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7 full (and free!) tourist guides on Brazil available online

Publishing house Empresa das Artes, with an extense travel-related catalogue, is enabling free online access to the full contents of several of its guides. To read the guides you need to access the tool provided by Book Stand Panrotas.
The available guides are:
Amazonas
Bahia
Goiás
Mato Grosso
Pará
Paraná
Santa Catarina
To open each guide, click on CLIQUE para ler esta publicação. A [...]

Bonito – trip report

Bonito is an eco-tourism destination quite popular among Brazilians and little known among foreigners. It is located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the southernmost tip of the Pantanal region. There is an entry for Bonito on this blog, destination: Bonito. From the trip made in 2001 I uploaded a handful of [...]

World Heritage sites in Brazil: a report

The AdventureTravelLogue reported last November that the National Geographic and the George Washington University had conducted a third study on the situation of some of Unesco World Heritage sites.
Three Brazilian sites were assessed in the report:
Iguazu Falls, (shared with Argentina) received a score of 61 out of 100, indicating mixed reviews, positive and negative aspects [...]

World Heritage Sites

The list of World Heritage sites drafted by UNESCO includes 10 Brazilian locations under the Cultural Heritage category and 7 under the Natural Heritage one.

Cultural Heritage:

Brasilia
Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
Historic Centre of São Luís
Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina
Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás
Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda
Historic Town of [...]

Destination: Bonito

Bonito is a very popular ecotourism destination not very well known outisde Brazil. The main reason for its relatively unknown status outside Brazil might be due to its remote location (see the GoogleMaps link below): Bonito is a village in the southernmost part of the Pantanal, 300 km away from the nearest major airport [...]