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Belem Slideshow
Top Hotels in Belem
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Hilton Belem Hotel
46 reviews -
Hotel Regente Belem
12 reviews
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Ibis Belem Aeroporto
43 reviews
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Equatorial Hotel Belem
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Vila Rica Belem Hotel
3 reviews -
Belem Soft Hotel
6 reviews
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Itaoca Belem
2 reviews -
Hotel Graop Para Belem
9 reviews -
Formule 1 Belem
34 reviews
Belem
Travel Blogs from Belem, Brazil
Down the Amazon River
This is a top pick! ... the shore go by, which in some cases was a couple miles away in both directions... the Amazon River is HUGE !!!! While in Belem I did the usual city exploration and checked out a couple museums and the fish market. From here, I am well positioned to ...
Cachoeira - Day 52-54
This is a top pick! ... a strange concoction of religious influences from one end of the spectrum to the other, it's very unique to this region of Brazil. Unfortunately I didn't have chance to see this unique religion being practised in the area. This evening I was in ...
How many sandunes are there in Brazil?
This is a top pick! ... hadn´t seen a film since Lima, this was a nice change. That night we had our second last night bus, to Belem. All in all, a fairly straightforward trip except for the road disappearing sometime in the middle of the night and experiencing the ...
A Whale of a Tale
This is a top pick! ... encountered when he visited while travelling on the HMS Beagle in 1832. Abrolhos - which literally translates as "open your eyes"- is Brazil's first marine park, and was created in 1983 to protect and study the whales, and to preserve the coral reefs ...
Belém
This is a top pick! Belém, Brazil Nov 3-4 Ok. The mouth of the Amazon -- where it feeds into the Atlantic. Otherwise known as a place to skip! Not much here, a fun dinner at some restored docks. And a musician playing on a moving platform...hmmm. Managed to find ...
Early morning flying!
This is a top pick! ... in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest. Said our goodbyes to the Dragoman group and chilled out until midnight awaiting our 3am flight to Belem which is the coast and entrance to the Amazon. We had intended to fly to Sao Luiz directly but it was too ...
Cruising Down The Amazon!!
This is a top pick! ... on deck for the whole trip sleeping in hammocks!). He even brought his own TV onboard which he took with him when he got off half way to Manaus to catch a flight back to Belem! All in all it was a fantastic 5 days though dont ask me where the time ...
Slow, Steady and Sweltering
This is a top pick! ... least until about 9 am - but mid-day found us right in the middle of Teresina, a city renowned as being the hottest in Brazil! In places the tarmac road surface was buckling and melting in the heat, and even the slight breeze did little to alleviate the ...
Amazon Queen - Arrived in Belem
This is a top pick! Arrived in Belem yesterday afternoon, after an amazing four day journey along the Amazon River, places and romantic names that I only every drempt of visiting whilst reading my geography books. The boat journey was a fantastic opportuinity to interact ...
Bustle in Belem
... to wake early, in Rio I slept through an alarm, and I cant miss this flight in the morning!! Miles walked 5.2 Temp 25C 78F Brazil - I spent over 17 days in Brazil and if I had the budget I would have spent another month or two! Dont be fooled, ...
AMAZON - AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER
This is a top pick! ... their extra bananas. If anyone wants to write me, my address is: Shady Acres Housing, Branch 6, Twig B, Leaf 206, Belém, Pará, Brazil. Ha, ha. I'm just yarning ya'! I'm not really living in a tree. It's just my dream. But, I saw ...
A boy in every port
This is a top pick! ... of Brazil. It was so similar to back home that I felt a bit uneasy mixing amongst the middle and upper classes whilst backpacking Brazil. Jaime took quite a shine to me and I must say that I took full advantage of him being a local (and from Santarèm ...
Finally...Belem!
This is a top pick! ... 5 day slow boat instead! The skies were cool...really moody and you could see the storm clouds gathering! The dockside in Belem is very funky (and full of drunk locals on this occasion!)...they've basically converted the whole area into posh restaurants ...
Aprenda Português a caminho a Belém
Before embarking on the two day boat journey to Belém, as it was Friday night I thought it would be rude not to sample the nightlife that Santarém has to offer. I've been away for one month now, and I have long since lost the feeling that I am getting ...
Never ending bus rides
after almost missing our plane in Rio because our passports were locked into a safe where we had no access, we flew to Belem in northern Brazil. We arrived in the middle of the night but the humidity and heat were still oppressing. We found a shitty hotel ...
Boat trip from Manaus to Belem
... us, sometimes while we were not looking and then took great joy in showing us later on! By the 3rd night they gave us nuts (Brazil nuts). Talk about feeling like monkeys in a zoo as two of 5 gringos on the boat, the only blonde ones... We were quite ...
A travers l amazonie (part 2) !
... de mon temps (quand je n apprenais pas le portugais hehe)> parties de cartes, discussions, etc. Et me voila arrive a Belem ! Qui nous accueilla par 2 ptits cons qui tenterent de nous raquetter quand on marchait vers le centre. Nous avons toutefois pus ...
The Boat Trip Belem - Manaus
L -15/05/08 until 21/05/08 The boat didn't leave until 8am so we had been sitting on the a moored boat for 14hours, Gabrel found out that there was a problem with the rotor and then the tide had gone out so we were wedged in the sand. The boat was ...
leaving the amazon
... the present of a crystal i gave him into the water after all 90 seconds of possession he had of it) Arriving in Belem i decided to chill. i met 2 really cool gringos that had spent the last couple of months exploring forbidden backwaters of the ...
Arraial de Israel
Next stop on the tour....Arraial de Ajuda, the first encounter with the Israeli's that apparently have infiltrated Brasil. A cute little town between Salvador and Rio that we ventured to with Jay and Roxy, friends we met in Morro. After a month in ...
De Belém para Miami
Viagem tranqüila até Manaus. Em Manaus passamos pela imigração e pouco depois embarcávamos com destino a Miami. Chegando a Miami, passamos pela imigração, apanhamos as malas e passamos pela Alfândega. Tudo bem ráoido. Pegamos um táxi com ...
Day tour to Icoaraci
... is such a rich country in what regards handicraft. I am always surprised with the diversity and beauty of handicraft I find in Brazil. Every little region seems to have its own type of work using a wide range of materials and techniques. It was very ...
Ilha do Marajó: Salvaterra, Soure, Joanes ...
Chilling on the beach - and such a special beach! It was difficult to believe that the beach was part of a river; I could not see the other shore... It felt like the ocean, with waves and sandy beaches. Beautiful nature and lovely ...
Feliz Natal: The End of The Journey
... like I'm at home again. We thoroughly scoured through just about every single shop, outraged at how much everything costs. Brazil has some serious import and export tax on just about everything. Clothes and accessories especially. It really made me ...
Bélem
Bélem, capital de Pará, es una ciudad interesante. Tiene un barrio muy antiguo, con calles animadas y edificios mal cuidados. Justo al lado del muy popular y conocido mercado, ver-o-peso, está un tipo de centro de cafés lujosillo y nuevos (Estacião ...
Belem - mesto duhov
Na sreco sva zadela ta pravo letalsko druzbo - TAM, ki je precej boljsa od Iberie. Varno naju je pripeljala v Belem in nama celo dala nekaj za jest :) Kar se tice Belema, je pa zgodba cisto drugacna; priletela sva v soboto, sredi velikonocnih praznikov, ...
get me out of here : O
what a s**t-pit and hot as hell too! Our hotel...if indeed you can call it that, should be condemned! if it hasn't already ! and its not the cheapest place here...we dread to think! we cant afford to stay at the Hilton, so were booking the boat out of ...
Cruising down the Amazon
... clearing customs we caught a bus into the city. As we had all our bags and surfboards we knew we were back in Brazil when we couldn't get everything through the bus turnstiles!! Luckily everyone was very helpful so we had various people holding our bags! ...