Before travelling
All you need to know before travelling!
All you need to know before travelling!
• The wonderful Pantanal photo book made by the local photographer Mike Bueno,
• Cachaça « do Centro Geodesico », available in Cuiaba or Chapada dos Guimarães where it is produced. A good amber cachaça.
• The « Louvada » beer. This is the only pure malt artisanal manufactured beer from Cuiaba. Since November 2015 only, it is worth a try.
• The « Caipirinha » wooden set with its toucan or macaw-shaped cocktail sticks,
• Pantanal’s honey,
• Cerrado’s candied fruits,
• Guarana powder,
• Artisanal manufactured hammocks,
• « Coqueiro » brand knives,
• T-shirts and clothes of the Pantanal region,
• Pantaneiros cowboys hat,
• Keychains and macaws-shaped magnets.
• On Brazilian domestic flights the weight for checked luggage allowed is 23kg (Be aware that you may have to pay an extra fee to be able to check your luggage in case you have bought a base fare plane ticket)
• The cabin luggage weight allowed is 10Kg
• All the forbidden objects for the international flights are also forbidden here except small bottles of water.
This information is from January 2023 and might have changed up to this moment. Please access your flight company website to confirm this info before travelling.
• Some of them offer a laundry service but it is a little bit expensive as you have to pay per piece to be washed
• When they have it, the pousadas offer free wi-fi access, but be aware that some places don’t have internet at all.
• The electric sockets are 110V, you may rarely find some 220V in some places.
The exchange rate is always changing but it is usually around:
• €1 = R$5,00 – R$5,40
• US$1 = R$4,80 – R$5,10
• £1 = R$6,00 – R$6,30
• At the airport
• Inside the Varzea Grande shopping mall (next to the airport) at Parcam bureau de change.
• In Cuiaba, inside the Goiabeiras shopping you will find a Western Union point
• British friends, at the moment U.K citizens can normally enter Brazil without a visa as a tourist (it could change after Brexit). Your passport should be valid for a minimum period of 6 months from the date of entry in Brazil.
• American, Canadian, Australian and New-Zealander friends, you will need :
- An Original, signed US, Canada, Australia, New-Zealand passport with at least 6 months of remaining validity.
- One blank page required for entry stamp.
- A tourist visa is no longer required.
- Copy of round trip tickets or itinerary. We strongly recommend you not to purchase your plane ticket to Brazil before having your application approved.
- It is also good to have a copy of the International Certificate of Vaccination (ICV) for yellow fever is required.
• Embassies links :
- https://br.usembassy.gov/visas/
- http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/brazil-bresil/index.aspx?lang=eng
- http://brazil.embassy.gov.au/
- https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countries-and-regions/latin-america/brazil/new-zealand-embassy/
• For all our other friends we invite you to inform yourselves on the official Federal Brazilian website:
- http://www.brazilgovnews.gov.br/welcome-to-brazil/coming-to-brazil
• It is strongly recommended to do the yellow fever and Hepatitis A vaccines
• Ckeck if you are up to date against Tetanus, Hepatitis B, Diphteria, Pertussis and Polio vaccines
• It is also good to do the rabies vaccine
• No needs of Malaria treatment for Pantanal but if you are planning to go to the Amazon rainforest and other South American countries during your trip, it would be then recommended.
Informations only. If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to ask your doctor
Find all the necessary information so that you can visit one of the most beautiful places of Brazil.