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Individual tour
Period: 13 days / 12 nights
The most suitable journey to let you meet the different facettes of Brazil: culture and history in Olinda, overwhelming rainforest in the extensive Amazone, thundering nature-violence at the widest waterfalls in the world and the vibrating (beach) life of Rio de Janeiro, the city of the carioca's.
Our individual tours
because our individual tours are designed for the individual traveller, departure is daily and guaranteed, and are ideally suitable for 2, 3 or 4 persons travelling together.
Transportation is always in a private car or minibus with airconditioning and chauffeur and/or guide.
Naturally you can always call upon the assistance of our representatives when you want to make a reservation for an excursion or tour.
For each individual tour you can choose between middle or deluxe class hotels, of which you will find the descriptions on our hotelpages.
We make the following difference in our individual tours:
COMFORTTOUR
at each destination you will be met at the airport by our local agent who will bring you to the hotel, briefing you on the program of the next days. A half or full day excursion is arranged to get to know the place and surroundings. Next to that you have enough time on your own to do your own discoveries.
The ideal tour for those who like to travel without having to make homework during the vacation!
Note: when you have chosen for middleclass hotels the excursions are based on Seat In Coach, when Luxury class hotels on private basis.
BUDGETTOUR
at each destination you are met at the airport by a driver of our local agent, who will take you to the hotel. There are no excursions pre-reserved so that you have all time to discover yourself. Your complete tour has been arranged but with complete freedom at the respective destination.
The ideal tour for the costconscious traveller!
Underneath tour is only an example of the many possibilities we can offer. Want to design your own tour or rootstour? Please contacts us for a proposal.
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dag 1
Arrival in Recife, meet and greet with our local representative and transfer to the hotel in Olinda.
Rest of the day at leisure.
You will stay in hotel Sete Colinas.
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Recife
Recife is the multicultural capital of the state of Pernambuco with much Dutch influences and more than 3 million inhabitants, whereof a lot of them are having a name that sounds Dutch. Maurits van Oranje built the first bridge in South-America and made the urban developers make a good structured plan, thus making the base for the current Recife. Because of the recent radical renovation the buildings (also those of the Portuguese) are in full glory to admire in old Recife.
Besides the historical city with the beautiful long sand beach, is Recife the biggest regional centre of economy, art and culture, education, sports and tourism.
In the evening hours a big number of streets are closed for traffic and terraces are made where people can enjoy the delicious fish and meat dishes, for which the region is famous. After that there will be drinking and dancing on the 'Frevo', the Pernambucanian variant of the samba.
On the Praça de Republica there are some Government buildings with between them the Theatre Santa Isabel, a beautiful neoclassical building from 1850, which can be visited between 14.00 hours and 15.00 hours.
The same square is houses the tribunal and to the opposite the Palácio das Princeses, the palace of the ‘governador’ of Pernambuco.
At Rua do Imperador 206 one finds the Capela Dourada from 1697. This ‘golden’ chapel, a beautiful example of the Brazilian religious architecture, like the São Francisco in Salvador.
The Casa Cultura is originnally a prison from the 19th century, but the interior is totally renovated and reformed in a handicraft shoppingcentre. The former prisoner cells on all 3 floors have been converted into small shops where you will find a great choice of products that are made of silver, leather and clay. You can also buy the local liqueur, paintings, pictures and wood carving. In the Casa Cultura you will find a good resemblance of the local culture.
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day 2
In the morning you will have a city-tour through de big city Recife. Because of the many canals some people call Recife the Venice of Brazil.
You will also be guided through the historical city Olinda, this is one of the cities which Dutch Queen Beatrix visited in 2003.
Rest of the day at leisure.
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day 3
Entire day at leisure.
You can for example make an excursion to the colonial city Iguarassu or to the peninsula Itamaricá with the Fort Orange or you can just relax at the swimmingpool of Sete Colinas.
Definitely worth a visit is the small city Caruaru, known for the big processions, parties and the colourful handicraft they make here.
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day 4
At the end of the day transfer to the airport, on own ocassion, for your domestic flight to Manaus.
After arrival meet and greet with our representative and transfer to the hotel of your choice.
Rest of the day at leisure.
You will stay in hotel Monaco or Tropical Manaus.
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Amazone
The largest rainforest on earth. The Amazone came into existence about 2 million years ago, and is about 4 million km2 in environs in the Brazilian part. We can also find the Amazone in: Frans Guyana, Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela.
The Amazone river and her many side-rivers belongs to the biggest rivers in the world and have more then the 20% of the sweet water stock in Brasil. The total length of the river is 7.025 kilometres whereof 3.150 kilometres is in Brasil. The widest river in Brasil is
12 kilometres. Only the Nile in Africa exceeds the Amazone in the capacity of length.
The mouth is situated by the city Belém and is formed by innumerable islands and rivers. The biggest island in the mouth is Isla de Marajó with an area of 50.000 km2, which is bigger then many European country.
In the rainforest-climate, with an average temperature of 26 degrees, live 2000 different kind of fishes, 8000 kind of birds, 50.000 kind of known and unknown insects, 1800 kind of butterflies ect., make 1/10 part out of all the different animals who live on this planet. There live at a rough estimate 120.000 Native Americans in the Brasil part of the Amazone, next to the so cold 'mameluco's', half-bloods with Native American and Portugese forefarthers.
Representate below you will see the 'Victoria Regia', a waterplant with the biggest leafs in the world.
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day 5, 6 ,7
After breakfast you will be picked up early at the hotel for a transportation by road and water to the Amazon Ecopark Lodge.
The next days you will be guided by our local guide through the nature of the largest rainforest in the world and the inhabitants.
You will make a jungle-tour by foot, discover the many rivers and side-arms during a motorized canoe-tour, you will go fishing for piranha's, look for alligators and visit the caboclos like the inhabitants are called.
All excursions and meals during the stay in the Amazon Ecopark are included.
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day 7
Late in the morning you will go back to the airport of Manaus for the domestic flight via São Paulo to Foz do Iguaçu. You will arrive late at night.
After arrival meet and greet with our local representative and transfer to hotel Bristol Carima or resorthotel San Martin.
N.B. Because of adjusments in flighttimes there is a possibility that you have to stay one night in hotel Novotel in Manaus.
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day 8
Entire day at leisure to come to yourself because of the long flight of yesterday, and to discover the city on your own.
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Foz do Iguaçu
In Foz do Iguaçu has the widest and according to many people the most beautiful waterfalls of the world.
At 640 kilometers from Curitiba, Foz has been investing in new itineraries for the so-called ecological tourism adepts.
The beauty of its 275 falls that form an impressive spectacle of the Waterfalls added to a tourism infrastructure - complete hostelry network, space for events, rich gastronomy - make of Foz do Iguaçu an ever more attractive destination for those who seek destinations that ally nature with ecological programms. The first step to modernize and increment the tourist flow was the privatization of the National Park of Iguaçu. In a first phase, a new Visitors Center was built with capacity to take 12 thousand people per day, equipped with tourist reception service and 24-hour banking services, souvenir store, telephones, restrooms, parking for cars, shuttles, and buses. The transportation system in the Park's interior is now done with modern two-store tourism buses with panoramic view, accompanied by guides who give information in many languages.
Situated at the border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, 275 waterfalls are falling down more than 80 metres over a width of 3 kilometres downwards through a special and accrued tropical rainforest.
From afar you can hear the sound of the always falling water mass, which forms a curtain beyond the green back wall of the jungle with many birds and colourful butterflies. In the rainy period the quick streaming water has a brownish colour, the water is clear in the dry season. The whole area is a Parque Nacional and is listed on the world heritage of the United Nations.
Definitely worth a visit is the Itaipúdam, which is constructed for revival of energy and is one of the biggest dams of the world.
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day 9
After breakfast a walk-excursion to the Brazilian side of the waterfalls.
Rest of the day at leisure to, for example, visit the city or make an excursion by helicopter over the waterfalls. This is only possible with a clear sky.
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day 10
At the end of the day on own ocassion transfer to the airport for your domestic flight to Rio de Janeiro.
After arrival meet and greet with our local representative and transfer to the hotel of your choice. Rest of the day at leisure.
You will stay in hotel Mar Palace or hotel Portinari.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is a bubbling city of beach, samba, carnival and soccer with more than 9 million inhabitants. Many soccer players show what they can on the world-famous Copacabana and Ipanema beaches.
The 'Cidade Maravilhosa' is probably discovered in January 1502 by the Portuguese Gonçalo Coelho, when he thought he landed in the mouth of a river, and therefor named the place Rio (river) de Janeiro (January). Several years later the famous Amerigo Vespucci saw this area and made it known to the world that 'if somewhere on earth a Paradise exists, it must be here'. Because of its site at the Bay of Guanabara amidst tropical hills and with exotic beaches, the metropole has a big attraction to many, wtiness the fact that it is the most fotogenic and most fotographed city in the World.
Known throughout the World for its Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, the Maracana football stadium and the bubbling and swinging Carnival. But also the Pão the Açucar (Sugarloaf) and the Christ statue on the 710 meter high Corcovado, with a fantastic view on Rio, are a visit more than worth. The City is surrounded by lush tropical mountains, the large bay with many ships and the white beaches. It gives the City a fairytale atmosphere, but reality often is different. It is a real metropole that lives 24 hours per day, with many modern but also very poor neighbourhoods (favela's). The carioca's (inhabitants of Rio) colour the city with many colours, complemented by samba, bossa nova, carnival and footbal on the beaches.
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day 11
Entire day of excursion along the many sights of this vibrating city.
You will bring a visit to the old city, you will go by cable railway to the Sugarloaf and at the end of the day you will go to the Christ-statue on the Corcovado, when the view at sunset is at its best.
Lunch included in a typical barbeque restaurant.
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day 12
Entire day of leisure to make, for example, a walk along the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema or just to relax at one of the terraces and watch the Carioca's.
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day 13
At the end of the day on own ocassion to the airport for your flight to continue your journey through Brazil or to go back to Europe.
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Individual tour 'Brazil Experience'
Departure: daily
Price per person in €
| Accommodation | single room | double room | triple room | 2 x double room | | middle class hotel | | | | | | Budgettravel | 1530 | 962 | 879 | 937 | | Comforttravel | 1959 | 1216 | 1104 | 1155 | | luxury class hotel | | | | | | Budgettravel | 2047 | 1242 | 1128 | 1211 | | Comforttravel | 2476 | 1496 | 1353 | 1428 |
Budgettravel is without excursions.
Comforttravel is with excursions.
A roundtripflight Amsterdam-Recife/Rio de Janeiro-Amsterdam is available from only €608 in lowseason.
Airporttaxes and surcharges are between €350-390 per person.
An airpass for the domestic flights is available from €481 (depending on int'l flights and bookingclass).
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Included
- transfers at arrival in Recife, Manaus, Foz do Iguaçu and Rio de Janeiro in a vehicle with airco and driver
- excursions as mentioned in the program
- entrance fees for Iguaçu National Park
- 3 nights in Recife/Olinda in the hotel of your choice o.b. breakfast
- 3 nights in the Amazon Ecopark Lodge o.b. fullboard (excl. drinks)
- 2 nights in Foz do Iguaçu in the hotel of your choice o.b. breakfast
- 3 nights in Rio de Janeiro in the hotel of your choice o.b. breakfast
- services from our representatives
Not included
- international flights to and from Brazil
- domestic flights
- personal expenses such as: tips, souvenirs, taxi's, telephonecalls from your hotels
- other, not mentioned meals
- cancellation- and travelinsurances
Observations
- Our individual roundtrips are offered excluding tickets because these tours are often combined with other tours in Brazil. Braziltours can arrange all tickets, hotelnights, excursions and transfers in combination with your individual tour.
- it is advisable to make reservations for your flights on a timely basis to obtain the cheapest fares possible.
- all tours can be extended before, after and during the tour. Please ask us for a quotation!
- The Tropical Eco Manaus has no triple rooms. When travelling with three persons you will stay in one single room and one double room.
- Braziltours does not charge reservationcosts!
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