Bus:Salvador / São Paulo / Rio Janeiro to Rio de Contas

Bus: São Paulo to the Chapda

Bus: Salvador to the site

Flights: Sao Paulo - Salvador

Sao Paulo to Rio das Contas

Every day 7 am and 11 am from the Tiete bus station
Bus company: Novo Horizonte tel: (011) 6221 0741
Cost: R$104,50
Duration: 24 hours

This is a basic bus no air conditioning

Salvador to Rio do Contas

daily at 21:10 (arriving in Rio do Contas 9:10 am)
Bus company: Novo Horizonte tel: (071) 450-2224
Cost: R$57
Good to book in advance

Rio do Contas to Arapiranga - every hour from 7 am to 11 am

Nara - brazilcaravan@yahoo.com - 24/2/2003

A great big group of us are filling up the march 2nd sunday night bus to Rio de Contas from salvador. The bus company is Novo horizonte http://www.novohorizonte.com.br and it is the only direct bus to rio de contas from Salvador. There are alternative routes going through Victoria da Conquista, then to Brumado.

Novo-Horizonte goes staight to Rio de contas from Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro. Their number in Sao Paolo in the Tiete bus station is (11) 6221- 0741
There is a more luxurious non-direct bus going to Brumado, leaving at 7am(7:00) every day. There are five buses per day leaving from Brumado to rio de contas. There is also a direct bus to Rio de Contas from Sao paolo leaving at 11am the bus ride is 24 hrs +/-. costs 104.48 reals.

From Salvador there is a direct bus with the company novo-horizonte phone (71) 450 2224 leaving daily at 9:10pm (21:10) arriving in rio de contas at 9:10am costs 57 reals.
Then there is a bus from rio de contas to Arapiranga leaving every hour from 7am till 11am. The number for Novo Horizonte in Rio de Contas is (77) 475 2061 and in Brumado is (75) 441 7406 and Victoria da Conquista (77) 424-5050
I did some reserch and found this good site in portugese about rio de contas http://www2.uol.com.br/mochilabrasil/riodecontascidade.shtml

Rainbow Gathering Mission from São Paulo

Galactic Bus to Chapada Diamantina.
Departs from SP on 11/03/03 (Red Self-Existing Earth)
Arrives back in SP on 22/03/03 (Red Electric Moon).

If interested, please confirm at (11) 5055 1000

From Moddy Teeni - moddy@moddy.net to brazilcaravan@yahoogroups.com - 22/1/2003

Here are the best details I can find so far about going to the site.

From Salvador you take a bus to Seabra. The bus leaves from Rodoviario at 23:30 or 07:00, but you need to book in advance. The bus takes about 8 hours, and it passes through Lençois if you want to break your trip in a really beautiful place. Lençois to Seabra is about an hour trip, and there is minibus leaving at 07:00, and also
buses at other times.

From Seabra take a bus or mini to Piatã. It is about 100km. Buses go at 03:00 (yes) and 15:30 from the bus station, and there are minibuses at 11:00 amd 13:00 from the center of town (Praça).

In Piatã you look for Aninha´s house in Plaça Do Juís. It seems like everybody knows her. If she´s not at home, read the instructions on the door and walk for about two hours. Not advisable at night, though doable (I did it, and it took almost four hours).

There's also a road that goes there, and someone may take you there for some amount of money. It may be a bit chilly at night, so bring a pullover.

Very important: change money in Salvador. There is no money change in Seabre, and in Piatã and Lençois the rates are awful. There´s an ATM in Lençois for VISA only, and it usually doesn't work. Internet in Lençois is very expensive, but very cheap in Seabra.

That´s about it. Love and Light, Moddy.

From Alexis Anastasiou - vjalexis@raveon.com.br to brazilcaravan@yahoogroups.com - 01/2/2003

Prices are for tickets from Sao Paulo to Salvador -
(you can buy tickets from the websites)
www.tam.com.br
www.varig.com.br
A one way ticket is around US$ 150 if you reserve/buy beforehand. Both of the above companies offer very good service (food etc), frequent direct flights and are usually not very cheap. This company seems to have a comercial flight to Lençois, near the
gathering, but only on Saturdays and you must be willing to spend $$$$

www.vasp.com.br
A one way ticket is around US$ 90 if you reserve/buy beforehand
www.voegol.com.br
Both of the above companies offer not so good service (no food), not so frequent flights (lot´s of stop-overs) and usually cheaper flights one way ticket is around US$ 80 if you reserve/buy beforehand (pay attention to flight time before you buy a ticket in these
companies or you may get stuck in a plane for 5-6 hours on a flight that should only take 90 minutes)

CHARTER FLIGHTS
Even cheaper for the brave ones - you must be 100% sure that you won't
change your mind about departure dates... Theses companies have no websites that I know of...
FLY: 55 (11) 3259-6922 SP-SALVADOR R$ ???
BRA: 55 (11) 3017-5454 SP-SALVADOR R$ 284

Have a nice, safe, loving journey,
Alexis

VJ Alexis - aka Alexis Anastasiou
Repentismo visual/funky-vídeo-performance/psy-pós-modernismo
(55) 11 5034 4673 - www.vjalexis.com.br - vjalexis@raveon.com.br
São Paulo Brasil