|
||||||
|
|
The 2009 edition of the traditional Tanabata Matsuri Japanese festival takes places on the 11th and 12rd of July (Saturday and Sunday) on the Japanese district of Liberdade, in São Paulo. We attended the festival a couple of years ago and wrote a blog entry about the event. To us, the Tanabata is when the [...] I’ve just received Maranhão, imágenes de un paraíso brasileño, a book where I have gathered some of my best photos of the part of Brazil that has left a stronger impression on me since my arrival in the country seven years ago. At Blurb’s website you can preview the first 14 pages of the book. [...] The traditional Tanabata Matsuri Japanese festival takes places on the 12th and 13rd of July (Saturday and Sunday) on the oriental district of Liberdade, in São Paulo. We attended the festival last year and wrote a blog entry about the event. To us, the Tanabata is when the Liberdade looks at its best. Chances are [...] The Toyo Matsuri, held at the beginning of December in the oriental quarter of Liberdade, in São Paulo, is, along with the Tanabata Matsuri celebrated in July, the most important festival of the Japanese community in São Paulo. The festival has been held for 39 years now. If during the Tanabata Matsuri the streets of [...] The Carnatal is here! That is, Natal’s carnival – Natal is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Strictly speaking, we are dealing here with a micareta (a carnival that takes places outside the carnival period). It is the largest of such carnivals in the whole of Brazil, gathering more than one [...] |
  
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.  |
||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Brazil Travel Blog - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
Brazilian Real Exchange Rate