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Brazilian Travel Club, is associated with some of Brazil's premier travel professionals.
The best kept vacation secret in the world is Brazil. Whether you enjoy nature, the beach,
fishing or scuba diving, Brazil is breathtaking. From the wonders of the Amazon basin, to
the beaches of the Northeast, the majesty of Itaipú, the roar of Iguaçu at
"Garagantua del Diablo", to the underground lakes of the interior, the Pantanal
or the dry weather of the Cerrado, Ipanema; the variety is awesome. Most important are the people - they are as diverse as the
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| Then there is the food
and drinks: Feijoada, Churrasco, Vatapá, Moqueca, a nice cafézinho after lunch, a
refreshing Caipirinha. Then there is Futebol! Carnival in Rio! What are you waiting for?
The best time to visit is the US winter months. From now on, all sorts of travel in Brazil -- for pleasure,
education, sport, business, adventure or pure escape -- will be more enjoyable than you
thought possible.
The first company to be set up in Rio Grande do
Norte, Brazil, to international standards, ABTC offers top quality, concerning equipment
and services, "soft adventures" on a comfortable basis, and deems to serve a
wide range of clients, not only the young and athletic.
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In the United States, ABTC is
associated with Incentive Connection Travel, Inc., located in Phoenix, Arizona. ICT is the
largest professional Independent Travel Agent host agency in the world.
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| ABTC's distinction on
the Internet is that we are backed by experienced travel consultants that have traveled
the country from Amapa to Rio Grande do Sul -- not a faceless computer booking engine that
can only react based on the tables in its database. Our consultant and specialist staff are experts in leisure
and vacation travel. They are professional consultants and experienced tour operators,
putting themselves above the mere order-takers of typical travel agencies and phone banks.
You will be traveling with a company that knows
the best local guides and experts. Best of all you'll be traveling with Brazilians
who are happy to share the kind of knowledge and details you'd share with visitors to your
own home.
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BRAZIL 2000 
"Our staff is on duty 24 hours a day! Nothing
interferes with our sworn duties to our clients." said Capt. Don before he
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Our personally
selected, world-wide network of local travel operators works like a charm when you want
custom travel. A personal guide in the Pantanal or Amazon? English speaking driver in Rio?
Translator for the business ventures? Most agents abandoned this level of service 50 years
ago, but you can still find it as an ABTC Member.
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We screen thousands of
offers to bring you our best finds. Our ABTC - Andetur Brazilian Travel Club and Select
Investment and Vacation Rental Properties programs offer you the finest in light or
serious adventure tours and reasonable accommodations with special benefits available only
through our members. Our company is a full service agency offering travel packages to the
island of Fernando de Noronha as well as airplane trips, car and dune buggy rentals.
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We can offer tours to
visit the "top eco-destinations" in Brazil and abroad, like: the Fernando de
Noronha Island (a divers, surfers and birdwatchers paradise), Pantanal (the biggest
seasonally flooded lowland savanna in the world with an incredible fauna), the Amazon Rain
Forest, river boat tours and, in the south, Iguaçu Falls, among others.
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We prefer to operate
with small groups (2 to 12 people - bigger groups will be sub-divided into 12 guests'
groups with 1 guide to each group) as we wish to provide personal attention to each
client. We take great pride in tailoring each trip to meet your individual needs and
interests. Our itineraries are designed with exploration and discovery in mind with a
balance of structure and free time.
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ABTC operates air
conditioned vans, minibuses, buses and four wheel-drive vehicles. The choice of vehicle
varies according to the destination and the number of people involved.
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Please call us if you
are interested in tour schedules or programs other than that advertised! Come on an
Adventure with Us!
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| NORTHEAST BRAZIL |
| Internationally known
for its beautiful beaches and sand dunes, the Brazilian Northeast is a region with its own
identity, that holds many strange secrets for the discerning tourist in its little-known
interior. We are a result of a mixture of many races and cultures ... a sincere smile,
primitive fishing rafts, "forró" (For All) dancing, accordion music, leather
goods, lace handicrafts, hammocks, and other goods which are characteristic of the region.
Also, unique are the culinary delights made of flour, tapioca, brown sugar and coconut
sweets, sun-dried beef, lobsters, crabs, coconuts, cashew nuts and regional fruits. Cold,
pollution, traffic, stress ... you'll quickly forget! |
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| Natal, located in the
center of the Northeast coast, is the ideal starting point for those who want to get to
know this region. Genipabu, Pipa, Fernando de Noronha, João Pessoa, Recife, Olinda and
Fortaleza are all accessible from this city. The beaches of white and warm sands are
synonymous with "carefree" and "recreation". |
Known as "the city
of sun", Natal offers the most for tourists in the northeast. The temperature is
comfortable... an average of 26º C... with a constant breeze and sunny days. According to
NASA, the air here is considered to be the most pure in the Americas.
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Visit the beaches along
the south coast, and see the "Largest Cashew Tree in the World", take a dip in
the natural pools of Pirangi, enjoy dolphin-watching at Tabatinga beach,
"giboiando" (relaxing) in the lagoons of Camurupim, riding jet-skis at Arituba
Lake and WOW, if you're still alive, exploring the cave of Pedra Ôca (The Hollow Rock).
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| Take a dune buggy or
jeep ride along the northern coastline until you reach Cabo de São Roque (Cape of Saint
Roque), the part of Brazil closest to Africa. In Genipabu, 30 km from Natal, we have the Pousada Villa do
Sol, which offers a clean, relaxing atmosphere, right on the beach.
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| In Natal we have the
Manary Praia Hotel, whose owner is a professional guide providing escorted ecological and
cultural tours. His service - Manary Ecotours - specializes in excursions to archeological
and paleothological sites, national parks, colonial architecture, deserted beaches and
Northeast Brazilian culture. |
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| OUR NEWEST ADVENTURE -
MOTORCYCLE TOURS One our
most exciting projects for the new millennium is escorted motorcycle tours through out the
northeast from Bahia to Ceara, the type of tour which has become very popular in the USA,
Canada, and Europe.
The package would include. rental, windshield,
saddlebag, t-bag, companion seat and backrest, fuel, mileage, liability / physical damage
insurance, 6 - 9 nights hotels, meals inroute, airport transfers, daily itineraries, full
tour rider-escort, max group 6 riders, with 6 passengers.
For dates and full schedules, please contact us.
If you enjoy exploring
on a motorcycle...
This is an experience
you will treasure for
years to come! |
 Capt Don |
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Similar tours: Pancho Villa in Mexico Inca-Moto in Peru |
 
 
PARTNERS
WANTED! - for various tourism related projects
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NOTE: (details) - The hotels that we will use
offer three star accommodation and have been chosen for their hospitality and ability to
welcome guests at the end of a day's riding, with showers and comfortable rooms.
The route has been chosen to offer open touring roads designed for fast riding, winding
country-lanes, a 1000 miles + of deserted hard packed sand beaches, and side trips that
will test your concentration. From the sweeping mountains of Pernabuco to the challenge of
riding along some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, we aim to show you some of
the best motorcycling Brazil has to offer.
10 Days 9 nights. Several departures planned in 1999. Inquire now!
Groups will be kept to six bikes/ten persons and our simple route-finder system ensures
that we all stay together.
Baggage will be moved each day by panel van to be
at the hotel when we arrive and there is plenty of time allocated to rest stops for
refreshments, lunch, sightseeing and photographs. Persons not riding, but who want to make
the tour, can make arrangements to ride in the chase van.
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AMAZON
JUNGLE AND RIVER BOAT TOURS
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We offer a program of 26
package adventure tours in Brazilian Amazonia: riverboats, jungle lodges, fishing,
birdwatching, diving, Yanomami Indians, trekking, canoeing, climbing, Gran Sabana,
Pantanal etc.  To ORDER THESE BOOKS!
Click on Image.
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| In the Amazon the
weather is always changing and there are special things to see and do at different times
of the year. Normally the rainy season from January to July is the best time to visit for
boat travel and canoeing- the weather is cooler, and there are short daily rain showers.
The dry season is between August and December. It may be hotter and drier then but it is a
good time for trekking and fishing, and there are beautiful white sand beaches along the
Rio Negro to enjoy. |
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 Capt. Don Reid |
Guided fishing tours
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 Floating
fish lodge in the amazon |
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THE PANTANAL
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To the south of the
Amazon basin in Brazil lies one of the world’s least known but most extraordinary
natural areas: The Pantanal. It is an enormous grassland covering over 89,000 square
miles, the approximate area of Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland combined. In some
ways it is comparable to the savannas of Africa with its vast prairies divided by lazy
meandering rivers forested at the waters edge. The Pantanal is also teeming with life.
Along the rivers among the trees there are clouds of birds that chatter and cavort in
rookeries of thousands of nests. There are countless caiman [South America's crocodiles]
lounging and snoozing on the beaches in full view and rather unconcerned about our
presence. Herds of 150 pound capybara, giant guinea-pig-like rodents, graze near the
waters edge pausing only to glance at us with their slightly timid looks. Roaming the sea
of grass from horizon to horizon is a fantastic collection of mammals like Giant Anteater,
Jaguar, Marsh Deer and wild Peccaries.The
wildlife of the Pantanal is spectacular and our stay there is in a comfortable lodge with
a very well thought through natural history program. An extraordinary place that everyone
interested in nature must sometime in their lifetime visit. |
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While at the lodge we
spend our days exploring the small rivers and streams that drain this vast wetlands. There
are excursions across the broad savanna by four wheel drive vehicle. A number of our
passengers have been able to walk through the knee high grass to closely observe Giant
Anteaters with their three foot long snouts that have a tiny mouth at the end. Expect to
see clouds of bright pink spoonbills, hundreds of large caiman lying on the shore, howler
monkeys and spider monkeys cavorting in the tree tops and herds of the worlds largest
rodent, the capybara, lounging on the river banks.
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This trip consists of
travel by plane to south central Brazil and drive for another 4-6 hours on a raised
roadway across and enormous Savannah. While at the lodge guests spend their days exploring
by aluminum skiff the small rivers and streams that drain this vast wetlands. There are
also drives across the vast grassland by four wheeled drive vehicles and optional
horseback riding. Visitors can expect to see clouds of bright pink spoonbills, hundreds of
large caiman lying on the shore, howler monkeys and spider monkeys cavorting in the tree
tops and herds of the worlds largest rodent, the capybara, lounging on the river banks.
The accommodations are very comfortable and the staff professional and organized
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The trips listed above
highlight only a portion of our Brazilian 'soft' adventure tours |
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| From the high peaks of
the Andean mountains to the lush Amazon rainforest, South American Expeditions (SAE)
invites you on the expedition of a lifetime. |
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Expeditions is a woman-owned company offering quality tours throughout the year.
These tours are arranged and conducted by the owner, Mili Sangama or a qualified SAE
representative. Mili Sangama is a native of Peru and has explored the country
extensively guiding numerous adventure trips. |
| You will be traveling
with a company that knows the best local guides and experts. Best of all you'll be
traveling with Peruvians who are happy to share the kind of knowledge and details you'd
share with visitors to your own home. |
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fulfilling as possible our groups are limited to a maximum of fifteen participants.
By traveling with a small group you will have access to isolated areas that
traditional tourists rarely enter. This also allows for the greatest intimacy with
the locals whom you will be meeting in their work settings and their homes. |
| We take great pride in
tailoring each trip to meet your individual needs and interests. Our itineraries are
designed with exploration and discovery in mind with a balance of structure and free time. |
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| We also have other
tour operators serving these areas. We try to match the operator with the client on
a personal basis with the objectives of achieving his or her personal wishes. |
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- Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands
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Outlined above with reference to the Amazon
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Mili has guided dozens of groups for women only,
and she's considered a pioneer in women's adventure tours into the heart of the
rainforest. Her knowledge of the jungle has made these trips unforgettable
experiences. Women are encouraged to explore their special interests by
following customized itineraries.
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June 11, 2000
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