Brazil Travel Blog

We’ve made another update in Accommodation in Brazil, with three new blog posts with full listings of accommodation in Barra do Sahy and Barra do Una in the state of São Paulo and Praia do Forte in the state of Bahia.

You might remember this blog’s entry on our top 10: beaches, published quite a while ago. This new entry is a reworking of the original list, to which we have added satellite images of the beaches. Sweet dreams of crystal water beaches! 1. Praia do Sancho, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco. Enlarge map 2. Praia dos [...]

I have recently published a series of posts on my Blog de São Paulo (in Spanish) on the Costa dos Alcatrazes, a stretch of coast on the state of São Paulo that contains some really wonderful beaches (see map next). Show larger map The Costa dos Alcatrazes is a couple of hours away from São [...]

One thing that makes the beaches of the northern coast of São Paulo (and the southern coast of Rio, and other bits further south) unique is that they are found right by the Atlantic rainforest. The biodiversity of the Mata Atlántica, as the forest is known in Portuguese, is unrivalled. The scenery too. The sequence [...]

The distance from the city of São Paulo to the shore is relatively short, and there is no shortage of beaches along the coastline. The coast of the state of São Paulo is divided in two large regions: the north coast (litoral norte), from Ubatuba, on the border with the state of Rio de Janeiro, [...]