Article - Spot Luck: Great wildlife encounters in Brazil

From the Amazon jungle to the wetlands of the Pantanal, Brazil is home to an astonishing diversity of plant and animal life

It’s a nose. A very long nose. It swings back and forth in our direction, combing the breeze for our scent like some animated Hoover nozzle. Finding nothing amiss, the owner continues her meandering path towards us. What now?

The long grass parts as her outlandish form emerges into full view. Fifteen metres, 10 metres, eight metres. Surely she has seen us. But the wind is in our favour and those stuck-on currants of eyes are fooling nobody. Now we can see her pickaxe front claws and metre-long witch’s broom of a tail. And, best of all, her passenger: a mini-me clinging gamely to mum’s back like some myopic clanger.

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News - Brazil Spending US$ 86 Billion to Host the 2014 World Cup

In order to improve tourism infrastructure in the next few year in preparation to receive soccer lover from all over the world the Brazilian government and the private initiative are going to invest 2.2 billion Brazilian reais (US$ 1.2 billion).

The amount is part of an investment package to be made in the country up until 2014, when Brazil is going to host the Soccer World Cup. The information was supplied by the executive secretary at the Ministry of Tourism, Mário Moysés.

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Article: Mega-resort Aquiraz Riviera starts land plots sales
by Nuno Sobral, manager and partner at Nobreza Empreendimentos Imobiliários

Mega-resort Aquiraz Riviera, a venture promoted by the Portuguese-Brazilian consortium, has launched on 26^th June the first phase of sales of residential lots in its tourism and real estate project. The first phase includes 312 lots, with a 1,000 sq meters average area. Realtor Lopes Immobilis is in charge of commercialization of what will be the largest tourism venture of international standard in Brazil.

Located in Marambaia beach in Aquiraz, about 25 km away from Fortaleza, Ceará, the mega-venture  will be the largest international standard tourism development in Brazil, with an estimated total value of US$ 350 million. The Aquiraz Riviera has a total area of 285 hectares, approximately 1,800 meters of ocean front and is developed by a consurtium, Aquiraz Investmentos  SA, which includes the entrepreneur Ivens Dias Branco and the portuguese Ceara  Investment Fund, Grupo Hoteleiro Dom Pedro and Grupo Solverde.

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Brazil 2014 - Meet the Host Cities: Belo Horizonte (MG)

Population: 2,4 million inhabitants

Area: 330,954 km²

GDP: R$ 32,7 billions

GDP per capita: R$ 13,6 thousands

Airports: Aeroporto Internacional Tancredo Neves, Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha-MG-Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Aeroporto Carlos Prates

Acocomodations: 19.000 beds

Public transportation: 7.000 buses

Metro: yes

A State capital designed by engineer and urbanist Aarão Reis in the end of the 19th century, Belo Horizonte seduces tourists with both its exuberant scenario and enormous potential for culture and business.

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Guide - The Rio Carnival Guide

The Rio Carnival Guide

This is a fundamental guide for those travelling to Rio de Janeiro for the World’s biggest show, Rio Carnival. The guide provides information about all aspects of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. You can find all Rio Carnaval events, venues, its history, 2009 Rio Carnival tickets, costumes for the 2009 Samba Parade and Sambodromo information, including insiders’ recommendations. You will be able to book your hotel-only and air-inclusive packages to Carnival in Rio and listen to the 2009 samba songs. The guide is recomended by world-famous travel information service Lonely Planet.

To access The Rio Carnival Guide follow this link.

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