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 [...]
BY PLANE The main airlnes (TAM, Gol and Varig) fly to Curitiba from São Paulo. New low-cost airline Azul flies to Curitiba from Viracopos airport in Campinas. The company runs shuttle buses from São Paulo to Viracopos. BY BUS The trip takes approximately 6 hours (traffic permiting) and leaves from Terminal Tietê in São Paulo. [...]
The Terminal Novo Rio is Rio’s main bus station. It is near the centre of the city, in an unsavoury area of the city. We do not recommend walking around the station, it is not safe – the station is safe, though. It consists of two large buildings connected by a footbridge. Enlarge map The [...]
A good while ago I mentioned on this blog the website of the ANTT (a Brazilian government body) with information on Brazilian bus companies and the routes they operate. A very useful page though quite hard to explore – I’ve mentioned several times that top-notch information is not seen in Brazil as a priority when [...]
The site of the Agencia Nacional de Transportes Terrestres (the Brazilian’s government official body for road transportation) is a very useful resource for anyone planning to use the bus while in Brazil. On the webpage you can check which companies operate between two given destinations. The site is in Portuguese only, so here’s how you [...]
