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Armacao de Buzios Travel Guide

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Armação de Búzios (often shortened to just Búzios) is a coastal city in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

Buzios beach
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Buzios beach

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Get in

Buzios is 176km from Rio de Janeiro and 600km from São Paulo. Buses connect the city to those capitals and neighboring cities (especially Cabo Frio)

Get around

See

  • Beaches - Azeda, Azedinha, João Fernandes, Forninho, etc.
  • Rua das Pedras - restaurants, shopping and nightlife

Do

  • Boat trips through the beaches

A 3 hr schooner trip goes round the beaches and out to an island. It cost 30 Real in May 2006

  • Scuba diving

Buy

Eat

Buzios is notorious for its sophisticaded (and accordingly expensive) restaurants.

Drink

Sleep

Buzios offers about hundred places to stay. Some five or six hotels with good or excellent international standard, over fifty "Pousadas", and many guest houses. "Pousada" is the traditional countryside Mini-Hotel, mostly family run, with average 8 to 20 rooms. In Buzios, most of them offer good quality, with rates from US$ 25 to US$ 150 per double room and per night including breakfast. Rates will go up by at least 50% between end december and early march when Brazilians are taking their holidays. For a good selection, go for http://www.buzios.com.br or http://www.buziosdirect.com.br - the latter one being the official site of the Buzios Hotel Association.

Get out

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