or town where your establishment is located.

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Linhas Rodoviárias, a site with bus travel information

Tony — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:36:47 +0000

Copyright © 2010 Tony Gálvez. Read the original at http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/02/08/linhas-rodoviarias-a-site-with-bus-travel-information/. If you find this text at a location other than the Brazil Travel Blog it is an unauthorized use of the blog material.

Linhas rodoviárias is a new website with information on travel routes around Brazil. It is quite easy to use. For the time being, it only contains information on both domestic and international routes departing from São Paulo.

Busque seu destino! is your search window. ORIGEM (origin) has São Paulo selected as a default (you can’t change it). At DESTINO (destination) you have to select the state or country you are travelling to and at CIDADE (city, town) the name of your destination.

The interesting thing about this website is that the search results shows not only the details of the company or companies (empresa) travelling the route. You will also find the schedules (horários de embarque), fares (preço da passagem), duration of the trip (tempo de viagem), distance (distância em kilómetros), number of stops (previsão de paradas) and the number of the ticket office (guichê de venda) at the bus station where you will be able to purchase tickets.

We take the system is fed manually with all the data coming from multiple sources. We don’t know how often the information is updated. For that reason, we encourage you to use this website as a starting point on your research. But double-check any information with the bus company you will be travelling with.

We hope new departure cities will be fed into the system soon. When that happens we’ll promptly let you know here.

Our main blog entry on bus travel in Brazil is bus transportation in Brazil.

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