Brasilia, Brazil Travel Blogs

Brasilia - Day 66
Mar 14, 2009 (26 photos)

... , they should of considered more public transport options. Buses are the only option but that's the same across most of Brazil. Brasilia's design was based on an Aeroplane with the fuselage being the heart of the city where the parliament, government ...

C'est quoi une ville sud-americaine ?
Mar 7, 2008 (18 photos)

... que voit-il en sortant ? 2 immenses tours de béton dominant, que dis-je, écrasant les assemblées et tout Brasilia, se dressent devant lui, l'empêchant d'aller au rendez-vous ! Cruel symbole, ces 2 tours abritent... l'administration des assemblées. Le ...

A Primeira Mentira de Julio Verne
Dec 17, 2005 (1 photos)

A Primeira Mentira de Julio Verne (Reflexões antes da partida) Phileas Fogg, personagem principal da "Volta ao Mundo em 80 dias", teve um "estalo" logo de manhã, e resolveu girar o planeta. À noite, já saía de Londres, rumo a Paris,oriente médio, Ásia, etc. ...

Brasilia - a worthwhile unscheduled stop...
Jun 19, 2009 (20 photos)

... to go and have a look for ourselves and were very pleasantly surprised by what we found. History lesson time:  Brasilia is the capital city of Brazil built from the ground up only 49 years ago. It took 3 years to go from dust to a fully functional ...

Bizzarre Brasilia, capital of Brazil
Jan 16, 2007

Got here saturday night. Elter, a contact through SERVAS, picked me up at the airport and took me to his girlfriends, Marcella´s, who is hosting me while I´m here. Very sweet girl, shes driving me around everywhere and feeding me. I finally got to buy her ...

Candido and family
Oct 19, 2007

... as they were living in, and learning about, ours. I knew one day I would see them again in Brazil. So, Peter, Carly, Molly and I arrived in Brasilia and waiting for us was Candido, his wife Patricia, his son Alfredo, his daughter Marianna and my mom ," ...

51º dia: Volta ao Mundo Concluída
Feb 8, 2006

Retornei ao Brasil, no 51º dia de viagem. Completei uma das muitas Voltas ao Mundo possíveis, e ao alcance de todo aquele que tenha verdadeiro interesse em abraçar o planeta Terra, planejando e priorizando esse projeto, e abrindo mão de outros confortos. ...

THE HOME STRETCH - AMAZON NEXT
Jun 4, 2008 (5 photos)

... a while, since he'd never done it before, but we finally got our piece of paper. It was clear we could have driven off into Brazil without it, but doubtful whether we could get the Jeep out at the other end. So we headed off finally to find the road to ...

Capital "Brasilia"
Nov 26, 2006 (5 photos)

... the federal capital of Brazil from the coast to Midwestern / interior of the country. Brasilia's location, it was argued, would promote the development of Brazil's central region and better integrate the entire territory of Brazil. People from all over ...

Brazilian fight-dance
Nov 29, 2006 (3 photos)

Capoeira is a Brazilian fight-dance, game, and martial art created by enslaved Africans during the 19th Century. Participants form a roda (circle) and take turns playing instruments, singing, and sparring in pairs in the centre of the circle. The game ...

Stuck in Brasilia
Jul 5, 2007 (2 photos)

Arrived into Brasilia at 4pm hoping to get a bus straight away to Salvador. No such luck!! the earliest bus we can get was 2 days later. Fantastic we´ ...

Civilization
Jul 20, 2006 (5 photos)

We were lucky enough to have a lovely hostess in Brasilia who really looked after us and showed us around this incredible city. the city is so incredibly modern and the nightclub we went to put the irish ones to shame, until the Brazilian Rap came on and ...

Part 1--Semana Santa in Brazil!
Apr 12, 2004

... At least that is the plan for now! From SALVADOR...SOUTH to...BEACHES...THEN...RIO!!!!! My stories so far: Arrived in Brasilia...was met by my favorite Brasilian friend--Lidia--who showed me her city...enjoyed lunch in a Churrascaria...enjoyed a ...

Brasília - alte Freunde und viel Regen
Feb 5, 2008

... sahen den neuen (und blutigen) Streifen mit Johnny Depp. Danach gab´s noch einen Schlummertrunk in der "Bar Brasília". Am naechsten Tag wurde dann das Wetter endlich besser. Erst wusch ich zuhause einige Kleider. Am Nachmittag ...

High Contacts
Mar 31, 2007 (5 photos)

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Going solo - Jericoacoara, Brasilia and...Home....
Sep 20, 2008

... it.  The climb back up was another matter!  Next day more people arrived, Paulo a fantastically funny guy from Brasilia (I nicknamed him Borat because his English accent was so similar it was uncanny) as well as Pablo and Marcela, a ...

Flying through Brasilia
Apr 3, 2005

With the changing of our flights, Paul and I have rerouted our trip through Brasilia with just enough layover time to "fly" through the city. In an hour and half we make it into this ultra-planned city with just enough time to see (but not visit) the ...

Cathedral of Brasília
Nov 28, 2006 (2 photos)

The Cathedral of Brasília is an expression of the architect Oscar Niemeyer. This structure seems with its glass roof to be reaching up with concrete-framed columns, having hyperbolic sections, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven. On May 30, ...

Brasilia
Jan 4, 2009 (10 photos)

Like me you could be forgiven for thinking Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's capital city but in fact it's Brasilia, a city only 48 years old and the achievement of the late president Kubitschek. Kubitschek wanted a capital city in a secure location free from ...

The Home Stretch - Amazon Next 2
Jun 4, 2008 (31 photos)

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I have seen the future!
Feb 11, 2007

... have the shape of a cross but it ended up looking like an airplane because of geographical constraints. I spent the time in Brasilia walking around a lot to all the monuments, including this pretty cathedral that looks like a rack of ribs, and the main ...

Brazil´s new capital built in 3 years in the 60´s
Dec 17, 2006 (24 photos)

At 6pm on the 11th of December I got a 25 hour bus to Brasilia, the new Capital of Brazil. Crazy as it sounds, the bus was a quarter of the airfare and only twice the time due to awkward connection of the flights. The 25 hours became 30 but I had ...

Brasília e Chapada dos Viadeiros
Mar 27, 2006 (13 photos)

It was a great pleasure to visit my special friend Alexey and his partner Hedio. Brasilia always impresses me, even though I found it a bit to square and orderly - specially after living 6 years in chaotic London! I would like to highlight that nothing ...

Mam czego chcialem
Nov 5, 2008

... , do srodka tej swiatyni gdzie miala sie na mnie zesrodkowac energia krysztalu, ale tu to jest podobno normalne (Brasilia slynie z roznych sekt, ktore upodobaly sobie to miejsce), a sama swiatynia nalezy do najczesciej odwiedzanym miejsc w stolicy. Kto ...

Dia 11 (part I) - Brasília
Nov 30, 2007 (9 photos)

... I did like the buildings on the main avenue. Dreamed by President Kubitschek and drawn by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, Brasília is split in areas according to functions: political area, shopping area, hotels area, and somewhere well behind there ...

Brasilia
Jun 15, 2005 (2 photos)

After a couple of days travelling, we reached Brasilia, official capital of Brazil since the 1960s (I think), built in the 1960s to encourage people to move away from the overpopulated south east coast into the interior. I quite liked the city, although ...

Manaus To Brasilia
May 24, 2005

Day 206 Tuesday 24/05/05 Manaus - Brasilia At breakfast we chatted to the guy next to us and it turns out that he is the President of the society of tour operators in the area! We told him our problems and he moaned about both Cristiano & Armstrong. ...

moving on
Jun 18, 2009

... incorrectly. In the end the owner told us that it was all finished except for the hydraulics problem and that we should go to Brasilia Motors, the Mercedes garage and they would pay them to fix it. And then they informed us that they would be shut from ...

The Middle of Nowhere
Dec 24, 2004 (2 photos)

... work my way back down to Rio for New Year, as Suzana and Filipe had invited me back to celebrate on the Copacabana, I went to Brasilia. An unusual stop for many, but I really wanted to see the city - the 1960s "invented" Brazilian capital. It was far away ...