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Top 10: Brazilian music (B-sides)
2007-08-24 12:31:00 This is an entirely personal list with Brazilian musicians that feature often on my playlists. I have deliberatedly omitted from the list the big names of Brazilian music. I love the music of Marisa Monte and Chico Buarque, I enjoy very much the music of so many Brazilian artists of worldwide fame. But with ... More About: Music , Top 10 , Sides , B-Side
Reviews: Pousada Erva Doce, Arraial d’Ajuda
2007-08-22 00:00:00 NAME: pousada Erva Doce WHERE: Arraial d’Ajuda , Bahia WEBSITE: www.ervadoce.com.br IN ENGLISH: yes PRICES ON THE WEBSITE: yes LOCATION: right on the Estrada do Mucugê, the most charming thoroughfare of Arraial; the Estrada do Mucugê is where it’s at. The main entrance to the pousada is surrounded by a coffee shop and a few restaurants and shops. The location ... More About: Reviews , Raia
Cachaça
2007-08-21 00:00:00 To refer to cachaça as the national drink of Brazil might seem a bit of an exaggeration, but the truth is that there is no other alcoholic beverage as popular in Brazil as pinga is - another popular name for cachaça. Cachaça is a cane spirit with a strength from 38% to 51%. It ...
Accommodation reviews
2007-08-21 00:00:00 Before I continue with a few more accommodation reviews - I will publish a new one tomorrow, I would like to make a couple of comments. It’s becoming increasingly more and more difficult to accept an opinion from places like Trip Advisor without a healthy dose of scepticism. Interested parties have entered the arena of ... More About: Reviews , Accommodation , Dati
GP Brazil 2007 - Formula 1
2007-08-18 00:00:00 The Brazil ian Grand Prix at Interlagos will be the last race of the season, and will take place in São Paulo on October 21. The sporting event draws thousands of fans every year to the Brazilian race course. There is complete information on the race at the official website of the GP de Brasil. When the ... More About: Formula , Formula 1
There is a queue in São Paulo
2007-08-18 00:00:00 Until September 9 you can witness at the Avenida Paulista a queue that seems to be going nowhere. A very funny and stress-free queue totally unconnected to the long queues at the airports. The artists Gigi Manfrinato and Sandra Lee have modelled 26 figures, using papel, glue, plaster and ciment. With their exhibits, the artists ... More About: Queue , Paulo
New presentation of the photographs
2007-08-14 00:00:00 From now on, my photographs have a new presentation I have been working on over the last few weeks. The reason for the change is twofold. On the one hand, I wanted to be able to upload larger photograps for the enjoyment (I hope) of those with larger monitor screens. On the other hand, ... More About: Photographs , Presentation , Graph , Resent
Carnival 2008: dates
2007-08-10 00:00:00 The official dates for the Carnival 2008 go from the 2nd to the 5th of February. Still quite far way in time, though early birds are already making enquiries about accommodation. For the time being there is no official information on either the Rio (Rio Turismo) or the São Paulo carnival. The carnival industry in Salvador ... More About: Dates
Your luggage and domestic flight connections
2007-08-10 00:00:00 Just a reminder that if your arrive in Brazil from abroad and have a domestic connecting flight, you will have to get your baggage from the conveyor belt at your first entry point in the country, go through customs, and check in your luggage again. Standard procedure. Share This More About: Domestic , Flight , Luggage , Dome , Connections
top 10: foreign tourists in Brazil
2007-08-08 00:00:00 Which are the countries sending the most tourists to Brazil ? Here’s the top ten (data from 2005): Argentina. 992.000 tourists. For 87% it’s not their first visit to Brazil. Main destinations: Rio de Janeiro, Búzios, São Paulo, Florianópolis y Porto Alegre. United States. 794.000 tourists. For 61% it’s not their first visit to Brazil. Main destinations: ... More About: Tourists , Foreign , Tourist , Fore
Whale-watching in Santa Catarina
2007-08-07 00:00:00 The whale-watching season is on its way on the southern coast of Brazil. The Right Whale Environmental Protection Area goes from Pinheira, south of Florianópolis, to Rincão, and it’s there where most whales gather together. When summer arrives in the southern hemisphere, right whales abandon their traditional feeding grounds, in colder latitudes, and seek the ... More About: Santa , Watching , Whale Watching , Hale
Destination: Alter do Chão
2007-08-07 00:00:00 [from our special guest Daniel] Alter do Chão is a small town in the state of Pará, council of Santarém. It is located at the entrance of a lake formed on the right bank of the Tapajós river - one of the biggest tributaries of the Amazon and known for its greenish-blue waters. When the ... More About: Destination
Liberdade Japanese quarter, São Paulo
2007-08-04 00:00:00 [article originally published in Spanish in the blog de São Paulo ] We can hardly hide it, we have a soft spot for the Japanese quarter of Liberdade, in São Paulo. It’s our favourite part of the city. An exceptional place with a unique atmosphere on its streets. We don’t know of any other place in ... More About: Dade , Quarter
How to calculate the distance between two cities
2007-08-01 00:00:00 What’s the distance between…? How far are…? Many end up here on this blog looking for an answer to questions like these ones. I want to introduce to you today a tool that will allow you to find that information effortessly on your own. Three months ago I wrote about the new features introduced by ... More About: Cities , The D , Ween , Calculate
Cheaper flights to Brazil?
2007-08-01 00:00:00 In the midst of so many negative news on air travel in Brazil , the Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico publishes today a surprisingly positive piece of news: Governo quer reduzir tarifa de vôos para fora do país (the government wants to reduce fares for international flights). Briefly, it would seem that the Brazilian government wants ... More About: Flights
Ruy Ohtake in São Paulo
2007-08-01 00:00:00 São Paulo is host to some excellent examples of the work of Japanese-Brazilian architect Ruy Ohtake. One of those examples is the Hotel Unique, winner of uncountable architecture prizes for its futuristic design. Fans of the game show Amazing Race (ninth season) will remember that the contestants had to climb to the top terrace ...
August desktop calendar
2007-07-31 00:00:00 The desktop calendar for the month of August is already available for download at the calendars section of this blog. We have an outstanding guest once again, Rio de Janeiro and a glorious view of Copacabana by night. Share This More About: Desktop , Calendar , Lend
Long queues ahoy!
2007-07-28 00:00:00 The new Brazilian Defence minister has just declared that never-ending queues at the airports are the price you pay for safety. Hold on. If the queues represent any price at all, it has to be the price of incompetence. Because 10 months of queues at the Brazilian airports have brought no safety whatsoever. So much ... More About: Long , Queues
False friends: oi
2007-07-28 00:00:00 The moment you set foot on Brazil people will greet you with the word oi! Do not panic, they are not trying to attract your attention because they are angry. Oi! means simply hi! If you want to render the English oi! into Portuguese, go for something like ei! Share This More About: Friends
Top 10: strong emotions
2007-07-26 00:00:00 I am presenting my very own personal list of 10 moments lived in Brazil filled with emotion. They do not follow any particular order. a huge turtle (up until then you had never stopped to think how large turtles can be) swimming placidly next to you, in complete silence; suddenly a shoal of fish swims ... More About: Emotions , Strong , Emotion
Lost luggage
2007-07-26 00:00:00 A reader of this blog wrote in despair a couple of days ago from the States. Her husband was in Brazil, he had arrived in the country right in the middle of the chaotic situation Brazilian airports are facing at the moment. He had taken a GOL connecting flight from Rio to São Paulo ... More About: Lost , Luggage
Vaccines
2007-07-24 00:00:00 I am reproducing the information on vaccines that appears at the Portal Brasileño de Turismo (run by the Brazilian government). Yellow fever vaccine For tourists who have been in transit over the past three months, or who are coming from certain countries - Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, ... More About: Vaccines
Avoid Congonhas airport at all costs
2007-07-24 00:00:00 If you are coming to Brazil and are planning to take domestic flights, you should avoid at all costs Congonhas airport in São Paulo. An tragedy like the one last week is unlikely to happen in the short term again. The problem is that the chaos that descended on Congonhas after the accident last ... More About: Airport , Avoid , Costs
my new blog on São Paulo
2007-07-24 00:00:00 It fills me with pride to announce the launch of a new project, the blog de São Paulo . A blog along the lines of this Brazil Travel Blog but devoted entirely to the city of São Paulo and its surroundings. Unfortunately, there will only be a Spanish version of the blog. The three blogs ...
Carnival of cities
2007-07-24 00:00:00 An entry from this blog (Tanabata Matsuri in São Paulo) features in the Carnival of Cities hosted by Alan Patrick at his Buenos Aires Argentina Guide blog. A new fascinating trip around the world in one single post. Thanks for all the hard work putting together the carnival, Alan! Share This
No new material today
2007-07-19 00:00:00 I won’t be publishing any new material today. 40 minutes after the tragic air crash last night in São Paulo I began blogging about the event on blog.deviajeabrasil.com (in Spanish only). I need to take a break now. Share This More About: Today , Material , Rial , Teri , Materia
Endangered heritage
2007-07-19 00:00:00 A few months ago I wrote in World Heritage sites in Brazil: a report about a study that assessed the state of conservation of the world heritage in Salvador de Bahia, Iguazu and the Pantanal. Last Sunday, the Folha de São Paulo dedicated an entire page to a feature on the constant degradation of the ... More About: Endangered , Gere
Destination: Lençóis (Bahia)
2007-07-17 00:00:00 [from our friend Lily] Lençóis is a charming little village in the state of Bahia , entry point to the Chapada Diamantina, a National Park in the middle of the Brazilian sertão. Most visitors to the National Park will spend some time in Lençóis, a place that depends almost exclusively on tourism. WE LIKE THE MOST: the ... More About: Destination
Brazil - Argentina
2007-07-16 00:00:00 Or Argentina - Brazil , it’s all the same. I’m writing this entry a few hours before the final match of the Copa America, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where the national teams from both countries will clash, a repetition of the final celebrated three years ago in Peru. Brazil - Argentina represent the biggest rivalry in the ... More About: Gent
Brazil in pictures: gymnastics at the beach
More articles from this author:2007-07-16 00:00:00 Whether it’s capoeira or straightforward gymnastics, I can’t tell for certain. But watching mr muscle exercising at the beach can be a fascinating way of spending your time. We saw our friend here at the praia do Amor, in Pipa. Share This More About: Pictures , Beach , Brazil , Gymnastics , Gymnast 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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