The Discover.Travel Group’s Travel Consultants find the perfect beach for each client: famous and popular like Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro, or a remote insider’s tip such as Búzios, Paraty, Ilha Grande or Trancoso.

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Which Beach in Brazil will become your favorite?
Which beach type are you? The Discover.Travel Group’s Travel Consultants find the perfect beach for
you: famous and popular or a remote insider’s tip.
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – April 13, 2010 Brazil has hundreds of kilometers of beaches, which offer a huge
variety to visitors: Choose from popular city beaches such as famous Ipanema and Copacabana in Rio de
Janeiro, the beaches by stylish colonial towns developing a new chic with luxury boutique hotels, and
remote and virgin beaches where travelers can leave the world behind and indulge in the untouched
scenery. When planning travel to Brazil, travelers should know what they expect from their personal
beach of their dreams. Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover.Travel Group’s personal Travel
Consultants analyze this question with their clients and know the insider tips to find the perfect beach
for each Dream Society Traveler.
Those who like famous and popular city beaches to experience the atmosphere, meet other travelers
and local people, and combine visiting in the cultural attractions of a city with a dip in the Atlantic Ocean
will most enjoy the “Marvelous City” Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis which is situated on a peninsula with
long beaches, and Salvador da Bahia by the Bay of all Saints. In the North-East of Brazil, Natal and
Fortaleza are also great options which the Discover.Travel Group recommends to these travelers.
When the big, bustling city gets too much, Brazil offers laid-back beach towns, which are within easy
reach and are sure to further travelers’ appreciation of this stunning part of the world. In The Sydney
Morning Herald, the travel journalist Steve McKenna listed some of the beaches which the
Discover.Travel Group’s specialized Travel Consultants like to recommend to their clients.
View from Vila Deste Veranda over the Beach of Búzios.

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Buzios: Until the mid-1960s, Buzios was just a simple fishing village and a former French pirate hide-out
on a peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Then Brigitte Bardot breezed into town with her Brazilian
boyfriend and things were never the same.
Steve McKenna tells the story like this: The French actress told her friends about Buzios, who told their
friends, and it's now Brazil's most glamorous seaside resort, a kind of Latin American Saint Tropez.
Affluent Cariocas (Rio city folk) have second homes here and flood in for weekends and public holidays,
filling many of the peninsula's 20-plus beaches, up-market seafood restaurants and trendy clubs such as
Pacha and Privilege. Búzios is a mandatory stop for sail-boats from all over the world.
For travelers who stay during the week, however, it's gloriously quiet. Buzio's main cobbled street - the
Rua das Pedras (Stone Street) - features chic fashion boutiques and establishments where Bardot is,
seemingly, everywhere: on paintings and in photographs on restaurant walls, on caricatures etched into
doorways, and there is a bronze statue adorning a waterfront promenade named after her.
Búzios is close to the peaceful, secluded Azeda and Azedinha coves, where travelers can spend the best
part of two days snorkelling in calm, warm, crystal clear waters, relaxing in a deck-chair, drinking juice of
tropical fruits freshly squeezed by cheerful vendors trading out of old fishing boats. It's a world away
from the often-frantic vibe of Copacabana.
Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover.Travel Group team have visited Buzios and carefully
selected the hotels to recommend to each client: The Vila d’Este with its exclusive Italian style and
panoramic pool with scenic view of the sparkling bay is ideal for the demanding luxury traveler and
offers an especially romantic suite with private sea view Jacuzzi for Honeymoon couples. The Casas
Brancas hotel and Abracadabra Pousada are further top tips for accommodation in Búzios.
Paraty Bay Perequê River in front of Paraty
Paraty: One of the most enchanting of the old Portuguese colonial towns in Brazil, Paraty has been
dubbed "a virtual museum in a tropical paradise" because of its blend of natural and architectural
beauty located between a backdrop of misty rainforest-encrusted mountains and sparkling seas graced
with little yachts and schooners named after Pele and other famous Brazilian footballers.
Travelers can choose between hopping on one of these boats for a tour around the beautiful little
islands nearby, and exploring the gorgeous town itself. Looking back on four centuries of history, Paraty
still evokes something of a bygone feel – while at the same time featuring souvenir shops, art galleries
and cosmopolitan eateries.
In Paraty, travelers have the opportunity to stay in boutique hotels housed in old mansions built in the
18th century, which have been carefully redecorated while preserving the style of the original

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architecture, slightly rustic but providing a charming and special flair. The Discover.Travel Group’s
favourite is the Sandi Pousada.
Bay in Ilha Grande Island, surrounded by Atlantic rainforest. Breakfast at Sagu Mini Resort on Ilha Grande.
Ilha Grande: Ilha Grande (translated as the Big Island) is the perfect place to get away from it all -
although travellers do not have to endure Robinson Crusoe-like living conditions to enjoy it.
The village around the main port, Abraao, offers hotels, restaurants, and cafes. In the surroundings, Ilha
Grande offers plenty of numerous blissfully peaceful and photogenic spots and fabulous beaches, such
as the Lopes Mendes beach, considered one of the most beautiful in Brazil. A network of trails hugs both
the coastline and delves into the mountainous interior, matted with lush Atlantic rainforest. Hiding in
the undergrowth are hummingbirds, monkeys, toucans and sloths - as well as waterfalls and mangroves.
Some of the island's treats are only reachable by boat, including a couple of lagoons blessed with vivid
green and blue tones, which the Discover.Travel Group recommends to visit on a schooner tour.
Travelers can appreciate these natural beauties while enjoying exquisite accommodation and first class
service at the Sagu Mini Resort, immersed in the luxurious Atlantic Rainforest, set in front of the calm
waters of the Bay of Abraão, recalling the traditional style of a colonial Portuguese fishing village with an
intimate piazza detailed with a pavement of inlaid terracotta, and walls of hand-hewn yellow, typical of
the island, and offering its guests Massage Therapy, Sailing Excursions, Scuba Diving and Certification,
Fishing Excursions, Snorkeling, Guided Hikes and Botanical Tours, Boat Trips, Kayaking. The hotel Asalem
creates an intimate and exclusive atmosphere for its guests in only 4 suites, each opening onto a terrace
and landscape that resembles a tranquil Japanese garden, situated directly on the spectacular Bay of
Abraäo where the ocean offers rare, intimate glimpses of sea creatures such as starfish, crustaceans and
turtles, as well as abundant schools of fish.
Trancoso: The beach of Trancoso in the South of Bahia is the one of the latest insider tips, praised by the
New York Times “Unspoiled Beach Fit for the Chic” and described as “a former fishing village that has
turned into a super-trendy getaway for Brazilians and fashionable jet-setters willing to pay St.-Tropez
prices for rustic accommodations on an unspoiled beach.
Situated on the palm-fringed coast of Brazil’s Bahia state, Trancoso still looks like the hippie getaway
that first made the town popular 20 years ago, with its uneven cobblestone streets and dirt roads.”
Recently, Trancoso is experiencing a swirl of Brazilian and international celebrities who have jetted there
in recent months to party. The New York Times observed that “In January, Rodrigo Hilbert and his wife,
Fernanda Lima, both Brazilian television actors, were spotted dancing at the Pink Elephant beach club.

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Francesca Versace and Dimitri Mussard, an heir to the Hermès fortune, party-hopped in Trancoso over
the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. And the Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto tied the knot there in
February in an informal wedding with 50 guests, which was fawningly documented by the Brazilian
gossip site Glamurama.
And then there are the regulars, bold-faced names like Naomi Campbell, Gisele Bündchen and Diane von
Furstenberg, who rent or own more secluded summer houses up the beach.”
The Etnia Trancoso and Estrela Dagua are only two examples of exquisite accommodation options in
Trancoso, recommended by the Discover.Travel Group; the Terravista Golf Course is one of the most
enchanting and challenging golf courses in South America, located on a cliff high above the sea.
Stylish Beach Restaurants in Trancoso Pool at Vilas de Trancoso
There are many more beach towns in Brazil, each one enchanting visitors with their own unique flair,
from luxurious and chic to rustic and adventurous. Amongst the top 10 Brazil beaches recommended by
the Discover.Travel Group’s travel consultants are furthermore: the island Fernando de Noronha with
crystalline waters and an exuberance of corals, dolphins, lobsters and colorful tropical fish, Praia do
Forte where the Tivoli Ecoresort is the best accommodation option, Taipus de Fora on Maraú with the
exclusive Kiaroa Resort, the surfers’ paradise Itacaré where the Discover.Travel Group’s clients enjoy
staying at the Txai Resort, as well as Porto de Galinhas and Jericoacoara.
For further information on Brazil and South and Central American travel destinations, services, hotels
and contact with a specialized travel consultant please visit the Discover.Travel Group’s websites
http://www.Discover.Travel, http://www.DiscoverBrazil.com, http://www.DiscoverSouthAmerica.Travel
and http://www.DiscoverCentralAmerica.Travel.
Recent accomplishments by Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover.Travel Group:
• 2008 Ulysses Award for Innovation in Tourism Enterprises from the UNWTO (United Nations World
Tourism Organization),
• World Travel Award 2009 for South America’s Leading Travel Management Company,
• World Travel Award 2009 for South America’s Leading Travel Agency,
• Managing Partner Robert Phillips was elected ASTA Chapter President for Brazil.
• Selected by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism as an Affiliate Member of the United Nations World
Tourism Organization.
• Authenticated by the Tralliance Corporation and the .Travel Registry.

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