Itinerary Brazil - Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Itinerary Brazil on 19/09/08

MH Itinerary: Brazil Coastal Travel_01

Route: Buenos Aires – Iguazu – Florianopolis – Sao Paulo – Rio – Bahia / Salvador – Rio – Buenos Aires

Hostels:

Iguazu: Hostel Bambu (dorms $21BRL / $9USD, privates $40BRL / $28USD).

Florianopolis: Backpackers Sunset (dorms $35BRL / $16USD, privates $45BRL / $21USD).

Sao Paulo: Casa Club Hostel Bar (dorms $35BRL / $16USD, privates $40BRL / $28USD).

Rio: Rio Hostel Ipanema (dorms $37BRL / $17USD, privates $120BRL / $56USD).

Bahia / Salvador: (dorms $25BRL / $12USD, privates $90BRL / $42USD).

Travel:

From Buenos Aires to Iguazu by bus: 17 hours, prices range from $166ARS / $49USD for regular buses to $210ARS / $62USD for the sleeper buses.

From Buenos Aires to Iguazu by air: 2 hours, price for one-way economy class is $497ARS / $147USD.

From Iguazu to Florianopolis by bus: 12 hours, information on price couldn’t be found on Portuguese websites.

From Iguazu to Florianopolis by air: Kayak and Portuguese websites didn’t offer any flight information.

From Florianopolis to Sao Paulo by bus: 11 hours, prices range from $67BRL / $31USD for regular buses to $145BRL / $68USD for the sleeper buses.

From Florianopolis to Sao Paulo by air: 1 hour, price for one-way economy class is approximately $150USD.

From Sao Paulo to Rio by bus: Almost 6 hours, prices range from $58BRL / $28USD for regular buses to $106BRL / $51USD for the sleeper buses.

From Sao Paulo to Rio by air: 1 hour, price for one-way economy class is approximately $109USD.

From Rio to Bahia / Salvador and back by bus: 28 hours each way, approximately $400BRL / $188USD for round trip.

From Rio to Bahia / Salvador and back by air: 4-5 hours, price for round-trip economy class is $479BRL / $226USD.

From Rio to Buenos Aires by bus: 38-42 hours, prices range from $324ARS / $96USD to $378ARS / $112USD, all are sleepers.

From Rio to Buenos Aires by air: 3.5 hours, price for one-way ticket is approximately $350USD.

Notes:

In most cases, Brazil’s best method of transportation is by bus. There are numerous Thorntree threads detailing how efficient, cheap, and comfortable most of the bus lines are. I’ve also got links here for the Brazilian bus companies that have English websites:

Auto Viacao 1001: http://www.autoviacao1001.com.br/en/

Pluma: http://www.pluma.com.br/engli/main.htm

Going by air is generally more expensive, but Rio to Bahia and back by bus is almost the same price as flying round-trip, so for that portion of the trip it’s much better to fly. The only real requirement is booking a couple of days in advance. The two biggest airlines in Brazil are:

TAM: http://www.tam.com.br

GOL: http://www.voegol.com.br/INT/Paginas/home.aspx

Lonely Planet’s Thorntree has some good information on routes and times, as well as specific companies to use in some of the more obscure places. Here are some links:

Brazil FAQ:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1586965&tstart=0

Brazil Branch:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forum.jspa?forumID=22

13/09/11, 07:30
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Susannah

Ppl like you get all the brinas. I just get to say thanks for he answer.

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criticism is well eplcad. When said criticism comes from someone, who like me has spent years blogging, lobbying, and generally wasting a great deal of time, energy and money trying to get things to change for the better, then the criticism is all the more valid. In my opinion anyway. So I accept no one's criticism of my criticism, as selfish as if may sound to you, for my criticism comes from what I perceive is an acute understanding of our situation. Furthermore, my criticism is not borne in a quitate tu p'a ponerme yo stance, neither in the ever so common -among our politicos and public people- stance of vying for position and money with a disgraceful lack of care for the general wellbeing. I think my criticism, and that of Juan, Quico, Miguel, Daniel, etc., is, *specially*, valid for as far as I believe, it is sincere, well meaning, we want to improve *everyone's* parcel, ours being just not in the picture. We are not jockeying for position here, we are not doing it to gain an advantage, but rather to use our capacity, whatever it may be, for the betterment of our country, and *all* its inhabitants.Now what seems vicious, or self loathing to you is merely expressions of a group of people who are worried to death, sad in the extreme, and generally spiritually sick for the general lack of a collective realisation of what we could be, but aren't, owing to easily correctible idiosyncratic shortcomings. Most of the people visiting this and other similar blogs are Venezuelans, as I once put it to Miguel, who are a tiny minority, a reduct of the moral fibre still left in our society. We are, mostly, a bunch of well travelled, well educated folks for whom it is physically impossible to keep quiet on the stuff that goes on, or, indeed, put up with the BS that passes for analysis, criticism, or well meaning commentary from people that, in our opinion, has not got the slightest clue about what's really going on. We are a bunch of restless little indians, rebellious noble savages if you will. We have seen what can be achieved, we have witnessed and lived events in other countries, and the persistent questions that pops in our minds is: why not in our country? Have we not got intelligent, well educated people with enough credentials? Have we any genetic impediments? Ultimately, what do Chileans, for instance, have that we haven't got? In answer to every question, what we lack is a self defeating sense of purpose, we don't know what we are, as a people. Our identity has been shaped by charlatans, by crooks, by epitomes of the quitate tu And so it hurts to see where we are at. To me at least.While we live with this constant moral burden, the least we can do, for our mental sanity, is to rant among peers whom we think are in a similar position.

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