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OTHER INTERESTING TOURS
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Curitiba City Tour
Departure: (Monday) 10:00am – Grand Hotel Rayon
Duration: 4 hours.
Tour: A comfortable motor coach visit of the main tourist
attractions of Curitiba.
Stops: Botanical Garden, Wire Opera House, Forest of the
Pope, Tangui Park, Tanguá Park, Felicidade Saint,
University the Environment and Passaúna.
Panoramic Tour: Civic Center, Oscar Niemeyer Museum,
Historical Sector and Street Flowers.
Include: Transport and tourist guide English language
Exclude: Lunch
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The Curitiba city tour on Monday (Sept, 24) leaves 10am from Grand Hotel Rayon and
it takes about 4 hours. The registration will be on site and only cash will be accepted. It
costs R$ 50 per person. |
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Vila Velha
City of Ponta Grossa
Departure: (Wednesday) 08:30am - Grand Hotel Rayon
Tour: Tour to Vila Velha State Park, with its sandstones
formations that date from the carboniferous period (approx
340 millions years). The itinerary the deep natural pits
(furnas) with depths of to 100m the Golden Lagoon with its
crystalline water)
Obs.: Tuesday the park is closed for visitation.
Include: Transport, Ticket to park and tourist guide English
language.
Exclude: Lunch |
| The Vila Velha tour on Wednesday (Sept, 26) leaves 8:30am from Grand Hotel Rayon
and should be back in Curitiba by 1:30pm. The registration will be on site and only cash
will be accepted. It costs R$ 70 per person. |
All these interesting tours were thought as spouse programs. However, it will be open
for all attendees as well.
Jardineira City Tour
Another interesting and cheap way to visit the main touristic
attractions in Curitiba is possible by getting the touristic bus - called Jardineira -
because of its wide glass area. You can buy your ticket with the bus driver and it costs
about R$15. The schedule and places where you can get the bus will be available on
the conference registration desk.
The tour covers around 20 interesting points in the city and takes around 2 hours. The
tourist gets off for three stops in total, getting to visit three places a little bit longer and
then take another bus and go on with the tour. Some info in English about Curitiba can
be found at IPPUC website.
Iguassu Falls
The Iguassu Falls are located in the Iguassu National Park, at the
border of Brazil and Argentina. In a horseshoe form, 2.700 meters wide between the
two contries, the Iguassu Falls fill the visitors’s view with the spray of 72 meter-high
falls – the number of them varies between 159 and 300, depending on the flow of the
Iguassu river. The panorama overhelms the onlooker with a sensation of fright,
fascination and respect for the perfection of nature. A visit to the Falls and the contact
with wildlife and the spectacle of the waters awake an emotion that many hope to
experience once in a lifetime. More information will be available on the site. However, it
is better to buy the tickets in advance. There are two airlines flying Curitiba to Foz do
Iguaçu:
GOL (www.voegol.com.br) and
TAM (www.tam.com.br).
The round trip with GOL costs about R$450 and you can buy your e-ticket on-line. Foz
do Iguaçu has several hotels, but we could indicate the Rafain Palace Hotel.
When visiting Iguassu Falls, please consider spending two days to visit both sides of
the falls (Brazilian and Argentinean) and Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant, the largest in
production energy in the world. All the hotels in the city of Foz do Iguaçu can provide
on-site info and services for these tours.
We will provide additional information on the conference website and on-site during the
conference. However, this tour must be organized by yourself.
Update:
13.08.2007
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