Looking for cheap holidays?

Find the best all inclusive and last minute holidays to Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Caribbean and Tenerife with On the Beach Holidays.

Vacationing in Brazil?

Relax with your own personal timeshare vacation property. Buy and sell timeshare with the world's largest resale agency, Timeshares Only.
Looking for Travel Insurance? Then try Cheaptravelinsurance.com for low cost travel insurance to Brazil for people in the UK

For more information...

... about culture, tourism and politics, take this virtual travel to Brazil.
Not Found in Brochures!
If you feel our work here at the Brazil Travel Blog is useful, please donate to support the blog (donations via PayPal). Any amount is appreciated - no matter how small.

Mighty real

A vitamin-enriched real – the Brazilian currency, reached on Friday an all-time high against the dollar. Not since 1999 had a real bought so many dollars. On Friday, 1 US dollar would buy you 1,5895 reais. 1 euro would buy 2,5194 reais (I’m mentioning here the “comercial” quotation of the dollar, for more info read [...]

prices in Florianópolis

As Florianópolis is a larguish island with scores of towns and villages, there are considerable price differences between one place and another, even when there are quite near each other.
The supermarket chain Imperatriz has a website where you can check out its weekly promotions. For as long as the page stays online, it is the [...]

Petrol [gas] prices in Brazil – how to find out about them

The Brazilian government’s agency responsible for fuel, the Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis better known as ANP, has a useful tool on its website where you can look up the average prices for fuel all throughout the Brazilian territory: Levantamento de preços.
[As usual on the websites of a government that calls [...]

Three budgets for a trip to Brazil

Ariel, a reader of De Viaje a Brasil, suggested the idea of an entry with the draft of three different budgets for the traveller preparing a trip to Brazil. In spite of the difficulties inherent to a entry of this kind, I have accepted the challenge. I won’t bore you with lengthy explanations on why [...]

Prices of things in Brazil

This blog presents today a new page: Prices. There you will find a shortish list of prices of basic items of interest to the tourist. Most of the prices refer to the city of São Paulo, where I live. In a country as large as Brazil it is absolutely impossible to make general statements.
With the [...]