Banks open from 10 am till 4 pm, Monday to Friday. Long queues are an essential part of life in Brazil. However, at the beginning of the month, queues at the banks reach gigantic proportions. Some ATMs swallow completely the card when inserted. In others, the card won’t go the whole way in, the user [...]

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The Brazilian currency is the real (its symbol, R$). Only banks from neighbouring countries will exchange reales. You are advised to take dollars or euros with you. If coming from Europe, there is no need to exchange euros into dollars. Euros ares as easy to exchange as dollars. Traveller’s cheques are not an interesting option [...]