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/><title>Esvaziando a Mochila | Blog de Viagem e Turismo</title><subtitle type="html">Viajar é pra você, sim! Relatos, fotos e dicas de viagem para quem precisa de um empurrãozinho pra sair pelo mundo.Viaje bem, gastando pouco. </subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/725385193183229463/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Tiago Caramuru</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cChHeOFLDoU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADlc/0Ph1PmMgdC0/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>313</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/EsvaziandoAMochila" /><feedburner:info uri="esvaziandoamochila" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>EsvaziandoAMochila</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0MARXk8fSp7ImA9WhBbGE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725385193183229463.post-6643607140086282832</id><published>2013-05-17T17:10:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2013-05-17T17:10:44.775-03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-17T17:10:44.775-03:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Europa" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lisboa" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Relatos" /><title>Lisboa: a Fábrica do café de verdade</title><content type="html">&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Pastéis de Belém. Fonte: http://&lt;span class="irc_hd irc_iis"&gt;&lt;a class="irc_hol irc_itl" data-ved="0CAcQjB0wADgP" href="http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=i&amp;amp;source=images&amp;amp;cd=&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;docid=SORk3a6bHYSeJM&amp;amp;tbnid=gSisViSbtSK9xM:&amp;amp;ved=0CAcQjB0wADgP&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flisboadiarios.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fantiga-fabrica-dos-pasteis-de-belem.html&amp;amp;ei=royWUde3EIq68wS9tIDQCQ&amp;amp;psig=AFQjCNEuexskDF7v2GMB-n9Gz0AE2mzJnw&amp;amp;ust=1368907310317910"&gt;&lt;span class="irc_ho"&gt;lisboadiarios.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="irc_dim"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Quando eu lembro da viagem que fiz pra Lisboa, em 2007, parece que foi ontem. Mas quando vejo as fotos, me sinto muito mais velho que os 6 anos que passaram. &lt;br /&gt;
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O primeiro sinal é visível: pés de galinha e o segundo queixo, que eu não costumava levar naquela época. Depois, é lembrar que aquelas fotos só estão no meu computador, agora, porque eu ia com o meu cartão de memória 256MB até uma Lan House, transferia as fotos pra um PC e queimava um CD-ROM. Quanto vocabulário obsoleto pra meia dúzia de imagens. Smartphone era coisa novíssima, pra poucos, e check-in era termo exclusivo de aeroporto.&lt;br /&gt;
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Aquilo foi o começo de tudo pra mim, a viagem que mudou minha vida e me deu o clique "preciso arrumar um jeito de viver pra viajar". Que sorte ter sido&amp;nbsp;Lisboa. Ainda não achei um lugar que nem aquele e sempre falo de lá com todo o fanatismo que posso.&lt;br /&gt;
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Então, uma pessoa muito querida foi à Portugal, gostou das minhas indicações e, na volta, veio mostrar as fotos. Em uma delas vi que, ao lado da Fábrica dos Pastéis de Belém - a cafeteria quase bicentenária que criou a receita do doce mais famoso de Portugal, o pastel de nata -, estava instalada uma novíssima Starbucks, com muito mais movimento que vizinha tradicional.&lt;br /&gt;
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Achei estranho. Nada contra o take away coffee americano, mas uma cafeteria que serve café de 300 ml se dar tão bem, justo ali? Não precisa de supersize por causa do super-preço. Café é café. Se não, imagina só o dia que os EUA lançarem uma tequila que faça sucesso.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;F'ábrica dos Pastéis de Belém. Fonte: &lt;span class="irc_hd irc_iis"&gt;&lt;a class="irc_hol irc_itl" data-ved="0CAcQjB0wAA" href="http://perlavitafl.blogspot.com/2011/09/pastel-de-belem-em-bh.html"&gt;&lt;span class="irc_ho"&gt;http://&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="irc_hd irc_iis"&gt;&lt;a class="irc_hol irc_itl" data-ved="0CAcQjB0wAA" href="http://perlavitafl.blogspot.com/2011/09/pastel-de-belem-em-bh.html"&gt;&lt;span class="irc_ho"&gt;perlavitafl.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="irc_dim"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Voltando à 2007, lembro que o guichê da estação de trem me viu com tanta caixa de doce quando eu voltava dos Pastéis de Belém, que até me perguntou qual era a publicidade que eles tinham no Brasil. Eu falei que era porque Pastéis de Belém, só ali. O resto era pastel de nata.&lt;br /&gt;
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Naquela época, a Starbucks ainda não tinha erguido o neón verde com a mulher descabelada que ofusca o mosaico na calçada à frente da "Fábrica".&lt;br /&gt;
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Hoje, pro simpatissíssimo funcionário da companhia de trens, eu falaria que, mais que a receita original de um dos doces mais queridos pelos brasileiros, o segredo é que a Fábrica dos Pastéis de Belém ainda serve boas &lt;i&gt;bicas&lt;/i&gt;. O resto é café de copão.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Compre seu ticket para Lisboa e milhares de outros destinos no &lt;a href="http://www.momondo.pt/voos/lis/voos-baratos-lisboa.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Momondo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Mais sobre Lisboa:&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/09/lisboa-onde-ficar.html"&gt;Lisboa: onde ficar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/10/por-que-lisboa-tem-que-estar-no-seu.html"&gt;10 motivos pra incluir Lisboa no seu roteiro pela Europa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2009/11/guia-de-viagem-em-portugal.html"&gt;Português, um idioma quase igual ao nosso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/08/os-caminhos-de-lisboa.html"&gt;Os caminhos de Lisboa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/06/o-rossio-em-lisboa.html"&gt;O Rossio, em Lisboa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://esvaziandoamochila.blogspot.com/2009/11/hora-do-almoco-em-portugal.html"&gt;Portugal: hora da janta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;span id="goog_551737570"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2009/11/estadio-da-luz-lisboa.html"&gt;Estádio da Luz, o estádio do Benfica, em Lisboa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="goog_551737571"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/09/informacao-liboeta-mais-completa.html"&gt;Informação lisboeta, a mais completa&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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O legal de&amp;nbsp;Barcelona é que&amp;nbsp;todos os bairros têm seu calçadão. O &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Barri Gótic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; e o &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Raval&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; dividem Las Ramblas, embora o segundo tenha sua própria Rambla - menor, menos genérica e com muito mais personalidade. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Ribera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, ao leste, é cortado pela Carrer de la Princesa e suas fachadas de lojinhas centenárias de lado a lado e, o &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Born&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, tem o Passeig del Born que, cheio de barzinhos, se torna muito mais respeitável após o cair da noite.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Barceloneta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, já na costa, se dá ao luxo de ter dois deles: o Passeig de Joan Borbó, com vista para o porto, e o calçadão propriamente dito, de frente pro mar. Mesmo o &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;L'Eixample&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, não tão antigo quanto o resto da cidade, mas nem tão novo assim que não possa ser chamado de cidade velha, tem o seu centro de gravidade, que é o Paseig de Grácia, onde estão as melhores casas de Gaudí (mais comentadas &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html"&gt;neste outro post aqui&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;ortiços d&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;o &lt;/span&gt;Bairro Gótico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Até a fachada da sapataria tem seu charme na Barcelona velha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Como bons calçadões, todos eles têm dezenas de mesinhas espalhadas, de todas as formas e tamanhos. Uma pena que quase nenhuma delas tenha escapado de um fenômeno que vem afetando todas as cidades mais queridas da Europa: a &lt;em&gt;cerquização&lt;/em&gt; das mesas de calçada. A preocupação com segurança em Barcelona é um pouco maior, dizem, por causa dos pequenos furtos que acontecem todos os dias. Eu não acredito que seja em quantidade maior que na Itália ou na França, a não ser pelo fato&amp;nbsp;que, na Espanha, as mesinhas ficam pra fora mais tempo: só sai pra jantar antes das 9 da noite quem não gosta de companhia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pra mim, que sempre tive hábitos tardios, não podia ser melhor. Outra vantagem de Barcelona: a partir de fevereiro, já dá pra visitar só com uma&amp;nbsp;jaqueta leve. E de dia você talvez nem precise. É só pra noite mesmo, quando dá aquela esfriadinha que só ajuda o vinho tinto a&amp;nbsp;descer melhor.&lt;br /&gt;
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De bairro em bairro, de rua a rua, de tapa em tapa: é fácil enxergar o charme e o romantismo de Barcelona.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Cidade Velha - Raval &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt; Barri Gótic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt; Born &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Ribera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Você sempre está bem localizado em Barcelona. Se, por acaso, acabar num lugar mais ou menos, vai ter algo bom a cinco minutos de caminhada ou a 10 de transporte público. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Adendo: seguindo dica da Patrícia, do &lt;a href="http://turomaquia.com/indice-tudo-sobre-barcelona/"&gt;Turomaquia&lt;/a&gt; (O BLOG a ser visitado por qualquer pessoa querendo ir à Espanha), comprei o T-10, ticket com 10 viagens em qualquer modalidade de transporte público, logo no aeroporto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A verdade é que separar os bairros dessa região é muito difícil. As avenidassas que deixam os limites físicos bem claros são as mesmas que esclarecem que, há não muito tempo, esses bairros eram o&amp;nbsp; mesmo. A&amp;nbsp;alma da cidade está ali. Com todo respeito que o resto da cidade merece, aquilo é Barcelona. As catedrais e os restos de cidade medieval, com ruelas que desembocam em praças enormes dominadas por um monumento ao centro - como a Plaça Reial ou a Plaça St Jaume, fazem qualquer caminhada no Barri Gótic liberar a imaginação para tentar adivinhar tudo que já aconteceu por ali. Na Plaça Santa Maria, ao pé da basílica de mesmo nome, há tudo que é necessário: a meia luz, os artistas de rua, a igrejona ao fundo e a renúncia total à pressa. Todo mundo dividindo mesas tão juntas, que é difícil saber a qual dos vários &lt;em&gt;tapas-bar&lt;/em&gt; da praça elas pertencem.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_aC6c8SmAt0/UYpMxAJeCNI/AAAAAAAAD4c/iVafYvi8ov4/s1600/barcelona_76.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_aC6c8SmAt0/UYpMxAJeCNI/AAAAAAAAD4c/iVafYvi8ov4/s400/barcelona_76.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Cantor de rua se prepara para começar apresentação&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8RloO48Jvck/UYpMWBIzHnI/AAAAAAAAD38/3RNWL-qH6_E/s1600/barcelona_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8RloO48Jvck/UYpMWBIzHnI/AAAAAAAAD38/3RNWL-qH6_E/s400/barcelona_3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Farmácias centenárias pontilham o Bairro Gótico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QuqYUfzn4GE/UYpLfE83awI/AAAAAAAAD3E/H942V1gazjg/s1600/barcelona_14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QuqYUfzn4GE/UYpLfE83awI/AAAAAAAAD3E/H942V1gazjg/s400/barcelona_14.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Inércia, bar no Born, numa noite de muita ventania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Sentia vontade de fazer uma peregrinação por esses tapas-bar todos os dias, mas era um tanto complicado. A tentação de forrar a mesa com várias porçõezinhas de coisas diferentes, apenas para experimentar, é proporcional ao preço que se paga por elas. Se a tradição das &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;tapas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; surgiu como uma cortesia para agradar clientes que ligavam muito mais pro álcool que pra comida, hoje elas tem preços mais altos que os dos drinks, embora ainda sejam usadas como desculpa para beber.&lt;br /&gt;
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Depois de levar chapéu e pagar conta alta por comida ruim em alguns lugares, acabei criando meu próprio&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;tapas-bar-quality-indicator&lt;/em&gt; pra não cair no conto mais vezes: se escutava muito inglês, o bar devia ser ruim; se escutava espanhol, é porque era popular entre a grande comunidade de latino-americanos; se escutava um treco que soava espanhol, mas não dava pra entender nada, é porque o lugar estava cheio de gente falando catalão. Para as duas últimas opções, a conta continuou alta, mas a comida era divina.&lt;br /&gt;
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E quase todos são bem pequenos e convidativos. Alguns&amp;nbsp;tão apertados, que nem precisam de&lt;br /&gt;
cardápio. Qualquer cliente fica perto o suficiente da vitrine, no balcão, para apontar qual tapa quer. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Calamares fritos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; e pãozinho com &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;presunto cru&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;jamón del país&lt;/em&gt;) são ridiculamente bons.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9-y01ncTslM/UYpMcf_EWhI/AAAAAAAAD4E/VkhTzfKJuBQ/s1600/barcelona_30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9-y01ncTslM/UYpMcf_EWhI/AAAAAAAAD4E/VkhTzfKJuBQ/s400/barcelona_30.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Bares de degustação de vinho também estão no auge em Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IefTvJJkHg8/UYpLWSR5aHI/AAAAAAAAD28/SXS6cnZRuYs/s1600/barcelona_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IefTvJJkHg8/UYpLWSR5aHI/AAAAAAAAD28/SXS6cnZRuYs/s400/barcelona_12.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Meia dúzia de pessoas se espremem no balcão deste &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;barzinho&lt;/span&gt; do Raval&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uhww_ilbeTE/UYpM5eBILQI/AAAAAAAAD4o/6qXSW2JlgEo/s1600/barcelona_77.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uhww_ilbeTE/UYpM5eBILQI/AAAAAAAAD4o/6qXSW2JlgEo/s400/barcelona_77.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Duas mesas e pronto. Quem precisa de bar gigante?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Outra coisa em comum é que os garçons são, raramente, espanhóis. Muitos vêm da Índia, Marrocos, China e de outros países onde, como no Brasil, a Europa é vendida como o paraíso. Os espanhóis, mesmo, foram trabalhar no Reino Unido e na Alemanha.&lt;br /&gt;
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A noite é eclética: boêmia, baladeira ou gastronômica, tem pra todo mundo. Uma madrugada no Born revela que Barcelona, tão aparentemente desleixada, é extremamente vaidosa. Mesmo o que está mais caidinho, parece cuidadosamente bagunçado. A cidade é muito consumida por gente jovem e adolescente não gosta de nada certinho.&lt;br /&gt;
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E quando comer pequenas porções não for mais suficiente e der vontade de fazer&amp;nbsp;um pratão, é hora de ir para a Barceloneta, pedir um peixe assado, pescado no próprio dia.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VIVs66ZApgU/UYpL9IzSF_I/AAAAAAAAD3k/uLCqxRG2Rjo/s400/barcelona_23.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Bairro Gótico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ipLqq9QfhzY/UYpNCldQ1gI/AAAAAAAAD4w/gRHqlEahrVY/s1600/barcelona_86.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ipLqq9QfhzY/UYpNCldQ1gI/AAAAAAAAD4w/gRHqlEahrVY/s400/barcelona_86.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Começo de domingão no Born&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Vitrine de uma "charcuteria", ou açougue, na cidade velha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Na cidade velha, durante o dia, as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Ramblas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; estão quase sempre no meio do caminho. Entre uma lojinha sem graça e outra,&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;avenida&amp;nbsp;mais famosa&amp;nbsp;da cidade mostra, no &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mercat La Boquería&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, onde está guardada toda a autenticidade que falta ao resto da rua. O primeiro mercado da cidade empilha frutas e peixes frescos lado a lado há mais de 170 anos e, entre os &lt;em&gt;mercadomaníacos &lt;/em&gt;(eu, incluso) que têm uma&amp;nbsp;manga em uma mão e a câmera na outra, ainda há velhinhas com carrinhos escolhendo batata por batata. Um pouco menor e menos movimentado, o &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Mercat de Santa Catarina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, com seu teto ondulado e a estrutura de madeira desencaixada, que parece querer desabar a qualquer momento, também é ótimo para o primeiro &lt;em&gt;café-com-leche&lt;/em&gt; do dia.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Mercat de Santa Catarina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg4Kzr2D7DI/UYpMFjHF8cI/AAAAAAAAD3s/CGlFH6ZaKGE/s400/barcelona_28.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;La Boquería&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M6iWDK3Rtrg/UYpLPRJPvcI/AAAAAAAAD20/b-U7Z4lR3TU/s1600/barcelona_107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M6iWDK3Rtrg/UYpLPRJPvcI/AAAAAAAAD20/b-U7Z4lR3TU/s400/barcelona_107.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;La Boquería &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;é uma tempestad&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; gourmet: cheiros e cores quase infinitas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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uma noite interminável seguida de uma manhã de cafés onde as pessoas conversam ao vivo e lêem jornal, ao invés de procurar o sinal de wi-fi. Em Barcelona, não é necessário deixar o mundo pra trás para colocá-lo de lado.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Barcelona:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/barcelona-ate-que-parece-a-eruopa.html"&gt;Barcelona: até que lembra a Europa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html"&gt;Sagrada Família, CasaBatló, La Pedrera e Park Güell: o melhor de Gaudí em Barcelona &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Quando os 20 e poucos euros&amp;nbsp;são cobrados pela recepcionista no guichê da Casa Batló ou da La Pedrera, o valor alto assusta.&amp;nbsp;Mas entre escolher entre&amp;nbsp;elas ou&amp;nbsp;uma de suas refeições para o sacrifício do dia, não hesite:&amp;nbsp;fique com o alimento pra alma. Ir&amp;nbsp;à&amp;nbsp;Barcelona&amp;nbsp;e não entrar&amp;nbsp;nas casas de Gaudí é&amp;nbsp;como&amp;nbsp;tomar&amp;nbsp;café descafeinado ou cerveja sem álcool. Ao contrário da Sagrada Família, que é especial, mesmo,&amp;nbsp;por sua arquitetura externa, as casas&amp;nbsp;desenhadas por Gaudí têm, em sua fachada, apenas uma introdução.&lt;br /&gt;
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As cores da Casas Batló&amp;nbsp;e suas sacadas e janelas em forma de ossada nunca foram desvendadas por completo. Vai ver algo saiu errado e Gaudí não quis admitir; ou então o contratante não quis mesmo revelar todos os detalhes e, como a casa ainda é propriedade privada, isso talvez nunca aconteça.&lt;br /&gt;
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Depois de mais de uma hora dentro da Casa Batló foi que eu lembrei ter um audioguia pendurado no pescoço. Escutei uma faixa ou outra dos cômodos mais relevantes, mas aí já era tarde: a essa hora eu já tinha minhas próprias conclusões. &lt;br /&gt;
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Os azuleijos de cor pastel e a madeira envernizada&amp;nbsp;eram a tendência&amp;nbsp;e, por isso,&amp;nbsp;criam uma atmosfera de casa da vovó, desde a fechadura até o último centímetro da chaminé. É algo meio pop, que um dia deve ter sido estupidamente novo, mas agora carrega o charme de antiguinho. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Janela principal da Casa Batló&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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As formas arredondadas nos acabamentos de tetos e portas&amp;nbsp;eram a ousadia e a fantasia - a rejeição às linhas retas e preferência por formas inusitadas e mais dinâmicas, da água&amp;nbsp;ao esqueleto de um dragão, inspiraram o conceito da casa. &amp;nbsp;Não sei como&amp;nbsp;eram recebidas as casas de Gaudí no momento em que eram entregues mas, com tanta interferência na cabeça de quem as&amp;nbsp;vê&amp;nbsp;mais de&amp;nbsp;100 anos depois de prontas, dá pra dizer que ali deve morar um hobbit do Senhor dos Anéis.&lt;br /&gt;
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Há também luz de sobra para que os detalhes sejam observados -&amp;nbsp;mesmo os interiores eram planejados como exteriores. O&amp;nbsp;páteo interno na Casa Batló, embora um pouco esprimido,&amp;nbsp;ainda recebe luz natural; na Pedrera, o páteo é bem maior e iluminado pelo sol&amp;nbsp;quase o dia todo - mesmos as áreas internas são corredores circulares, com janelas para o lado de fora, como se estivessem te empurrando para curtir o dia lá fora. Em ambas as casas, o teto é uma área de lazer além das mesinhas com vista panorâmica, vistas no topo&amp;nbsp;de quase todas as construções do L'Eixample, bairro em que estão localizadas&amp;nbsp;- na Pedrera, é como um labirinto, observado por chaminés agrupadas&amp;nbsp;em duplas ou trios e&amp;nbsp;que se&amp;nbsp;parecem com faces de soldados quando vistas de perto, mas doces gigantes quando vistas de longe.&lt;br /&gt;
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O delírio que se sente dentro das casas é como poder entrar um pouco na mente do criador delas. E é tamanho que, na saída, é capaz de fazer acreditar que&amp;nbsp;a árvore seca de outono, na calçada, foi feita com aquelas formas para que combinasse com a casa. É uma alucinação difícil de ser descrita. O abstrato de Gaudí é tão&amp;nbsp;lúdico e infantil, que faz com Barcelona possa ser lembrada não só como cidade pecadora mas também,&amp;nbsp;ótimo destino para ir com crianças.&lt;br /&gt;
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No &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Park Guell&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, aliás, cheguei por volta das 9 da manhã e já era tarde. Sexta-feira e centenas de excursões da criançadinha que mal sabia falar estavam espalhadas. Se mal sabiam falar, imagina escrever -&amp;nbsp;e a diferença na educação&amp;nbsp;mora mesmo nestes lugares que sabem que nem um deles&amp;nbsp;significa que a criança não saiba se expressar. Elas estavam lá,&amp;nbsp;todas desenhando, sem se preocupar&amp;nbsp;com julgamentos ou&amp;nbsp;convenções,&amp;nbsp;sem nem saber ainda o&amp;nbsp;significado de&amp;nbsp;certo&amp;nbsp;ou errado.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ninguém sabe se elas vão tomar gosto pela arte&amp;nbsp;mais tarde e querer fazer algo no campo, mas nunca ninguém me peguntou se eu queria ser farmacêtico antes de ensinar ligações moleculares no colegial.&lt;br /&gt;
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Abaixo do teto (de novo, o teto), que é a área onde se concentra&amp;nbsp;toda atividade do parque por oferecer as melhores vistas,&amp;nbsp;estão as colunas que Gaudí desenhou para imitar colunas romanas, mas com um efeito único: elas&amp;nbsp;tem uma inclinação que só se revela dependendo do ângulo em que são observadas. É fácil se flagrar perguntando se aquela coluna entortada, ao seu lado não estava reta há alguns segundos atrás.&lt;br /&gt;
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O&amp;nbsp;Park Guell, ao contrário das casas mais famosas da rua do&amp;nbsp;Paseig de Grácia, não cobra entrada. O que poderia ser um museu privado e cheio de frescurites (foi projetado, inclusive, sob esse ponto de vista), é tão público quanto as ruas que o cercam. &lt;br /&gt;
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As formas distintas das duas contruções que ficam logo na entrada só não são mais reconhecíveis porque Gaudí ainda teve tempo de sonhar mais alto&amp;nbsp;e projetar uma igreja que, nem pelos próximos cento e tantos anos, ficaria pronta.&amp;nbsp;Parece brincadeira que aqueles guindastes que atrapalham a foto de todos os turistas desde 1882 (já tinha foto nessa época?)&amp;nbsp;ainda estão trabalhando na &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sagrada Família&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (Templo Expiatório de la Sagrada Família), mas é verdade.&amp;nbsp;Sei lá quantas técnicas diferentes já foram empregadas durante este tempo todo, mas das 18 torres planejadas, ainda faltam 10. O impulso que Gaudí tinha de ir direto ao assunto e pular etapas do planejamento não proporcionou que ele pudesse, em vida, ver mais de sua obra prima - mas o que pode consagrar mais uma mente brilhante, que uma bela&amp;nbsp;visão que não pode ser&amp;nbsp;concretizada a tempo?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Do teto do Park Guell, vistas lindíssimas de Barcelona, com a a Sagrada Família sempre presente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Park Guell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Park Guell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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A&amp;nbsp;catedral esprimida em um quarteirão -&amp;nbsp;do mesmo tamanho de todos os outros ao seu redor -, se estica e sua verticalização fica ainda mais evidente. De quase todos os pontos do L'Eixample é possível ver as torres equilibrando esferas no topo, mas apenas da base pode-se contemplar as&amp;nbsp;várias fachadas que parecem ter algo diferente a cada vez que se olha. As figuras religiosas marcam uma das poucas vezes em que Gaudí não investiu no abstrato mas, mesmo assim, a falta de elementos góticos e o uso de cores faz da Sagrada Família uma caricatura das catedrais tradicionais. &lt;br /&gt;
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A primeira vez que vi as fotos da Sagrada Família - eu ainda nem sabia se teria a chance de vê-la um dia e, pra falar a verdade, nem sabia o que ela era e nem onde ficava - com os guindastes intrometidos, a cor&amp;nbsp;marrom-alaranjada&amp;nbsp;e as formas tão aleatórias&amp;nbsp; me davam impressão de que aquele castelo de areia estava pra desabar a qualquer momento e, por isso, as obras eram parte de uma manutenção constante.&lt;br /&gt;
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Já vi uma história de que Picasso não gostava do que Gaudí fazia. Uma história perfeita pra completar o que faltava no cenário: grands personagens e, de preferência, rivais. É duro né, Pablo, mesmo tendo sido tão genial, ver seus quadros num museu, por melhor que ele seja, e a obra do outro cara espalhada pela cidade.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Park Guell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Iluminação noturna da Casa Batló&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Mobília da Casa Batló, também desenhada por Gaudí especialmente para a casa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Detalhes da fachada "arenosa" da Sagrada Família&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobra Barcelona:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/barcelona-ate-que-parece-a-eruopa.html"&gt;Barcelona: até que lembra a Europa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/05/onde-ir-barcelona-nao-se-importe-se-perder.html"&gt;Barcelona: não se esforce pra não se perder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsvaziandoAMochila/~4/ykV-TnReeAY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/feeds/731492914744848623/comments/default" title="Postar comentários" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html#comment-form" title="1 Comentários" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/725385193183229463/posts/default/731492914744848623?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/725385193183229463/posts/default/731492914744848623?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsvaziandoAMochila/~3/ykV-TnReeAY/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html" title="Casa Batló, La Pedrera, Park Guell e Sagrada Família: o melhor de Gaudí em Barcelona" /><author><name>Tiago Caramuru</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/109422912668136063548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cChHeOFLDoU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADlc/0Ph1PmMgdC0/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zYB9mA3_dYY/UXzabrNYCRI/AAAAAAAADvs/ZefynCOtfgo/s72-c/barcelona_56.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUADRHg8fCp7ImA9WhBbEko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725385193183229463.post-1332449348943902541</id><published>2013-04-21T02:48:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2013-05-11T09:02:55.674-03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-11T09:02:55.674-03:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barcelona" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Europa" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Espanha" /><title>Barcelona: até que lembra a Europa</title><content type="html">&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Com estilo de vida único e escrachado, Barcelona se destaca como cidade liberal e das artes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Barcelona é muito relaxada pra uma cidade do seu tamanho, muito revolucionária pra um lugar&amp;nbsp;de tantas&amp;nbsp;tradições, muito segura pra ser considerada um paraíso de batedores de carteira e, entre tantos outros rótulos controversos, é muito rebelde pra se encaixar em qualquer um deles.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maior cidade da Catalunha e líder do movimento que pede a independência da região, Barcelona vê seu nome associado a esta dicussão em cada vez que é citada -&amp;nbsp;como se, quando isso acontecesse,&amp;nbsp;o assunto pudesse ter um&amp;nbsp;ponto final. &lt;br /&gt;
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Para uns, movimentos seperatistas não são&amp;nbsp;vistos com bons olhos -&amp;nbsp;o aspecto de nação desunida causa tensão; para outros, o Reino da Catalunha nunca deveria ter sido anexado a Espanha e, por isso, deveria ter sua soberania devolvida -&amp;nbsp;é a mais pura verdade, mas também é&amp;nbsp;interpretativo, ou não é este mesmo toma lá /da cá&amp;nbsp;que conta a história de cada um&amp;nbsp;dos outros países do mundo?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Ribera, Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;A chuva faz o clima vintage do Born ficar ainad mais evidente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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"Vale, Vale" (o equivalente em espanhol para "tá bom"), eles tem muito mais orgulho de ser catalães que espanhóis. Mas o&amp;nbsp;fato é que esse orgulho,&amp;nbsp;expressado especialmente em&amp;nbsp;Barcelona, não é diferente do meu por ser paulista, de um carioca por ser do Rio ou de qualquer um de nós por ter&amp;nbsp;carinho pelo lugar de onde veio. Apesar da influência francesa, os catalães são espanhóis, sim, como mostra o sotaque -&amp;nbsp;inclusive na hora de trocar o V por B na hora de dizer "vale, vale". Igualzinho ao resto do país.&lt;br /&gt;
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Enquanto separatistas e nacionalistas discutem eternamente o futuro de Barcelona há milhares de anos, ela se mostra um lugar diferente justamente quando isso é colocado em segundo plano. Cicatrizes de guerras e períodos negros das guerras causadas por essas discussões construíram a identidade da cidade alternativa e das artes - o estilo medieval gótico virou barroco, que virou vanguardista, que virou moderno e, nos dias de hoje, Barcelona transborda design nos hotéis (mesmo os mais baratos) e em cafés e barzinhos que, às vezes, não comportam mais que 3 mesas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Não interessa se os tempos são, novamente, difíceis. A crise que estourou em 2008 (e parece longe de acabar) vêm batendo na Espanha sem dó. Mas arte, em Barcelona, não é luxo - é elemento fundamental do dia-a-dia de quem preza pela&amp;nbsp;qualidade de vida.&lt;br /&gt;
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Felizmente, os revolucionários de discurso bonito que fizeram atrocidades perderam espaço e outros revolucionários de verdade nunca pouparam esforços para colocar Barcelona na crescente. A Olimpíada de 92, sempre usada como melhor exemplo de bom uso do evento para deixar um legado para a cidade-sede, transformou a zona portuária e a costa de Barcelona por completo - da &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Barceloneta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, bairro tradicional operário que passou a abrigar diversos restaurantes, até as praias do &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Poblenou&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, ex-área de galpões industriais que passou a ser uma das zonas residenciais mais valorizadas da cidade.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Janela principal da Casa Batló, vista de fora...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q7HCDFZMQ3w/UWuJKX2AFzI/AAAAAAAADsA/CJTCyRhaIew/s1600/barcelona_37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q7HCDFZMQ3w/UWuJKX2AFzI/AAAAAAAADsA/CJTCyRhaIew/s400/barcelona_37.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;...e a mesma janela principal, vista de dentro da casa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YNl4PCJfnMI/UWuJTuA3rRI/AAAAAAAADsI/b2DpGefNAbg/s1600/barcelona_39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YNl4PCJfnMI/UWuJTuA3rRI/AAAAAAAADsI/b2DpGefNAbg/s400/barcelona_39.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Detalhe dos azuleijos coloridos, muito usados por Gaudí&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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E muito antes disso, no final dos anos 1800, o &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;L'Eixample&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;apareceu como um dos maiores projetos de planejamento urbano que já existiu, com seus quarteirões paralelos de quadrados perfeitos,&amp;nbsp;conectando a&amp;nbsp;Barcelona velha, próxima&amp;nbsp;a costa,&amp;nbsp;à&amp;nbsp;Grácia, já perto das montanhas. É por ali que estão pontilhados o melhor do que foi deixado pelo freelancer espanhol mais contratado do século 20, o arquiteto António Gaudí. Entre&amp;nbsp;as casas alucinógenas construídas pelo seu talento, destacam-se a&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;La Pedrera &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;(Casa Milá é o nome oficial)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;e a &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Casa Batló&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Como todo gênio, ele deixou&amp;nbsp;algo grandioso inacabado: a &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sagrada Família&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;obra em andamento pelo período mais longo da história.&lt;br /&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html"&gt;Casa Batló, La Pedrera, Park Güell e Sagrada Família: o melhor de Gaudí em Barcelona&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Gótic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Born&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; e o &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Raval&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, bairros do centro da Cidade Velha, viram Picasso, Miró e até Dali crescendo, se aperfeiçoando e se embebedando. E foram vistos com igual admiração por todos eles, que mergulharam intensamente na atmosfera liberal da cidade. A Barcelona de hoje agradece - ela se inspira neles assim como eles se inspiraram nela. Picasso tem, inclusive,&amp;nbsp;seu próprio&amp;nbsp;museu, o &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Museu Picasso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, com três andares&amp;nbsp;de um repertório imenso do seu início de carreira. Uma&amp;nbsp;coleção do tamanho de seu talento e ego juntos - e olha que não dá pra saber qual dos dois era maior.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8B3a3RrZkbI/UWuJ_NwbP8I/AAAAAAAADtQ/zKmtBzE2dv0/s1600/barcelona_57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8B3a3RrZkbI/UWuJ_NwbP8I/AAAAAAAADtQ/zKmtBzE2dv0/s400/barcelona_57.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Catedral da Sagrada Família, monumento mais reconhecível de Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Bares pequeninos estão lado a lado &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;o Paseig del Born, rua da noite no bairro de mesmo nome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Um-U7IB844w/UWuKNkybMaI/AAAAAAAADto/JYP3eB6Rt98/s1600/barcelona_79.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Um-U7IB844w/UWuKNkybMaI/AAAAAAAADto/JYP3eB6Rt98/s400/barcelona_79.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Pán con jamón del país&lt;/i&gt;", encontrado em qualquer menu de tapas de Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Barcelona tem romantismo e a malandragem lado a lado. Arte de dia, álcool de noite. Quem não é artista, vira - a lei branda contra crimes pequenos, como furto, estimula&amp;nbsp;os batedores&amp;nbsp;de carteira, mas só após um belo golpe ser aplicado em turistas desavisados que aceitam os abraços distribuídos na &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Rambla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Nada alarmante pra quem se vacionar contra o bicho da tontisse viajística (aquele que faz a gente acreditar que nada de ruim acontece fora da nossa cidade).&lt;br /&gt;
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Rambla, aliás, constantemente chamada&amp;nbsp;de Ramblas. Isso porque há cinco divisões imaginárias ao longo do calçadão de um quilômetro que vai da &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Praça Catalunya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; até a estátua de Cristóvão Colombo (Colón), no &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Port Vell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Elas são&amp;nbsp;o centro natural de Barcelona, o ponto de gravidade e&amp;nbsp;onde, talvez, você se sinta mais na Europa - não só pela arquitetura, mas pelos restaurantes absurdos de caros, grupos de 100 pessoas por centímetro e as mãos leves se deliciando. Uma caminhada de cabo a rabo não é desperdício de tempo, mas os labirintos do bairro gótico e o charme da &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Ribera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; e do &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Raval&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; são inconparavelmente mais carismáticos e autênticos.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Las Ramblas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CIjpv8H-tos/UWuJnDnw7_I/AAAAAAAADsk/MiJ7VsuW-ek/s1600/barcelona_21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CIjpv8H-tos/UWuJnDnw7_I/AAAAAAAADsk/MiJ7VsuW-ek/s400/barcelona_21.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Ribera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Praça Catalunya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ecr-plq6Cxw/UWuKe6IURgI/AAAAAAAADuA/R93rKW9GNn8/s1600/barcelona_92.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ecr-plq6Cxw/UWuKe6IURgI/AAAAAAAADuA/R93rKW9GNn8/s400/barcelona_92.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Park Güell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Barcelona não é a cidade mais bonita do mundo, mas está muito longe de ser a mais feia. Ela se deixa compreender muito mais pelo cara que relaxa e deixa de querer saber tudo -&amp;nbsp;das datas aos nomes das igrejas. É muito melhor gastar o dia passeando no &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Park Guell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; e se deslumbrando com as vistas, tanto do parque, quanto da própria cidade, preocupando-se apenas com quais serão as tapas a ser escolhida mais tarde, num dos bares do Born. &lt;br /&gt;
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Depois de visitar&amp;nbsp;Barcelona, a Europa&amp;nbsp;se torna&amp;nbsp;resto.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/sagrada-familia-casa-batlo-pedrera-park-guell-melhor-de-gaudi-em-barcelona.html"&gt;Casa Batló, La Pedrera, Park Güell e Sagrada Família: o melhor de Gaudí em Barcelona&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/05/onde-ir-barcelona-nao-se-importe-se-perder.html"&gt;Barcelona: não se esforce pra não se perder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsvaziandoAMochila/~4/lu33II13SAw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/feeds/1332449348943902541/comments/default" title="Postar comentários" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/barcelona-ate-que-parece-a-eruopa.html#comment-form" title="2 Comentários" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/725385193183229463/posts/default/1332449348943902541?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/725385193183229463/posts/default/1332449348943902541?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsvaziandoAMochila/~3/lu33II13SAw/barcelona-ate-que-parece-a-eruopa.html" title="Barcelona: até que lembra a Europa" /><author><name>Tiago Caramuru</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/109422912668136063548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cChHeOFLDoU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAADlc/0Ph1PmMgdC0/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bep-UCJGAZ8/UWuBl4sPlqI/AAAAAAAADpU/iRKg4q8AJfM/s72-c/barcelona_4.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/barcelona-ate-que-parece-a-eruopa.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEUER3w-fCp7ImA9WhBWGE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725385193183229463.post-3933715639114011709</id><published>2013-04-01T01:55:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2013-04-13T02:50:06.254-03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-13T02:50:06.254-03:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Europa" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Utilidade" /><title>Como baixar os preços da sua viagem para a Europa 3: não custa nada!</title><content type="html">&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Lucerna, Suíça&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;O primeiro post da mini-série "Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa dizia por quê &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/como-baratear-viagem-europa-independente.html"&gt;viagens independentes são sempre mais baratas&lt;/a&gt;. O segundo, listou &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/como-baratear-viagem-europa-londres-de-graca.html"&gt;atrações gratuitas de Londres&lt;/a&gt;, uma das capitais européias mais amada por brasileiros. E agora, pra fechar&amp;nbsp;o trio, o Esvaziando a Mochila e&amp;nbsp;o buscador de passagens aéreas &lt;a href="http://www.skyscanner.com.br/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Skyscanner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;mostram o que, no velho continente, não custa nada!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Sabe por que a gente escuta falar tanto que quem mora na Suíça é rico? Porque é verdade. E quem diria que, numa terra que transborda&amp;nbsp;dinheiro, algo poderia ser de graça. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Em Genebra, cidade mais importante da parte francesa do país, resolveu implementar transporte público que não custa nada para seus visitantes, numa tentativa de trazer o pessoal que desdenha a cidade, por estar um tanto&amp;nbsp;na contra-mão do trajeto de lugares mais procurados, como Interlaken ou Lucerna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Em Roma, encher a garrafinha de água não custa nada. Se ver uma bica, vá em frente que é potável. E em Roma, esqueça essa necessidade diária que nós, como turistas, temos de encontrar algo pra &lt;i&gt;fazer&lt;/i&gt; - andar pelas ruas é a melhor coisa a se experimentar por lá e é de graça.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Roma:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/04/nem-todos-os-caminhos-chegam-roma-mas.html"&gt;Nem todos os caminhos levam a Roma, mas deveriam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/11/roma-o-que-ha-de-mais-antigo.html"&gt;Roma, o que há de mais antigo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/06/vaticano-um-dia-inteiro-fora-de-roma.html"&gt;Vaticano, um dia inteiro fora de Roma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Lisboa, Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Não custa nada colocar Portugal no seu roteiro! Lisboa tem sido considerada, ano após ano, a cidade com os melhores albergues do mundo e os hotéis cinco estrela mais baratos. Uma cidade bonita, com comida espetacular, história, povo hospitaleiro e preços ótimos não pode desaponatr ninguém.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Portugal:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/09/lisboa-onde-ficar.html"&gt;Lisboa: onde ficar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/10/por-que-lisboa-tem-que-estar-no-seu.html"&gt;Lisboa: 10 motivos para incluí-la no seu roteiro pela Europa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/08/os-caminhos-de-lisboa.html"&gt;Os caminhos de Lisboa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Em várias cidade do velho continente, confiança&amp;nbsp; ainda é um valor apreciado. Não dê de espertão tentando embarcar sem bilhete em lugares onde o transporte público não tem catraca. As multas são pesadíssimas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ObAkrNM0PTc/UVkQUDKE0dI/AAAAAAAADoU/zSALeDZNIuc/s1600/estocolmo_56.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ObAkrNM0PTc/UVkQUDKE0dI/AAAAAAAADoU/zSALeDZNIuc/s400/estocolmo_56.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Estocolmo, Suécia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;5&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Não pule o café da manhã. Na ânsia de sair logo pra aproveitar mais o dia, o café da manhã às vezes fica de lado, o que faz com que o almoço seja aquela fartura e aí a preguiça vespertina acaba matando o resto do seu dia. Ir a um café ou buffet de hotel, todas as manhãs, é um prazer garantido na sua viagem e, certamente, mais barato que muito prato feito michuruca servido na hora do&amp;nbsp;almoço.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Onde comer bem na Europa:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/06/o-rossio-em-lisboa.html"&gt;O Rossio, em Lisboa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/04/al-picchio-roma.html"&gt;Al Picchio, Roma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/04/leonidas-pascoa-barata-da-europa.html"&gt;Leônidas, o chocolate&amp;nbsp;bom e barato&amp;nbsp;da Europa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/11/onde-bohemia-nao-e-melhor-que-bavaria.html"&gt;República Tcheca: onde a Bohemia não é assim tão melhor que a Bavaria&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/05/em-viena-sachertorte-e-apfelstrudel-sao.html"&gt;Em Viena, Apfelstrudel e Sachertorte são&amp;nbsp;doces irresistíveis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Esqueça Julho, Agosto e Setembro - principalmente para Itália, Espanha, Grécia e&amp;nbsp;qualquer outro país do sul. Muitas cotoveladas, filas eternas e preços altos aguardam quem faz questão de viajar nesses 3 meses de alta estação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/10/europa-10-coisas-pra-fazer-na-baixa.html"&gt;Europa: 10 coisas pra fazer na baixa estação&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c3ZlA8DDFLo/UVkPiA49TrI/AAAAAAAADn4/Eto0d4Xgf2E/s1600/viena_33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c3ZlA8DDFLo/UVkPiA49TrI/AAAAAAAADn4/Eto0d4Xgf2E/s400/viena_33.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Viena, Áustria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kd9zRgEwcNU/UVkP0yOe7mI/AAAAAAAADoI/0oXaAQS1FeM/s1600/glasgow13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="323" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kd9zRgEwcNU/UVkP0yOe7mI/AAAAAAAADoI/0oXaAQS1FeM/s400/glasgow13.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Glasgow, Escócia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Ímãs de geladeira? Cartões postais? Estatuazinhas? Não precisa passar vontade, mas juntado o preço dessas coisinhas que a gente leva por impulso ,daria pra comprar uma camisa ou um tênis. Com a vantagem que a peça de roupa vai ficar bonita durante e depois da viagem, enquanto o souvenir parece tão típico no destino, mas te faz perguntar por que você comprou, quando você chega em casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qU2U5U3lOEg/UVkTCGP16MI/AAAAAAAADo0/WTsfBF62mXo/s1600/mblog19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qU2U5U3lOEg/UVkTCGP16MI/AAAAAAAADo0/WTsfBF62mXo/s400/mblog19.jpg" width="326" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Moscou, Rússia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyg5ALQ04xw/UVkR-gnCRBI/AAAAAAAADok/duAny_-Cl48/s1600/praga_9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyg5ALQ04xw/UVkR-gnCRBI/AAAAAAAADok/duAny_-Cl48/s400/praga_9.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Praga, República Tcheca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Não esnobe o leste! É menos desvendado, mais aventureiro, cheio de vestígios do que sobrou das revoluções e os governos socialistas e , principalmente, muito mais barato!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/04/turismo-sovietico.html"&gt;Turismo soviético: por onde fazer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/02/russia-antes-que-tudo-pareca-impossivel.html"&gt;Rússia: antes que tudo pareça impossível&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/04/praga-museu-do-comunismo.html"&gt;Praga: museu do comunismo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Outros&amp;nbsp;posts da série &lt;i&gt;Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/como-baratear-viagem-europa-independente.html"&gt;Post 1&amp;nbsp;- Como deixar sua viagem para a Europa mais barata: viagem independete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/como-baratear-viagem-europa-londres-de-graca.html"&gt;Post 2 - Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa 2: Londres de graça&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre viajar barato e dicas de viagem:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/09/barateie-sua-viagem-cuidando-da.html"&gt;Barateie sua viagem cuidando da logística&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/quarto-de-hotel-o-que-pode-levar.html"&gt;Quarto de hotel: o que pode ou não usar/pegar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/12/meu-cartao-nao-funcionou-no-exterior-e.html"&gt;Como usar cartões de crédito e débito no exterior (e o que fazer caso eles não funcionem)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/11/como-evitar-sacanagens-contra-turistas.html"&gt;Como evitar sacanagens contra turistas, principalmente na primeira viagem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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There you go, that's a&amp;nbsp;land I never expected to step on. Not because they don't have anything to be seen or any other silly reason, but simply because some places, when you think about them, it's almost an instinct to think: "where the hell?".&lt;br /&gt;
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The main part of Oman is situated on the very south of the Arab Gulf, adjoining another&amp;nbsp;contry immensely rich in culture, Yemen. The difference is that, while Yemen keeps it's &lt;em&gt;unvisitable&lt;/em&gt; status, for being a wide open refuge for runaway terrorists, Oman&amp;nbsp;remains safe, tolerant and welcoming.&lt;br /&gt;
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They still have another small portion that, as the main one, has borders with the United Arab Emirates (which is never&amp;nbsp;gonna have a name as strong as it's main cities Dubai and Abu Dhabi) -that's why, being in Dubai, it's so easy to make this turnaround to Oman. It's in this small portion that you find the last feature searched in the Middle East: beaches. I've already heard people looking for the coast of France, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico or Australia, but finding out that the omani coast is like the riviera of the gulf was a beautiful surprise. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Desert is cut by superb roads, connecting Dubai, in the UAE, to the northern territories of Oman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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The translucid waters squeeze beachs into giant desertic rocks, great for snorkling or just floating and chilling out in one of the most salty seas of the world. A mosque facing the sea is the picturesque touch that couldn't be missing.&lt;br /&gt;
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And those who don't have a yacht,&amp;nbsp;wander on&amp;nbsp;a boat. The fishermen in Oman already realized that spending the day looking for perfect pearls to sell to jewelers manufacturers is never gonna be as profitable as inviting tourists for a ride on their boats, the &lt;em&gt;dhows&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's negotiable but, in average, for a fee of 200 Dirhams (US$ 55,00), they take you for a whole day in a pleasant journey on the 2 stories boat, simply decorated to feel like a lounge. Along the coast, so impressively close to the hills, the boat goes till the very limit between the tides and the open sea. Lunch is included - after leaving people free for&amp;nbsp;a little swim and fight againt the salt, trying to keep your body underwater, the fishermen serve a fried fish with rice, accompanied by a fresh salad. Fruits, juices and water are available at any moment.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Adapted from the post &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/05/oma-de-barco-pela-costa-mais-bonita-do.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Omã: de barco pela costa mais bonita do Oriente Médio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;, published on 15/05/2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Dubai:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/dubai-20-places-to-eat-and-drink-alcohol.html"&gt;20 places to eat and drink (alcohol inclusive) in Dubai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/ferrarri-world-abu-dhabi-fastest-roller-coaster-of-the-world.html"&gt;Ferrari World, in Abu Dhabi: 240 km/h in the fastest roller coaster of the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/how-the-resorts-in-dubai-became-europe-wannabes-in-the-desert.html"&gt;Resorts in Dubai: the "Europe wannabe" desert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-mall-biggest-mall-in-world.html"&gt;Dubai Mall, the biggest mall in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-how-to-live-in.html"&gt;Dubai: getting the hang of how to live there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The concept of east and west was never so dynamic: they remain in the same place, but it feels like the world is turning not only physically anymore. European football clubs are being bought by sheikhs, the 10 best airlines are asian, information technology has been imported from India and the theme park of the most loved car brand of all times is situated thousands of miles away from where the brand itself was born. &lt;br /&gt;
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That's all part of the ambicious plan of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates capital. The city is still a lot smaller and more conservative than Dubai, but has oil for&amp;nbsp;a more than 10 times longer period - 120 years againt 10 of Dubai. It's impressive how this small capital, overshadowed by the famous neighbor, is already a global power, even though the city itself barely exists. With a growing perspective that, year after year, put it on the top of the fastest developing cities, Abu Dhabi keeps attracting bold investments to be starring the next phase of the arab luxury.&lt;br /&gt;
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Among so many greedy projects that are still on a piece of paper -&amp;nbsp;it's all the crisis fault, again&amp;nbsp;- some of them are alredy built up. One of them is the Ferrari Theme Park, concluded at the end of 2010. The horse brand is one of the favorites among the locals of all the Arab Gulf, specially those with high purchasing power - even wearing their traditional &lt;em&gt;dishdashas&lt;/em&gt; (whithe one-piece clothe), they don't forget to put on the red hat to match.&lt;/div&gt;
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It's funny to think that, going&amp;nbsp;on the other way around&amp;nbsp;of most of the parks, Ferrari didn't imagine the attraction first to plan where to build it up later. They already had in mind the project to expand and explore the brand in the Middle East and didn't know what was&amp;nbsp;path to follow, till the day they got to the conclusion that a theme park is everything that people crazy about money-spending wish.&lt;br /&gt;
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Simulators, roller-coasters, carousel, galleries of old and new cars, 3D Cinemas and restaurants compose the whole attraction, underneath the magnificient and huge red shield with the Ferrari logo on the top. Highlights include &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Scuderia Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a simulator that puts you inside a Formula One, literally laying down like a real pilot and in charge of your Ferrari, with that wheel that has dozens of buttons. The crashes are convincent and it takes time to learn how to complete a single lap without any bumps - don't feel guilty cuz&amp;nbsp;Alonso and Massa are also in trouble in the real thing.&lt;br /&gt;
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The sceninc reproductions of the paddocks, italian piazzas (squares) are good supports, but Ferrari World wouldn't be nothing without &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Formula Rossa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. In the economic rise of the arab world, nothing is built to be big - it's always to be the biggest. So it's easy to match: for the biggest indoor park in the world, the fastest roller coaster. Right on the beggining of the ride you understand what they mean - as soon as the car leaves the beginning point, shot like a bullet, it&amp;nbsp;speeds up&amp;nbsp;to 240 km/h in a few seconds. Its so fast you can't even scream - you open your mouth but the voice doesn't come out. From this point, some sharp falls and turns that are good, but nothing comparing the feeling caused by the speed. They actually feel more like the way back for you to line up again and try it some more times - it's highly addictive.&lt;br /&gt;
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To arrive in Abu Dhabi, from Dubai, renting a car is the best and the cheapest choice for those who are gonna stay for a few days in the region. Buses are also comfortable and cheap - they leave the Bur Dubai Bus Station quite often (from 6:20 in the morning)&amp;nbsp;and the round trip is something like US$ 12,00. From the bus station in Abu Dhabi, a taxi to Ferrari World shouldn't be more than US$ 5,00.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Yas Island, Abu Dhabi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ferrariworldabudhabi.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://www.ferrariworldabudhabi.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Adapted from the post &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/05/ferrari-world-em-abu-dhabi-240-kmh-na.html"&gt;Ferrari World, em Abu Dhabi: 240km/h na montanha russa mais rápido do mundo&lt;/a&gt;, published on 10/05/2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Dubai:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/dubai-20-places-to-eat-and-drink-alcohol.html"&gt;Dubai: 20 places to eat and drink (alcohol inclusive)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-day-trip-boat-ride-oman-coast.html"&gt;Day trip from Dubai: a boat ride along the coast of Oman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/how-the-resorts-in-dubai-became-europe-wannabes-in-the-desert.html"&gt;Resorts in Dubai: the "Europe wannabe" desert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-mall-biggest-mall-in-world.html"&gt;Dubai Mall, the biggest mall in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-how-to-live-in.html"&gt;Dubai, getting the hang of how to live there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Public and private in Dubai, sometimes, don't fight against each other. Social life for locals and, mainly, visitors, is 95% concentrated in hotels - walks, fine food, drinks, pools, bars, malls, landmarks... summary is that the hotels have everything the city has to offer.&lt;/div&gt;
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Wandering around the labyrinth of Medinat Jumeirah, one of the fanciest resorts, causes a tilt on your mind. The hotel&amp;nbsp;is produced by art directors that could run a movie. Chimneys for example, are not there&amp;nbsp;to put the hot air up, but they're far from being useless - they are the ones responsible for the perspective effect that puts you in a place that is huge indeed, but&amp;nbsp;looks infinite from a lot&amp;nbsp;of spots. The morrocan-arab style architecture is applied everywhere and&amp;nbsp;sooner or later, you forget you're inside a phantasy. &lt;br /&gt;
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There's no dust or sand flying around. There's no camels neither.&amp;nbsp;The giant coins, instead of being taken by those who are selling, are now being sold. A lie well told&amp;nbsp;convinces your brain that the a/c and the ATM's are only a detail of the change of times.&lt;br /&gt;
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Luxury has no limits: the lakes and the rivers are artificial, but it's not enough. They got to have &lt;em&gt;gondolas&lt;/em&gt;, like the ones in Venice, to pass under the beautiful bridges and ports set up throughout the resort. Out of nothing,&amp;nbsp;in less than 20 years,&amp;nbsp;there's now a bunch of small cities&amp;nbsp;including markets, houses, nightlife, rides, squares in Dubai - they are called resorts.&lt;br /&gt;
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They even have their own streches of the ocean. Dubai doesn't use the beaches to promote it's tourism because the hotels do. Most of them are private and belong to a hotel, which takes care of it and offer an amazing structure for you to enjoy a sweaty afternoon under forty something degrees. The sands are clear and the water, even more - you can soak yourself till the neck and when you look down, your feet are still clearly visible.&lt;br /&gt;
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Medinat Jumeirah is a symbol of the exclusive Dubai , the one that makes you feel like becoming&amp;nbsp;a rock star. The resort is open to whoever wants to visit - most of the areas are open for non-guests. But you can be sure that if your wallet is in a budget, it's not gonna be that fun. The resorts&amp;nbsp;could be extremely vertical or more structured upon a concept, like Medinat Jumeirah itself - whatever way they are, the bets are always centralized in the "all in one" resort, since the main services and attractions of the city are inside them.&lt;br /&gt;
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And making a deeper reflection, it all makes a lot of sense. Malls are the natural evolution for markets and arabs have always been good in business - and the crazy-futuristic architecture (specially of the buildings in Sheikh Zayed Road, the main street)&amp;nbsp;is the perfect expression for&amp;nbsp;the arab art, which was always based on the abstract rather than the human form.&lt;br /&gt;
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The special permission for the hotels to serve alcohol allow parties and blind their eyes for all of the habits not tolerated by the Islam, however,&amp;nbsp;there's a limit: nights have timings to finish. At 2 or 3 am, maximum, lights are turned on and people are kicked out like I used to be in the matinés, when I was 15. The kind of rule that, I belive, shall be broken along a bunch of other ones during those years that Dubai has been learning how not to behave.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Adapted from the post &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/03/europeizacao-do-deserto.html"&gt;Resorts em Dubai: a europeização do deserto&lt;/a&gt;, published on 05/03/2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Dubai:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-day-trip-boat-ride-oman-coast.html"&gt;Day trip from Dubai: a boat ride along the coast of Oman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/dubai-20-places-to-eat-and-drink-alcohol.html"&gt;20 places to eat and drink (alcohol inclusive) in Dubai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/ferrarri-world-abu-dhabi-fastest-roller-coaster-of-the-world.html"&gt;Ferrari World, in Abu Dhabi: 240km/h in the fastest roller coaster in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-mall-biggest-mall-in-world.html"&gt;Dubai Mall, the biggest mall in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-how-to-live-in.html"&gt;Dubai: getting the hang of how to live there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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First lesson is: malls are not same. Who would say that it is possible to learn something in a shopping center? Specially&amp;nbsp;because out of the categories you can put me in, shopaholic isn't one of them, definitely.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maybe&amp;nbsp;that's why, in one of the most visited places of Dubai - mainly among the ones that are not skyscrapers - you can understand so much about it's people. There's no other tourist attraction in town that is so loved by locals like Dubai Mall. Traditional arab clothes for women are shown in&amp;nbsp;several models, 90% similar to each other, but&amp;nbsp;that very discrete detail&amp;nbsp;might be enough to convince&amp;nbsp;a rich lady to pay a thousand dollars for it.&amp;nbsp;Shopping, here, is something&amp;nbsp;very&amp;nbsp;serious.&lt;br /&gt;
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The mall is a huge / enormous/&amp;nbsp;giant public space. Like a palace, but working as an extension for the luxurious outdoors of the&amp;nbsp;wealthy Dubai. So far, nothing could be considered a revolution, since the main concern of most of the malls nowa days is not to turn them into a refuge, but to integrate them to the environment they belong. But that makes sense like never before if you're talking about a city that&amp;nbsp;is under&amp;nbsp;40ºC or more for half of the year. Dubai Mall ends up being an island, but not isolated - it's part of the complex urbanism project of Dubai Downtown and it's vast surroundings.&lt;br /&gt;
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The mall has, only couting the indoor attractions: a giant aquarium, &lt;em&gt;souks&lt;/em&gt; replicas - traditional arab markets - and iceskating rink. Outside, Burj Khalifa shows off it's almost one kilometer high and invites you to take a view from the bottom to the top and the other way around -&amp;nbsp;the first choice is free; the second costs 100 Dirhams (US$ 27,00) for those who have a booking and 400 Dirhams for who doens't mind to pay more and just wanna walk in.&amp;nbsp;Follow the signalization of &lt;em&gt;At The Top,&lt;/em&gt; inside the mall, to get to the elevator that brings you to the panoramic floor.&lt;br /&gt;
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Megalomaniac, immense and almost unreal, like the contemporary Dubai, Dubai Mall is like&amp;nbsp;the dream of a new vanguard. It might be confused with a palace after&amp;nbsp;some thousands of years,&amp;nbsp; when the archeologists of future find it's falling apart ruins.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adapted from the post &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/02/algo-aprender-com-o-dubai-mall.html"&gt;Dubai Mall, o maior shopping do mundo: há o que cokmprar e o que aprender&lt;/a&gt;, published on 14/02/2011&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Dubai:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/dubai-20-places-to-eat-and-drink-alcohol.html"&gt;20 places to eat and drink (alcohol inclusive) in Dubai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/ferrarri-world-abu-dhabi-fastest-roller-coaster-of-the-world.html"&gt;Ferrari World, in Abu Dhabi: 240 km/h in the fastest roller coaster in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/how-the-resorts-in-dubai-became-europe-wannabes-in-the-desert.html"&gt;Resorts in Dubai: the "Europe wannabe" desert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-how-to-live-in.html"&gt;Dubai: geeting the hang of how to live there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-day-trip-boat-ride-oman-coast.html"&gt;Day trip from Dubai: a boat ride along the coast of Oman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Creek, the river that cuts the old Dubai - as the skyline shows, it's not so old anymore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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I've been working hard lately and the weirdest thing is: I'm not complaining. Waking up at 4 a.m. and having lunch at 11:00 have been new habits and I don't even remeber how it is to leave my place&amp;nbsp;after daylight is up. The funniest: having breakfast at the same time that, a few weeks ago, I was having frozen pizza and coke without gas late night, in São paulo, my hometown.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Day and night, the Creek margins are the most pleasant place to have a walk or go jogging in Dubai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;The River Creek: Deira on one of the sides, Bur dubai on the other one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;1 Dirham (US$ 0,30) to cross the river in a abra, the modest local modest boats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Changing the routine and habits that have everything to do with travelling, specially here on this spot of the planet. Dubai is a fantastic introduction to the Middle East, starting from the fact that filled up a whole on the globe. Before the economic boom, the expression "middle east" was invariably associated to war and bombs - all we knew about was all we don't know about&amp;nbsp;Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and other very closed countries.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;...pure gold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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On the other hand, Dubai gets more welcoming everyday and, aware that petrol is gonna run out soon - reserves are calculated to last for about 5 years -, prepares it's territories to live on tourism. It's not like that magic touch it was some time ago, when the sheikh used to point his finger and, on the next day, a striking building was there. But the sudden and consistent development was so well planned, that on the last 15 years, a 2 million people&amp;nbsp;metropolis rose up without having any problems of violence or cultural conflicts, despite the huge majority of the population - 90% -, is made of foreigners. Doha, capital of Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, capital of&amp;nbsp;the United Arab Emirates (same country Dubai), are following the same model.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;828 meters of Burj Khalifa. When you took a really close look, the rest of the building look so ridiculously small&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Self declared Las vegas of Middle East, Dubai has won all the adjectives of it's inspirational city in America, including the &lt;em&gt;fake&lt;/em&gt; one. Well, if the thing is there in front of you and you can see, hear and touch, the definition of fake is already a lot questionable. The feeling is completely different from any other arab cultured country like Syria, Lebanon or Jordan, of course. The same way that being in New York doesn't have nothing to do with San Francisco. Middle East, like the US, Europe, Australia, is not a neighborhood. even though they are very connected, each corner has its own special thing and&amp;nbsp;a different moment in history.&lt;br /&gt;
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This strict urban planning that guides the city is accompanied by rules that are not less severe and accurate. Don't walk out the line because your speech won't be in the news next morning - only the government has voice and that's the version you gonna hear a hundred percent of the time. They made Dubai, that was in no history books two decades ago, become a pioneering project&amp;nbsp;with a guaranteed space in the great achievments of the human (and oil) will. And it's still changing - nobody knows where it's gonna get -, but the power transmitted from father to son is very unlikely to change.&lt;br /&gt;
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Change that, whoever the leader of the nation is, he'll have to know how to keep the balance between tradition and tolerence. Walking on skirts or sharing a taxi with somebody from the opposite sex was unacceptable until, basically, yesterday. But suddenly, they have to take it&amp;nbsp;for granted if the "living on tourism" plan is supposed to continue. However, schools for locals are still very clearly dedicated for either men or women. The comprehension of the arab culture becomes more and more complex everyday, specially when most of the western countries schools ignore how big is the importance of those more than twenty nations that speak arabic.&lt;br /&gt;
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I've been seing people wearing traditional clothes everyday and I can find the non-muslim (where the pork meat is) quicker and quicker in the supermarkets; I've learned that and apartment in the middle of the desert, that has it's windows open for more than an hours, gets so full of dust that you can see your footsteps on the floor; Í'm getting the hang of how to negotiate and bargain in the souks of Deira and Bur Dubai, my favorite parts of the city; late afternoon and evening are becoming my favorite moments of the day and now, instead of having a nap (like I used to when I was living in Sao Paulo), I go out to see the stretched shadows on the ground; and every hour spent in this futuristic test-tube, I feel more and more I'm becoming part of the experience.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Adapted from the article &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/02/dubai-pegando-o-jeito.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dubai: pegando o jeito&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;published on 06/02/2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Dubai:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-day-trip-boat-ride-oman-coast.html"&gt;Day trip from Dubai: a boat ride along the coast of Oman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/dubai-20-places-to-eat-and-drink-alcohol.html"&gt;20 places to eat and drink (alcohol&amp;nbsp;inclusive) in Dubai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/ferrarri-world-abu-dhabi-fastest-roller-coaster-of-the-world.html"&gt;Ferrari World, in Abu Dhabi: 240 km/h in the fastest roller coasterf in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/how-the-resorts-in-dubai-became-europe-wannabes-in-the-desert.html"&gt;Resorts in Dubai: the "Europe wannabe" desert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/dubai-mall-biggest-mall-in-world.html"&gt;Dubai Mall, the biggest mall in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Pensando
em Orlando, sempre vem à ideia de disfrutar tantos parques junto à família mas,
o que vamos comentar hoje, é que esta cidade possui vários outlets . Com
certeza, se tornará irresistível não comprar muito e por isso, nossa dica é
preparar-se com um carro grande, como uma minivan ou van, para comportar
confortavelmente sua família e sua bagagem na próxima ida a Orlando. Este tipo
de veículo é muito procurado, portanto, para economizar no aluguel de van e
sobrar mais dinheiro para as compras, faça sua reserva em &lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.milescarrentalorlando.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
com antecipação e, melhor ainda, economia também, não é mesmo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Bom,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;se você gosta das
marcas: Abercrombie &amp;amp; Fitch, para homens modernos e com estilo; ou ainda,
Aéropostale, para mulheres ou homens; GameStop, American Eagle, Apple,
AT&amp;amp;T, Bahama Breeze, Banana Republic, Barnes &amp;amp; Noble, Bath &amp;amp; Body
Works, Finish Line, GapBody, GapKids, GNC, Hollister Co., jcpenney, LensCrafters,
Lids, Limited, Macy's, PacSun, Perfumania, RadioShack, Sears, Sunglass e muito
mais, você encontrará no &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Altamonte Mall&lt;/b&gt;
que fica na 451 East Altamonte Drive, FL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0MmTaUZ-v84/UUv4p-jETJI/AAAAAAAADmI/xYC7FAoh5jY/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0MmTaUZ-v84/UUv4p-jETJI/AAAAAAAADmI/xYC7FAoh5jY/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Church Street Station&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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 &lt;w:wrap anchorx="margin" anchory="margin" type="square"&gt;
&lt;/w:wrap&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Outro lugar muito famoso é o &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Church Street Station&lt;/b&gt;. É&amp;nbsp;enorme e possui
várias lojas de marcas reconhecidas mundialmente mas,&amp;nbsp;se destaca, mesmo,&amp;nbsp;pelo seu
complexo de entretenimento artístico&amp;nbsp;Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium,
com boa música de Jazz e bailarinas de Can-Can.&amp;nbsp;Se&amp;nbsp;prefere o som de hip hop,
dance e eletrônica, visite Phineas Phogg's Balloon Works. Para conferir um
bom teatro, a dica é Cheyenne Saloon and Opera House.&amp;nbsp;Tem para todos os
gostos em um só lugar. O endereço é: 129 W Church St, Orlando, FL 32801, bem no
centro de Orlando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D-3VC2NeG4M/UUv4qyCPy3I/AAAAAAAADmU/xZjzKe7Ah54/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D-3VC2NeG4M/UUv4qyCPy3I/AAAAAAAADmU/xZjzKe7Ah54/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Florida Mall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Procurando
pelas marcas como The Gap, Swatch, JCPenny e Banana Republic, com certeza
o endereço&amp;nbsp;é o&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Florida Mall&lt;/b&gt;, com essas e outras
200&amp;nbsp;lojas de marcas famosas. Confira no endereço: 8001 S. Orange Blossom
Trail, Orlando, FL 32809. Ou se quiser fazer aquelas boas compras em Victoria’s
Secret, Radio Shack, Dillards, dê uma passada no Orlando Fashion Square, no
endereço 3201 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32803 que funciona das 10:00am
até as 21:00.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Agora
se esta buscando grandes promoções da marca Nike e Reebok, não perca e faça
suas compras no &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Orlando Premium Outlets
– International Dr.&lt;/b&gt;. Antes conhecido como Belz Factory Outlet World e
Prime, é um grande shopping com muita variedade, mais de 170 lojas e, com
certeza, encherá seu porta malas de compras com muita economia. O endereço é:
4951 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V0hln0nEj3E/UUv4mxzOVjI/AAAAAAAADl8/UaTHDY4yR4g/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="160" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V0hln0nEj3E/UUv4mxzOVjI/AAAAAAAADl8/UaTHDY4yR4g/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Premium Outlets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k0ChI3kSWvg/UUv4oVovwnI/AAAAAAAADmE/SO45b6l3ihc/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k0ChI3kSWvg/UUv4oVovwnI/AAAAAAAADmE/SO45b6l3ihc/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Winter Garden Village&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Se
esta buscando sair do tradicional, mas aproveitar ótimas ofertas, existe aí,
pertinho de Orlando a 50 min de carro, o &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Winter
Garden Village&lt;/b&gt;, onde&amp;nbsp;há varias grifes -&amp;nbsp;tanto de roupas e utensílios para
seu lar, além de cosméticos e praça de alimentação. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;O endereço é
3251 Daniels Road, Winter Garden - FL 34787, lá encontrará marcas como: Lowe’s,
Ross Dress for Less, Dress Barn, Ulta cosmetics, Best Buy, GNC, New York &amp;amp;
Co, Bath &amp;amp; Beyond e muito mais.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Temos certeza que um carro grande não será nada exagerado para te
ajudar nesta maratona de compras em Orlando e voltar para o Brasil com ótimos
presentes e recordação.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Post patrocinado por Miles Car Rental Miami&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Miami, Orlando e Florida:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2009/11/orcando-orlando.html"&gt;Orçando Orlando&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2009/11/orlando-planning-kit.html"&gt;Orlando Planning Kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/06/o-que-nao-da-par-perder-em-orlando.html"&gt;Orlando: o que não dá pra perder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/11/compras-e-sacoleiragem-na-florida.html"&gt;Compras e sacoleiragem na Flórida&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/quando-se-torna-necessario-alugar-um.html"&gt;Quando se torna necessário se alugar um carro em Miami&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Sri Lanka was elected the best country to visit on 2013 by Lonely Planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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The way back from any trip always makes&amp;nbsp;me a bit sad, but this time... I guess it was&amp;nbsp;something different. I came back from Sri Lanka utterly in love with that place.&lt;br /&gt;
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The choice of the destination was weird, the name even more. Some time ago, even though I heard about it, I barely knew where it was and what was going on there. Now, I know that I never wanted so much to stay longer and go deeper in&amp;nbsp;the culture of a country.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sri Lanka is a way bigger nation than the Island that involves it. India, the giant neighbor to the north, makes some shadows - not only physically, but as a much more well know tourist destination. But the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;old Ceylon is on the rise again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;since&amp;nbsp;the civil war, that lasted 25 years,&amp;nbsp;came&amp;nbsp;to an end on 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ancient ruins,&amp;nbsp;virgin beaches, secret temples, abundant nature, european colonial architecture transformed by the exotic&amp;nbsp;colors and habits of Asia and, mainly, peace, made tourism flourish and reach 40% increasing rates on the number of visitors every year.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tiny roads with only one path going and another one coming back connect the attractions that spread all over the country - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;a 250km trip, for instance, can take&amp;nbsp;up to 9&amp;nbsp;hours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Everything depends on the weather and the &lt;em&gt;events&lt;/em&gt;. Traffic can get terrible because some miles ahead somebody decided to get stuck. And when I say decided, I mean it:&amp;nbsp;it should be very hard to make an elephant change his mind when he doesn't wanna move.&lt;br /&gt;
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Or maybe its saturday, sacred day of Buddhism and, also, for the &lt;em&gt;templecar&lt;/em&gt; to drop by tiny and needy villages that don't even have their own temples. If people miss the chance, they are only goona get the next one in&amp;nbsp;a week.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vSVSUccw8kk/UJ-tdlqqABI/AAAAAAAAC0E/gkuEBejYT1M/s1600/sri_lanka_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vSVSUccw8kk/UJ-tdlqqABI/AAAAAAAAC0E/gkuEBejYT1M/s400/sri_lanka_16.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Is there anything more asian than a spoiled Coke advertisement?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yrWc9ljBB0Q/UJ-tr9FrhSI/AAAAAAAAC0U/4UqDH1lyXdM/s1600/sri_lanka_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="337" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yrWc9ljBB0Q/UJ-tr9FrhSI/AAAAAAAAC0U/4UqDH1lyXdM/s400/sri_lanka_7.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;There is! Barefoot pilgrims wearing white praying in a millenial temple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Tell me if so much good stuff, all comprised in a small island and, at the same time, with so&amp;nbsp;messed up ways to&amp;nbsp;get there, don't smell like adventure.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's good to remember that the long hours on the troubled roads are far&amp;nbsp;of being boring. There's no express highways, only service roads, with life happening all over and all the way down. It's along the roads that&amp;nbsp;you have&amp;nbsp;the real Sri Lanka and the &lt;em&gt;sinhala's&lt;/em&gt; everyday, right there in front of you, without any embarassment or make up.&lt;br /&gt;
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But when you reach the destinations, you get exactly the opposite: until you see what you looking for, it's needed to go through a long ritual. To get to the top of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Sigiriya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fort, for example - the ruins of a old city in Ceylon, on the top of a two thousand years old volcanic rock -, it takes some time. The roughly two hours of climbing up the stairs keep on increasing your expectations&amp;nbsp;and show you that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;being there, making that path, is so or more amazing than the final point&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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And finding a leopard - the more difficult animal to spot during a safari - at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Yala Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is also not as easy as you can imagine, when the most remarkable information about the reserve is that it has the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;biggest population of leopards in the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d3BnLzuSKPY/UJ-tDDBkvxI/AAAAAAAACzk/EQkQjuUDjG0/s1600/sri_lanka_20.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="261" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d3BnLzuSKPY/UJ-tDDBkvxI/AAAAAAAACzk/EQkQjuUDjG0/s400/sri_lanka_20.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Climbing up the staris&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;Sigiriya...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bz1IWaP6lGw/UJ-tTzGuTOI/AAAAAAAACz0/ZxrwrkWNZIU/s1600/sri_lanka_18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bz1IWaP6lGw/UJ-tTzGuTOI/AAAAAAAACz0/ZxrwrkWNZIU/s400/sri_lanka_18.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;The ruins and the view from the top are the reward&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--RzXtAfkLeg/UJ-tY5m6szI/AAAAAAAACz8/cTdT9gg69WA/s1600/sri_lanka_17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--RzXtAfkLeg/UJ-tY5m6szI/AAAAAAAACz8/cTdT9gg69WA/s400/sri_lanka_17.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Yala Park: the female leopard was far and&amp;nbsp;shy, but showed up after some time&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Last registers of the old camera, before I lost it in Kandy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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The second safari I've ever done and the second one that retires my camera, by the way. During the first, on 2008, I had a really crap one that I left behind after missing the chance to capture so many incredible moments. And during this one, I lost my camera the day before the safari began. Coincidently&amp;nbsp;(or not), I was thinking about getting a better one once I get back from the trip -&amp;nbsp;who knows&amp;nbsp;the camera heard it, felt offended and left me before the moment.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lucky me I was&amp;nbsp;well accompanied - my girlfriend (and favorite photographer) made the pictures. But now, when I see them, I don't know if I should feel relieved or jealous.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Sri Lanka:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;span id="goog_1584144387"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1584144391"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/travel-sri-lanka-is-easy-how-to-map-your-route.html"&gt;Travelling around Sri Lanka &lt;span id="goog_1584144383"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1584144384"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;is very easy. See how to map your route&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="goog_1584144392"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1584144388"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/sri-lanka-where-to-go-to-find-what.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: where to go to find what you're looking for&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/I-did-in-Sri-Lanka.html"&gt;Happened to me in Sri Lanka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/sri-lanka-india-level-easy.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: India level easy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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E eis que a segunda nojentisse do&amp;nbsp;Esvaziando a Mochila, no&amp;nbsp;ano, é lançada! Agora todas as fotos do blog vão ser uploadadas para o Flickr!&lt;br /&gt;
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A verdade é que a primeira idéia&amp;nbsp;de 2013, escrever em inglês, ainda está engatinhando, devido a 99% dos textos ainda não estarem traduzidos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas subir as fotos é só questão de tempo, já que todas elas estão editadas e prontas.&amp;nbsp;Alguns álbuns já estão subidos e apareceu um ícone do Flickr ali do lado, junto com o do&amp;nbsp;Twitter e o feed de atualizações&amp;nbsp;=D&lt;br /&gt;
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E já que estamos falando de imagem, chega de ler e escrever! Direto pro link do Flickr que já tem coisa lá: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/esvaziandoamochila/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/esvaziandoamochila/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Veja também:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/01/esvaziando-mochila-agora-tambem-em.html"&gt;Esvaziando a Mochila agora também em inglês&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;National Gallery, na Trafalgar Square, em Londres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Toda grande cidade&amp;nbsp;tem sua lista de melhores atrações de graça.&amp;nbsp;Em Londres, a diferença é que, mesmo que a lista contasse com as atrações pagas, os lugares que não te cobram um centavo sequer ainda estariam inclusos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Londres é uma cidade verdadeiramente cara, mas o Esvaziando a Mochila e o &lt;a href="http://www.skyscanner.com.br/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Buscador de Passagens Aéreas Skyscanner&lt;/a&gt; mostram como&amp;nbsp;é fácil balancear as contas contando com tanta coisa boa pra fazer na faixa.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Outros posts da mini-série:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/como-baratear-viagem-europa-independente.html"&gt;Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa cap.1: viagem independente&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/como-viajar-barato-para-a-europa-nao-custa-nada.html"&gt;Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa cap.3: não custa nada!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;British museum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Há não tantos séculos assim, os ingleses costumavam&amp;nbsp;invadir metade do mundo e saquear até não poder mais.&amp;nbsp;De certa forma, resolveram devolver tudo - coleções de tesouros gregos, egípcios, romanos, indianos, persas e de todo o planeta estão expostos em&amp;nbsp;exposições permanentes do maior museu do Reino Unido, o British Museum. Recebendo cerca de 6 milhões de visitas por ano, é considerado o primeiro&amp;nbsp;museu gratuito do mundo, desde que abriu as portas, há mais de&lt;br /&gt;
250 anos.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Todos os dias, 10:00 às 17:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sextas até as 20:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://www.britishmuseum.org/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Houses of Parliament&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Houses of Parliament, Palácio de Westminster ou simplesmente aquela construção abaixo do Big Ben, é onde funciona o Parlamento Inglês. Qualquer cidadão, britânico ou não, tem o direito de assistir, ao vivo, aos debates e discussões dos parlamentares, seja qual for o assunto. Para estrangeiros, a regra é um pouco mais rígida: tem de se tentar o lugar no próprio dia, formando fila e sem garantia nenhuma. Se sua visita for em mês de recesso dos políticos ingleses, não desanime: é possível visitar o interior do palácio em tour guiado.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dias e horários variábeis, de acordo com a estação e a programação da casa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Parlamento de Londres&amp;nbsp;(Houses of Parliament)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;National Gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Localizada na icônica Trafalgar Square, a National Gallery é como se fosse uma filial do British Museum que, por ter um acervo tão grandioso, acabou tendo que abrir seus derivados. Pense em um artista famoso, aqueles que qualquer um conhce, independente do gosto por arte ou não. Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Picasso, Monet? Estão todos lá e acompanhados de Gauguin, van Eyck, Rubens e outros nomes que soam familiares até em Marte.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Todos os dias, 10:00 às 18:00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sextas 10:00 às 21:00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Essas 3 sugestões&amp;nbsp;são, sem erro, de agrado do público em geral. Uma hora gasta em qualquer um deles, até pra quem não é muito chegado em museu, passa bem rápido e dá uma noção geral do que aconteceu e está acontecendo em Londres.&lt;br /&gt;
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Agora, pra quem gosta de uma tarde cultural, seja pelo prazer de estar numa bela exposição ou por um gosto específico, a lista cresce fácil com a inclusão do &lt;i&gt;Natural History Museum&lt;/i&gt; e o&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Science Museum&lt;/i&gt;, ideais para crianças;&amp;nbsp;e o &lt;i&gt;Victoria &amp;amp; Albert Museum&lt;/i&gt; (museu de decoração e design através dos tempos); e o meu preferido, &lt;i&gt;Tate Modern&lt;/i&gt;, museu de arte moderna e vanguardista. &lt;br /&gt;
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No site oficial do Turismo de Londres, há a lista completa de atrações gratuitas da cidade (&lt;a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/tag/free-attractions"&gt;http://www.visitlondon.com/tag/free-attractions&lt;/a&gt;), incluindo museus, galerias, parques e lugares históricos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Busque agora as &lt;a href="http://www.skyscanner.com.br/" rel="nofollow"&gt;passagens aéreas mais baratas para Londres, pelo Skyscanner&lt;/a&gt;, e não perca a chance de visitar essa cidade incrível!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Veja também o primeiro post da série: &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/como-baratear-viagem-europa-independente.html"&gt;Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa: viagem independente&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;e aguarde&amp;nbsp;o terceiro e&amp;nbsp;último espisódio!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ps: artigo modificado por em 06/03/2013, por solicitação do patrocindor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Londres, Reino Unido&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Londres, conhecida como uma das capitais do mundo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;O Rio Tâmisa em Londres, sendo observado pelo Parlamento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre Londres:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/09/londres-real-troca-da-guarda.html"&gt;Londres real: a troca da guarda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/10/londres-me-paga.html"&gt;Londres me paga: quanto custa visitar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/06/olimpiadas-2012-londres-e-alem.html"&gt;Inglaterra: Londres e além&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/09/londres-e-o-mundo-agora-faz-sentido.html"&gt;Londres é o mundo, agora faz sentido&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/09/fotografe-o-big-ben.html"&gt;Fotografe o Big Ben&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre a Inglaterra:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/05/inglaterra-por-cantos-nao-tao.html"&gt;Por cantos não tão conhecidos da Inglaterra: Birmingham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/06/inglaterra-por-mais-cantos.html"&gt;Por mais cantos desconhecidos da Inglaterra: Newcastle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/08/bate-volta-de-londres-stratford-upon.html"&gt;Stratford upon Avon: a cidade onde nasceu Shakespeare, a um bate-volta de Londres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre viajar barato:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/09/barateie-sua-viagem-cuidando-da.html"&gt;Barateie sua viagem cuidando da logística&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/quarto-de-hotel-o-que-pode-levar.html"&gt;Quarto de hotel: o que pode ou não pegar/usar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/12/meu-cartao-nao-funcionou-no-exterior-e.html"&gt;Como usar cartões de crédito e débito no exterior (e o que fazer se não der certo)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/11/como-evitar-sacanagens-contra-turistas.html"&gt;Como evitar sacanagens contra turistas, principalmente na primeira viagem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EuyTB5LTh8U/USze9rsjGhI/AAAAAAAADhw/i284-OqHmNI/s1600/madri_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EuyTB5LTh8U/USze9rsjGhI/AAAAAAAADhw/i284-OqHmNI/s400/madri_11.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Madri, Espanha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viajar para Europa é possível! O buscador de &lt;a href="http://www.skyscanner.com.br/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;passagens aéreas Skyscanner&lt;/a&gt; e o Esvaziando a Mochila, que sempre acreditaram nisso, explicam como fazer sua viagem mais barata em uma minissérie de 3 posts que vão fazer seu bolso acreditar também.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Mito por mito, vamos quebrar os dogmas que fazem com que&amp;nbsp;as pessoas&amp;nbsp;que estão a fim de viajar acabem desistindo por falta de informação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nesta primeira parte, vamos tentar convencer você a desistir do pacote turístico que está duro de pagar, até parcelando, e partir pra uma viagem independente, planejando o orçamento desde o começo.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;City tour não&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;! Pacotes turísticos vêm, quase sempre, cheios de tours desinteressantes, mas os CityTour são os campeões. Você acaba indo para lugares que: ou você não quer ir, ou você gostaria de levar o seu tempo sem ter alguém dizendo o que fazer e quando. &lt;br /&gt;
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Pagar uma grana pra dar uma voltinha de carro achando que é possível "&lt;i&gt;fazer&lt;/i&gt;" Munique ou Paris, inteiras, das 7 às 11 da manhã? Absolutamente, não!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Transporte público na Europa, principalmente metrô,&amp;nbsp;é fácil de usar, barato e, dentro das cidades, te leva pra 100% dos lugares sem dor de cabeça.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Cuide da logística&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; pessoalmente: compre a passagem aérea pelo Skyscanner em vez de procurar um agente de viagens. É muito mais fácil e você tem, instantaneamente, todas as opções possíveis para o trecho desejado e o preço, em cada companhia. Neste outro post,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/09/barateie-sua-viagem-cuidando-da.html" target="_blank"&gt;Barateie sua viagem cuidando da logística&lt;/a&gt;, há mais dicas.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Se por um lado as agências parcelam, você vai ver que &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;juntar a grana primeiro&amp;nbsp;e viajar depois&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; é um alívio, quando você volta e sabe que está tudo quitado. Planeje, compre tudo com antecedência e faça sua viagem sem contas.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B9uJq-pwLG8/USzhKtww8sI/AAAAAAAADiA/Yy6NJ5z-3Zw/s1600/roma_43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B9uJq-pwLG8/USzhKtww8sI/AAAAAAAADiA/Yy6NJ5z-3Zw/s400/roma_43.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Roma, Itália&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Na primeira vez, qualquer acomodação vale a pena&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Mesmo que se tenha que dormir no chão, essa Europa não pode escapar. Além de opções baratas como albergues e pousadas, existem, hoje, opções super baratas como couch surfing - literalmente, um aluguel de sofá.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Em um pacote, o hotel escolhido pela agência pode acabar não atendendo a nenhum do &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;critérios que você prioriza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, seja ele localização ou conforto.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vbdfGOcYnpE/USzgZkVR_yI/AAAAAAAADh4/QP1jq0eDPpI/s1600/praga_36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vbdfGOcYnpE/USzgZkVR_yI/AAAAAAAADh4/QP1jq0eDPpI/s400/praga_36.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Praga, República Tcheca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro que há exceções e, em nenhum momento,&amp;nbsp;a intenção deste post&amp;nbsp;é desvalorizar os serviços prestados por agências de turismo. &lt;br /&gt;
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Mas pra quem&amp;nbsp;gosta de&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.skyscanner.com.br/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;planejamento de viagens&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;e eu, honestamente, acho que é aí que está metade da graça, é&amp;nbsp;regra: viajar independente sai mais barato.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Continua nos outros posts da mini série:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;- &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/como-baratear-viagem-europa-londres-de-graca.html"&gt;Como deixar sua viagem para a Europa mais barata 2: Londres de graça&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/04/como-viajar-barato-para-a-europa-nao-custa-nada.html"&gt;Como baratear sua viagem para a Europa 3: não custa nada &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;
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Mais sobre viajar barato:&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/09/barateie-sua-viagem-cuidando-da.html" target="_blank"&gt;Barateie sua viagem cuidando da logística&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/06/descubra-o-que-vai-comer-na-viagem.html" target="_blank"&gt;Descubra antes da viagem&amp;nbsp;o que você vai comer no avião&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/quarto-de-hotel-o-que-pode-levar.html" target="_blank"&gt;Quarto de hotel: o que pode ou não pode usar/pegar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/12/meu-cartao-nao-funcionou-no-exterior-e.html" target="_blank"&gt;Como usar cartões de crédito e débito no exterior (e o que fazer se nao der certo)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/11/como-evitar-sacanagens-contra-turistas.html" target="_blank"&gt;Como evitar sacanagens contra turistas, principalmente na primeira viagem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mais sobre Destinos na Europa:&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/search/label/Lisboa"&gt;Lisboa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/search/label/Praga"&gt;Praga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/search/label/Roma"&gt;Roma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/search/label/Londres"&gt;Londres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/search/label/Viena"&gt;Viena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/p/europa.html"&gt;Todos os posts sobre todos os&amp;nbsp;destinos na Europa&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N-4xgtGFf2A/USaUTXGoNyI/AAAAAAAADcQ/2O9y2-EpqPk/s1600/computer_cartoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N-4xgtGFf2A/USaUTXGoNyI/AAAAAAAADcQ/2O9y2-EpqPk/s400/computer_cartoon.jpg" width="367" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;fonte: http://pamtremble.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Todo mundo pode ser autodidata, hoje em dia. Não precisa mais comprar o jornal todo domingo pra ganhar um fascículo da Larousse e nem se matricular em curso intensivo de cem horas por dia, pra enfiar tudo no cérebro de uma vez só.&lt;br /&gt;
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Basta por no Google. Rapidinho, a resposta esta lá, com toda a informação que você procura. E todo mundo pode ser guru também, já que vivemos numa sociedade de blogueiros. Se o mundo canibal do capitalismo destrói empregos que são substituídos por máquinas, essa são as mesmas máquinas que geram a possibilidade de trabalhar em casa, ganhar tempo e dinheiro.&lt;br /&gt;
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Criar um blog é um impulso. Manter um blog é um prazer - pra mim, do tamanho do mundo. Mas que tem a parte chata, tem. Não é escrever, não é editar as fotos, não é mexer no layout e nem responder emails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A pedra no sapato de quem publica conteúdo na internet, hoje, chama-se SEO, ou Search Engine Optimization. Um nome chique para um fator extremamente simples, que nada mais é o quanto o Google gosta do seu site ou não. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Criar conteúdo original, pensar em um bom título e ilustrá-lo não é mais suficiente. Pode até ser que, no final, esses sejam os fatores que mais vão pressionar o gatilho da arma que está apontada para o seu pé. Você pode, por exemplo, por a bunda na cadeira e pensar a tarde inteira pra chegar num título a altura daquele texto que está o fino da gramática, com começo instigante e final surpreendente. Se o Googloráculo não for com a cara, não adianta - o artigo não será encontrado.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
De certa forma, é correto. Muita gente quer só achar um sinônimo de uma palavra ou um endereço e pronto. De outra, detona completamente a criatividade.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
De que adianta fazer&amp;nbsp;um relato minucioso e tentar se livrar de clichês, quando o Google gosta mesmo é de divulgar os resultados dos "&lt;em&gt;o que fazer&lt;/em&gt;", "&lt;em&gt;onde ir&lt;/em&gt;" e outras listas em geral.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mídia impressa e online são diferentes, é verdade. E tem que se respeitar isso. Mas separá-las como se houvesse um abismo é um inverter a ordem das coisas - não se pode se importar mais com "&lt;em&gt;como falar&lt;/em&gt;" que o "&lt;em&gt;o que se quer dizer&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Se não vira uma gincana. Ou ainda pior, um Big Brother, porque as regras mudam no meio do jogo. Hoje seu site está bom, amanhã não está mais. E toda aquela estrutura feita bonitinha pra agradar o&amp;nbsp;Senhor dos Sites&amp;nbsp;tem que ser remodelada, integralmente, pra não virar lixo eletrônico. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
SEO o Google não gostar, a gente não chega lá.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PS: este não é um blog sobre tecnologia! Isso é só um desabafo!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Queremos que sua próxima viagem
para Miami,&amp;nbsp;a terra do sol, seja não apenas de&amp;nbsp;visitas às ruas mais conhecidas,
shoppings e praias, assim como também conhecer lugares como museus que trazem
uma referência cultural e explicam um pouco do&amp;nbsp;porquê desta cidade ter tanta
variedade e miscigenação atualmente. Para isso, aproveite esse tour de carro ou
ainda numa SUV. Dependendo de quantos forem os membros da família, será preciso uma minivan ou
Van por causa das bagagens. Conseguir carro barato em Miami para alugar é
fácil, só precisa escolher o lugar certo e ver as vantagens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.milescarrentalmiami.com/aluguel-de-vans-em-miami.php"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Faça seu orçamento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt; grátis na Miles Car Rental Miami, uma empresa americana com atendimento
em português, o que facilita e muito para planejar e escolher o mais adequado
em tamanho, preço, conforto e necessidade. Esta empresa possui preços e opções
realmente competitivas. Vale a pena entrar no site deles e conferir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Isso te ajudará a
fazer seu roteiro sem gastar muito dinheiro e chegar na hora certa nos lugares.
Com certeza já escutou uma lista de vários lugares badalados, mas nenhum para
curtir com sua família. Aqui vão algumas sugestões:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LEvqGTszyg8/USNr0v0gvsI/AAAAAAAADZs/sfDH4I-5xXQ/s1600/Gold+Coast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LEvqGTszyg8/USNr0v0gvsI/AAAAAAAADZs/sfDH4I-5xXQ/s400/Gold+Coast.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Gold Coast Railroad Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Gold Coast Railroad Museum&lt;/b&gt; – Para quem gosta de trens, este museu
possui uma grande variedade de vagões históricos, além de muitos trens de
brinquedo que são disponibilizados para as crianças se divertirem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w13JfKp_Txk/USNryUH3UmI/AAAAAAAADZk/lVGmqODi_MM/s1600/dezer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w13JfKp_Txk/USNryUH3UmI/AAAAAAAADZk/lVGmqODi_MM/s400/dezer.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Dezer Collection Museum and Pavillion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Dezer Collection Museum and Pavillion&lt;/b&gt; - O “bum” do momento porque
se trata de um museu de carros exclusivos, modelos adquiridos pelo empresário
Michael Dezer, que agora disponibiliza a todos fanáticos por carros, uma
coleção que varia desde modelos dos anos 50 até mesmo modelos usados
originalmente nos filmes do Batman, Miami Vice e muitos outros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hl9u67XcY2k/USRBdUEtuZI/AAAAAAAADbE/4kYGz2S8CaA/s1600/Coral+Gables+Merrick+House+Front+Elevation.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hl9u67XcY2k/USRBdUEtuZI/AAAAAAAADbE/4kYGz2S8CaA/s400/Coral+Gables+Merrick+House+Front+Elevation.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Coral Glabes Merrick House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Coral Glabes Merrick House&lt;/b&gt; – Antiga casa da família Merrick que
virou museu, onde mantiveram os móveis objetos pessoais exatamente como os
donos deixaram na época.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EhGK3HJxue4/USNruRicKeI/AAAAAAAADZU/_10aP40uri4/s1600/Ancient+spanish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EhGK3HJxue4/USNruRicKeI/AAAAAAAADZU/_10aP40uri4/s400/Ancient+spanish.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Ancient Spanish Monastery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ancient Spanish Monastery&lt;/b&gt; – Esse mosteiro também é muito
frequentado, pois foi construído em Segóvia, na Espanha, na época de 41, mas em
1925 foi demolido e suas pedras foram levadas até North Miami Beach pelo
americano Willian Randolph Hearst, desde então esta aberto aos visitantes por
um valor razoável.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nb0LNQsXkdg/USNruvELLFI/AAAAAAAADZY/cRkXnbCmNE0/s1600/bass+museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="177" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nb0LNQsXkdg/USNruvELLFI/AAAAAAAADZY/cRkXnbCmNE0/s400/bass+museum.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Bass Museum of Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Bass Museum of Art&lt;/b&gt; – Quem gosta de pinturas barrocas e
renascentistas esse é o lugar perfeito e mais importante. Conhecido não apenas
por possuir artes de grandes pintores como Domenico Ghirlandaio, como também uma
coleção do Egito com sarcófagos e utensílios de mais de 03 mil A.C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nqV7RnyT2w4/USRBgaRLNOI/AAAAAAAADbM/ymRkeOhltXk/s1600/Miami+Children+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="317" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nqV7RnyT2w4/USRBgaRLNOI/AAAAAAAADbM/ymRkeOhltXk/s400/Miami+Children+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Miami Children's Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Miami Children’s Museum&lt;/b&gt; – Fundado em 1983, mas aberto para
visitantes apenas em 2003, este museu sem fins lucrativos&amp;nbsp;diverte todas
as crianças com jogos e musicais, no melhor estilo aprenda brincando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uec7KPo429Y/USNsAc4VWzI/AAAAAAAADZ8/g7qs9A236j8/s1600/MiaSCI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uec7KPo429Y/USNsAc4VWzI/AAAAAAAADZ8/g7qs9A236j8/s400/MiaSCI.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Miami Science Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.milescarrentalmiami.com/pt_miami-science-museum-2.php"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Miami Science Museum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt; – Conhecido
pela sua coleção de aves rapinas mais raras do mundo. Além disso, há
apresentação no planetário, onde você&amp;nbsp;pode transformar sua energia corporal em
eletricidade, além de peças de teatro, exposições, e muita ciência ao vivo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Temos certeza, que escolhendo uma
ou todas destas opções,&amp;nbsp;os seus&amp;nbsp;momentos em família serão&amp;nbsp;muito agradáveis
e inesquecíveis. Não esqueça que segurança na hora de viajar é essencial: leve
sempre uma garrafa de água, uma troca nova de roupas e itens específicos como
protetor solar, óculos escuros, tênis confortáveis, sua câmera fotográfica e
muita disposição.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Post patrocinado por Miles Car Rental Miami&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Mais sobre Miami e Orlando:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2009/11/orlando-planning-kit.html"&gt;Orando Planning Kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/11/compras-e-sacoleiragem-na-florida.html"&gt;Compras e sacoleiragem na Flórida&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Escultura gigante na entrada do Museu Gutenberg, fazendo alusão a um tipo móvel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Um pouco sobre Frankfurt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Antes do aeroporto de Frankfurt, já havia a cidade. O centro econômico da Alemanha é&amp;nbsp;conhecido apenas por ser um hub gigante de gente fazendo conexão - uma esnobação extremamente injusta. Se não é pra ser incluída numa viagem curta, Frankfurt também não faz visitante nenhum se arrepender de passar uma noite por lá.&lt;br /&gt;
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Não há cidade com mais arranha-céus na Alemanha mas, no meião deles, a cidade velha revela, mesmo em um dia útil, uma calmaria que te faz duvidar que&amp;nbsp;ali&amp;nbsp;funcionam os maiores bancos e negócios&amp;nbsp;da Europa.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hábitos interioranos como fazer compras em&amp;nbsp;pequenos armazéns e mercearias ainda são mantidos, a&amp;nbsp;comida é boa, a cerveja é melhor - isso já é motivo suficiente pra eu gostar de qualquer lugar. Mas Frankfurt ainda é mais especial. Foi na Alemanha, o terceiro país que eu visitei na vida, que&lt;br /&gt;
eu descobri como era um lugar que funcionava, que eu passei por bons apuros, que percebi que estereótipos são uma ignorância e que sair da rota convencional barateia e melhora demais uma viagem.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quando se imagina Frankfurt pela primeira vez, acho que o que vem na cabeça é algo como Londres. E talvez por não carregar responsabilidade alguma por corresponder a essa expectativa, Frankfurt surpreenda tanto. &lt;br /&gt;
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Mas como o assunto do post não é Frankfurt... vamos ao que interessa!&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas tem mais sobre a cidade neste outro post aqui: &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/08/frankfurt-existe-vida-alem-da-escala.html"&gt;Frankfurt, existe vida além da escala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Mainz e a Bíblia de Gutenberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Vários museus, pelo mundo todo, tem páginas soltas das bíblias impressas por Gutenberg e as tratam como tesouros. Imagine, então, aqueles dois livros que estavam na minha frente, feitos por volta de 1450, que foram basicamente o test-drive da criação da&amp;nbsp;imprensa.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mainz é uma cidade bonita, não muito grande. Mais pitoresca e ainda mais calma que Frankfurt. Tem a pracinha central, a arquitetura típica, o rio... mais uma daquelas cidadezinhas alemãs, o que já a faria merecedora da sua visita. Mas o que vale mesmo e&amp;nbsp;é obrigatório é o Museu Gutenberg.&lt;br /&gt;
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Não dá pra mentir: é pra quem gosta. Mas em compensação, qualquer profissional ou amante de artes fica besta. Seja por fazer algum trabalho relacionado&amp;nbsp;à imprensa, ou por gostar de uma foto bem tirada por hobby. A sala escura e com iluminação especial para não danificar as páginas frágeis, com os dois primeiros exemplares da Bíblia, em cores, são embasbacantes. A tiragem total desta bíblia não passou dos duzentos exemplares e levou cerca de 5 anos pra ficar pronta.&lt;br /&gt;
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O que me passava pela cabeça era a desconstrução da história toda: sem isso, não viria&amp;nbsp; máquina de escrever, não viria o computador, não haveria jornal ou internet, não ia ter blog ou livro de viagem.&lt;br /&gt;
Há muito material relacionado a viagem aliás: mapas de todos os estilos, dos mais caretas aos mais caricatos. Alguns bem artísticos, com processo de impressão complexo, com direito a todas as cores que magenta, ciano, amarelo e preto podem formar. Outros mais rascunhados, às vezes gravados em tocos de madeira por ser, talvez, o único recurso que o desenhista tivesse na hora.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eu estudei e adoro design e já ficava encantado como a identidade visual da Alemanha, que é a mesma em qualquer canto: seja para as sinalizações idênticas em todas as estações de trem ou as plaquinhas dos nomes de ruas, que são iguais e feitas da mesma forma há quase uma centena de anos, por serem tão eficientes e bonitas ao mesmo tempo. &lt;br /&gt;
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Mas a inspiração que dá ver um pouco da história de um cara como esse sua obra é uma das coisas que te motiva a nunca querer parar de viajar.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;De Frankfurt a Mainz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Do aeroporto de Frankfurt, a distância&amp;nbsp;é quase a mesma por trem, o que pode fazer você considerar até arranjar acomodação&amp;nbsp;em Mainz. Se estiver hospedado em Frankfurt, na estação principal de trem&amp;nbsp;- Hauptbahnhof -, pegue o S8, destino final Wiesbaden.&amp;nbsp;Ele para na estação principal de Mainz após cerca de meia hora.&lt;br /&gt;
Mapas são disponibilizados em postos de informação turística dentro da própria estação.&lt;br /&gt;
Website: &lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg-museum.de/index.php?id=29&amp;amp;L=1"&gt;Gutenberg Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mais sobre a Alemanha:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/08/alemanha-modo-de-usar.html"&gt;Alemanha: modo de usar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/08/frankfurt-existe-vida-alem-da-escala.html"&gt;Frankfurt: existe vida além da escala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/07/como-chegar-ao-neuschwanstein-o-castelo.html"&gt;Como chegar a Neuschwanstein, o castelo que inspirou até Walt Disney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/02/munique-qualquer-hora.html"&gt;Munique a qualquer hora&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/02/munique-qualquer-hora.html"&gt;Mais Berlim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/07/comemorre-o-vitorria-do-alemanha-sobrre.html"&gt;As melhores cervejas da Baviera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sri Lanka used to be so unknown, that the best clue you could ever give about it,&amp;nbsp;is that it is a country. It's small, way smaller than the so commented nation that influenced them the most throughout their history: India. But it's not and it's never been part of it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Because of the invasions and the imposing of culture for so many years, the physical stereotype is the same, but the country&amp;nbsp;is much less intimidating and people are more sweet. It's an island and therefore no borders.&lt;br /&gt;
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There's no caste system, since it's been abolished as soon as the constitution was modified together with the name of the country, that used to be called Ceylon until 1972.&lt;br /&gt;
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India is a consolidated touristic destination. Sri lanka is alternative.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's more innocent as well. Most of the smiles are still honest, as all of the other reactions of the "&lt;em&gt;sinhalas&lt;/em&gt;" have when treating a visitor. It could be a candy they are gonna offer you, it could be just a scared face -&amp;nbsp;but nobody ever ignores you.&lt;br /&gt;
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The growing up tourism is changing this panorama slowly, day by day. Taxi and tuk-tuk's&amp;nbsp;drivers already started to extrapolate, charging you ten times more then they would do from a local. However, tourism is the industry that could take a great part of this people out of misery - a tuk tuk ride, even billed in excess, doesn't cost more US$ 3,00.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just a reminder: tuk-tuk is that tricicle that any 10 years old kid would like to have. Small, colourful, noisy, easy to ride and full of hanging toys and gadgets, from the floor to the roof - labels, Buddhas, medals, shiny paintings, antennas and flags. In Sri Lanka, it's more popular than any car. There's even a beginning of tuk tuk tunning going on.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's funny, cheap, and drivers always have something interesting to say - besides their offer of city tours. Trips up to 3 or 4 hours - very common, since roads are terribly maintened - could be done in a tuk tuk without any problems. And if it sounds like it's too much adventurous, wait till you get the first bus with no a/c and closed windows.&lt;/div&gt;
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Seeing and being in Sri Lanka is a constant renovation of concepts. If I say that right on the first long&amp;nbsp;ride there, we had to stop in a restaurant along the road (nature calling), what's the picture that comes to your mind? Because when I say &lt;em&gt;restaurant&lt;/em&gt;, I mean a more than simple and fragile house, with no indications at all that it is a restaurant (our driver knew it was)&amp;nbsp;and space for no more than five skinny people. And &lt;em&gt;road&lt;/em&gt; means a tiny and&amp;nbsp;barely paved street , if it wasn't for the yellow stripe painted on the ground, that would be absolutely impossible to guess it's not a one way road.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the other side of the street, everybody was coming out to the door to see what was happening to&amp;nbsp;those whitey foreigners that decided to drop by. We were taking pictures of the place and they were taking pictures of us. The couple that was running the restaurant was really kind. Friendly and smiley, they brought us some turbid glasses and a&amp;nbsp;jug of hot water and, before we could ask for anything, we had on our table a full course: lentil curry, a fish curry and a dozen samosas stuffed with vegetables - everything extremely spicy.&amp;nbsp;"&lt;em&gt;It&amp;nbsp;helps to&amp;nbsp;kill the germs&lt;/em&gt;" - was the orientation of our driver, at the same time as he was serving us, teaching how to mix all that stuff in the same plate and what goes well with what. With no hesitation, he took the first piece of fish of his dish and ate with the hands. I followed up, showing off all my skill on&amp;nbsp;hand-eating.&lt;br /&gt;
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With my tongue and throat on fire after this so much pepper, tea was brought, in a typically british porcelain and with a incredible aroma (tea of Sri Lanka, still sold as "&lt;em&gt;pure Ceylon tea&lt;/em&gt;" is one of the most reputed and exported on the world). A sugar rush that elevated my diabetes risk on a 1000% and I must have left a grimace scape, cause our driver and adviser told me: - "&lt;em&gt;Be careful! It's not well sweetened&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;
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Hospitality of the couple and the patience of the driver, that were putting on their best effort to make us comfortable at every time were really touching. The bill for 3 people was a bit more than US$ 3,00 and when we offered 5, they didn't want to accept. Since this moment, whatever was about to happen, this trip was already worth it.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Tea is serious thing: in some hotels, you don't get your tea unless it's perfect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Details of a Hindu Temple: it's the second biggest religion in Sri Lanka and part of the indian Heritage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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The tea, the&amp;nbsp;pepper, the long road... it's&amp;nbsp;a constant circle in Sri Lanka: you have to stop cause you need a toilet, but to use the toilet you need to buy something; you eat something&amp;nbsp;extremely spicy and your mouth burns; so you ask for a tea, which comes with&amp;nbsp;heaps of sugar; back to the road and to kill the taste of the sugar, you drink lots of water and, a few kilometers later, you need another pit stop. Maybe that was how the tea and the spices became national&amp;nbsp;passions in the country. The toilets, definitely, are not the things that they are most proud of.&lt;/div&gt;
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British heritage, like the taste for tea, the talent to survive under whatever the circumstances&amp;nbsp;and the diversity of habits and religions are part of the indian culture, brought over to Sri Lanka for thousands of years. The hinduist temples and the extensive&amp;nbsp;platations that seem to finish afte the horizon, too. There's a lot in common between these countries and, exactly because of this, it's so easy to point the differences. I imagine that, for a &lt;em&gt;sinhala&lt;/em&gt;, being called indian causes the same effect that scottish have when they are called british.&lt;br /&gt;
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India level easy, like Sri Lanka was once described to me, is not so simple as that. But everything is so close, so affordable, so enchanting and so different, that trouble is gonna become just a small detail.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adapted from the article &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/11/sri-lanka-india-nivel-facil.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: a Índia nível fácil&lt;/a&gt;, published on 20/11/2012.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Sri Lanka:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/sri-lanka-why-you-have-to-go.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: why you have to go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/travel-sri-lanka-is-easy-how-to-map-your-route.html"&gt;Travelling around Sri Lanka is very easy. See how to map your route&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/sri-lanka-where-to-go-to-find-what.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: where to go to find what you're looking for&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/I-did-in-Sri-Lanka.html"&gt;Happened to me in Sri Lanka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Having the idea to travel to these too exotic places can be&amp;nbsp;intimidating sometimes. The distance, those lot of different habits and even the names are so weird, that we end up having&amp;nbsp;a misconception that travelling around there could be a hassle. But, actually, going for a trip around most of the asian countries, like Sri Lanka,&amp;nbsp;is very easy and stress free.&lt;br /&gt;
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Still, going there should not be allowed without two things: the first one is a printed guide, even for those who are not that interested on trip-planning, because there's plenty of hidden good stuff around; the second is the belief that everything that you read on the&amp;nbsp;guide is gonna work out.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sri Lanka is unpredictable and the charm of the country is not only on the things they created, but also on what they transformed. Time, for instance, is measured in a totally different manner than westerns are used to - the &lt;em&gt;sinhalas&lt;/em&gt; everyday problems&amp;nbsp;are supposed to be fixed with simple solutions, like I found out when I was negotiating a tuk tuk to leave the airport, in Colombo.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;"- Are we gonna get to train station on time to get the next one to Kandy?"&lt;br /&gt;"- Yes, of course.&amp;nbsp;But if you cannot make it, take the other one."&lt;br /&gt;"- When is it?"&lt;br /&gt;"- Tomorrow."&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Optmism and patience. It's good, indeed, when the shock comes right away. That was easier to get adapted when I came to know that I&amp;nbsp;would have to put off not only the shoes (mandatory on every buddhist and hinduist temple), but also the mask. Time to leave all the western common sense behind and play by their rules.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Is it worth to go on a dedicated trip?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Yes. Don't you get fooled by the size of the island, thinking it's possible to go here and there on quick day trips. A route around Sri Lanka, even extremely compacted, needs at least 10 days. That's the minimum to feel the taste of staying there. You can also combine with India or Maldives, but even 15 or 20 days of a dedicated trip can be filled up easily with no boredom.&lt;br /&gt;
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Besides, public transportation is bad and if your time is restricted, you'll lose a lot time here. Timings can be often changed without any notice also. But you don't have to give up on Sri Lanka if you're short of time:&amp;nbsp;add some bucks to your budget and hire drivers from place to place (just don't forget to bargain). And if comfort is not the biggestg priority, go for the tuk tuks and pay a third of the price.&lt;br /&gt;
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A lot of your time in Sri Lanka is spent on transportation. Moving around is part of the game and let your inner adventurer out. Luckily, that is far from being boring - if this adventure spirit moves us towards lost ruins, it's on the country's roads that you're gonna see the picture&amp;nbsp;of today.&lt;br /&gt;
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When we dropped by a fruit tent, we noticed there's was nobody there watchin. After some claps, the owner showed up, still&amp;nbsp;wrapping himself in a towel and the wet hair: - "I was showering!". He didn't hesitate to offer his hand for a firm and warm shake.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Find it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Europeans already found it. Actually, for british, for example,&amp;nbsp;Sri Lanka was never a secret. But even for those who used to consider the island an alternative destinantion, the scene is changing fast.&lt;br /&gt;
I'd guess one or two years for the country's&amp;nbsp;tourism history to change forever. Fisrt, because of the indication as the Best Country to Visit on 2013 made by Lonely Planet; second, because of the proximity with the Maldives, by far a most known and expensive choice. And it seems the country is willing to prepare itself for the mass tourism effect that is about to boom - highways are being planned and constructed all over the place.&lt;br /&gt;
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From Europe, some of the major companies reach Colombo&amp;nbsp;on straight chartered flights. The best connections are in the Middle East, where major companies fly there regularly from Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and even Kwait or Bahrein.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;How to map your route&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Everywhere in Sri Lanka is further than the mileage shows and closer than the supposed lots of hours that had to be spent on the road. Choose a bit of each or prioritize whatever you like the most - beaches, old ruins, hills, safaris, temples, trekking, etc. You'll find some suggestions of things to do and where to go&amp;nbsp;on the post: "&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/sri-lanka-where-to-go-to-find-what.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: where to go to find what you're looking for&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;
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Even picking several of these choices, the feeling that&amp;nbsp;something is missing is gonna catch you. Dont worry because: 1 - it's replaced for the satisfaction of living this experience; 2 - it's true and yes, something is really missing because it's just impossible to go everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;
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In a week, 10 days or a month in the country, you'll probably see more than any inhabitant, but don't be snobbish for the advice of the locals, always available to help.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Road&amp;nbsp;Kandy - Nuwara Ellya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Along the roads, it's all there: a jungle that is too massive, that sometimes you feel like night came down early; monks; some lakes flooding and overflowing and some completely dry; tuk tuks; elephants; monkeys; more than one meter long guanas; tractors... they have everything, but cars. And everything on the same path, because there's no other way - except for the opposite lane, which is often used for passing.&lt;/div&gt;
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The best to do is closing your eyes and just hear the bus that comes againt you as if it was crossing the inside of your car - or whatever other vehicle you're inside. The adventure is so priceless that I don't even know if I was happy to see all those construction and repairing&amp;nbsp;sites along the roads.&lt;/div&gt;
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Leaving &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Kandy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the most central city of Sri Lanka, towards the south, you'll have the most pleasant moments of the drive, seeing all the tea plantations making drawings on the hills as&amp;nbsp;long as you climb it down&amp;nbsp;- mainly to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Nuwara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ellya&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, two hours away. It's the most dangerous moment as well, since the path&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;full of&amp;nbsp;high cliffs and protection zero, just like those&amp;nbsp;paths surrounding mountains on the cartoons. Don't even think about making it during the night. It's too risky and you lose the best part, which is the views.&lt;br /&gt;
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As said before, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;the most efficient&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (not the cheapest)&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;way of tranportation in Sri Lanka is a private driver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, whatever his&amp;nbsp;vehicle is&amp;nbsp;- of course the size and the quality are gonna make a difference on the price. It's easy to find them everywhere, specially at the streets, and all of them are&amp;nbsp;willing to do business. Hiring a driver for the whole trip could be a way of making the price a bit lower, but think if it's worth to include somebody else during your whole journey, when you don't even know if you're gonna get along.&lt;br /&gt;
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Theres also frequent buses to all of the most searched destinations. Usually, they're&amp;nbsp;overcrowed and suffocating, but the price is proportional - from kandy to Anuradhapura, for example, the 130km are&amp;nbsp;traversed for no more than US$ 3,00.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Hindu temple&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;the area of&amp;nbsp;Pettah, Colombo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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It's an adventure, indeed, but there's&amp;nbsp; also a lot of comfort to be enjoyed. Don't you hesitate on leaving the cheapest hotel behind and go for a better one. It's good, still cheap and plays a big part of the good memories you're bringing with you on the way back. Fantastic service and hospitality mixed with a catastrophic decoration and not so glamourous maitenance are all about Asia and have to be experienced. And who doesn't like to have a nice erst after a day in a place where the heat by itself is enought to bring you to exhaustion.&lt;br /&gt;
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Try, also, the food served either at the big hotels or the bed &amp;amp; berakfast's. Almost everyone of them have their own restaurants, which are open for anybody, including non-guests. The food is great and&amp;nbsp;it's easier to try different stuff, since it's&amp;nbsp;usually served on buffets and&amp;nbsp;you can see what you're&amp;nbsp;eating before ordering.&lt;br /&gt;
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At least one train trip in Sri Lanka is mandatory: from Colombo to Kandy or the other way around. Colombo is the city where you are gonna see the country for the first and last time and Kandy is the cultural capital. Chances are that you're gonna end up&amp;nbsp;going to both of them&amp;nbsp; anyway, so you'll get the time not to miss this great moment of the trip&lt;br /&gt;
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The train Colombo-Kandy is a journey of roughly three hours and, no doubt, one of the best times during the whole trip. The wagons, that seem to be ready to derail at any moment, are old and noisy and the fans mounted on the ceiling are no more than a funny piece of decoration - the humid heat gets you sweating every single milimiter of your body.&lt;br /&gt;
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Out there, the scenery starts with the very poor houses built up glued to railway and, as long as Colombo is&amp;nbsp; being left behind, the rice plantations and a more green country takes over through your window.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the night comes down, it's impossible to see a thing and whatever is happening inside the train becomes&amp;nbsp;suddenly so&amp;nbsp;interesting. Half of the lights are weak, the other hald doensn't work. Street vendors hop on and off the train all the time, regardless the speed, how close the station platform and the wagons are ore how big are the baskets they carry on their heads.&lt;br /&gt;
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Timings, not like the buses, are respected. In this &lt;a href="http://www.seat61.com/SriLanka.htm"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;, here's a timetible for this and some other train lines in Sri Lanka, explaining the differences between wagons and classes. Think twice before doing economy at all costs: first class for US$ 9,00 is not something to find everyday (you book it online on &lt;a href="http://rajadhani.lk/"&gt;Rajadhani Express Website&lt;/a&gt;). In case it's full, second class is US$1,50&amp;nbsp; and still gives you the right to be seated. Third class&amp;nbsp;is busy and overcrowed- as if it was a magic trick, train doors are barely open and already there's no more seats anymore. Even standing, you&amp;nbsp;better don't put your feet off the ground, because you won't get the chance to bring it back there.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;1 - Temple of the Tooth, Kandy; 2 - Dambulla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Safety&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Sri lanka is generally very safe - even safer than a lot of European capitals. Crimes are rare, specially those involving intimidation or abuse. However, it's always good not to get contamined by "&lt;em&gt;travel-stupidity&lt;/em&gt;", thinking that nothing would ever happen. Insurance is also recommended, considering hospitals, medical centers, and the public health&amp;nbsp;are suffering a severe lack of care.&lt;br /&gt;
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Since not so long ago, visas were issued on arrival. Now, it's mandatory to apply online through &lt;a href="http://www.eta.gov.lk/slvisa/"&gt;http://www.eta.gov.lk/slvisa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and pay a US$ 25,00 tax&amp;nbsp;using a credit card. You'll get your visa by e-mail almost instantly. It should be printed to be showed to the customs in Colombo airport.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sri Lanka, before, during and after the trip, made me thankful for having the opportunity to get to know more about this country and this people. People who deserved more,&amp;nbsp;much more, at least to make justice to the quality of these spectacular human beings. Now that tourism&amp;nbsp;paths are all finding Sri Lanka on the map, the country has what it takes to find it's own&amp;nbsp;path too.&lt;br /&gt;
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By the way,&amp;nbsp;talking about paths, that printed guide that is mandatory to bring with you is gonna look like a treasure when it becomes completely destroyed by the humidity and the&amp;nbsp;hands that barely meet&amp;nbsp;any cuttlery during your time over there. A trip to be remembered with an elephant memory.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adapted from the post &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/12/viajar-pelo-sri-lanka-e-muito-muito.html"&gt;Viajar pelo Sri Lanka é muito fácil. Veja como traçar sua rota&lt;/a&gt;, published on 15/12/2012&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/sri-lanka-why-you-have-to-go.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: why you have to go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/I-did-in-Sri-Lanka.html"&gt;Happened to me in Sri Lanka...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/sri-lanka-india-level-easy.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: India level easy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Threw away a pair of socks&amp;nbsp;everyday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, because the mix "stinky feet + rain" was unbeatable. When the trip finishd, the runners were also eliminated&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Sang Duran Duran a lot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;in my head, specially &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0"&gt;Hungry Like the Wolf&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM"&gt;Save a Prayer&lt;/a&gt;, videos that have been shot there&lt;br /&gt;
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Fell in love&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;first sight and I'm still in love. No doubt I wanna &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;come back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Got irritated with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;mafia of the jeeps&amp;nbsp;at Yala National Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, that makes you pay the price they want for the safaris due to lack of concurrance (theoretically, there are several companies, but all of them know each other)&lt;br /&gt;
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Found the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt; country I thought I'd find in India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Was almost teletransported from a tuktuk to a bus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when I was in&amp;nbsp;this tuk tuk heading to the bus station, but&amp;nbsp;the driver suddenly stopped&amp;nbsp;when he saw a bus and said that was the very last at that day. He moved us and our luggage in the middle of the street in no more than 5 seconds&lt;br /&gt;
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Had the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;best and the worst massages of my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - the best one was close to heal my lordosis, the worst one left me with&amp;nbsp;the smell of a whatever oil for a few days&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Took some pictures turning my back to the Buddha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and found out later that there was a sign: :"Don't turn your on back to the Buddha". &amp;nbsp;Was not my intention but, coincidently or not,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;I lost my camera&amp;nbsp;the next day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Had one the best moments in a place that was close to be left out during the trip planning, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Dambulla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Figured out that the vegetarian cuisine has a lot of good stuff and also a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;new meaning for the word spicy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Stepped on cockroaches, barefoot. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Like the Buddha picture, was not really a plan&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Found a so sublime peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and such welcoming people that, if&amp;nbsp;I didn't know, I would never suspect that the country just left behind 25 years of&amp;nbsp;a bloody civil war, that has come and end only on 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Had tea under 35 degrees celsius&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Due to lack of time, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;I couldn't go to Adam's Peak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (a 2000 meters high mountain sacred for christians, hindus and buddhists for different reasons, from where you can see east and west borders of the country on a clear day) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;and Galle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (colonial city on the cost), &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;which were the places on the pictures that first made me feel like visiting Sri Lanka&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adapted from the article &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/12/no-sri-lanka-eu.html"&gt;No Sri lanka, eu...&lt;/a&gt; , published on 22/12/2012&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/travel-sri-lanka-is-easy-how-to-map-your-route.html"&gt;Travelling around Sri Lanka is very easy. See how to map your route&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The overspiced currys that reach all of your senses at the speed of light; cockroaches as big as rats and rats that look like cats; the humidity, the noonday sun and the storms taking turns all day long and everyday. Sri Lanka is teasing, it's sensorial, an experience to&amp;nbsp;feel. Don't you get stuck to what you see - spend more time on the other side of the camera. Locals are gonna be happy to pose next to you and often gonna ask you for that.&amp;nbsp;Planning each step of&amp;nbsp;the route worrying about&amp;nbsp;rainy season, dry season, monsoon from east, monsoon from west... it's a waste of time. Rainforest weather&amp;nbsp;is always&amp;nbsp;unpredictable anyway.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sri lanka is a heaven of the curious, who wanna create another version for the so rich&amp;nbsp;,but&amp;nbsp;bad explained history of this country full of faith and myth. The best recommendation to do is simple: just go.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"&gt;Colombo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the capital and biggest city, is not the main reason for you to go to Sri Lanka, but it's also far from being not interesting. The street markets at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Pettah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; area, surrounded by british colonial buildings, is the best place to observe how life goes on there. Buddhists, christians, muslims and hindus bring life to this buzzling, messy and chaotic district.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Not far from there, park &lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Viharamahadevi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;, with the Buddha belssing the Town Hall, shows the more dociel and getle side of the city. The&amp;nbsp;fruits sold at the kiosks are sweet, tasty and so fresh, even because if they were not, the heat would make them rotten at the very same day. As fresh as the fruits, is the seafood found in Sri Lanka. Go to the recently refurbished &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Dutch Hospital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - which is, obviously, not a hosital anymore - and try the fabulous Ministry of Crab.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumptuous hotels like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Taj Samudra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Galle Face&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; can be intimidating at first sight, but the restaurants and bars are cheaper than expected and&amp;nbsp;even the spas and massage services&amp;nbsp;are really affordable.&amp;nbsp; They are the most faithful picture of Asia and it's hospitality: luxury has a much more approachable meaning in this continent where the striking façades and gardens hide the most simple and enjoyable places.&lt;/div&gt;
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Poverty can't be ignored - it's devastating. And that's something that only increases how amazing are the ways that&amp;nbsp;locals find to face problems. Go to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Negombo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, coastal city close to the international airport of Colombo and try one of the restaurants on the seaside - you&amp;nbsp;feel like being in a old friend's house. At King's Coconut, the chilled environment begs you to order some fried calamaris, fish fillet and a couple of beers. That will cost like US$ 10,00 per person.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"&gt;Kandy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;cultural center&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;So Sri Lanka. A calm city that, even being the second biggest, has only a hundred thousand inhabitants. Hub of the sinhala resistence against the first europeans that tried to colonize the country (Portugal and Holland, later on), Kandy keeps beeing sacred for keeping the most important buddhist relic in Sri Lanka: a tooth that belonged to Buddha.&lt;/div&gt;
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It's kept inside the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Temple of the Tooth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a&amp;nbsp;modest, magnificient temple at the same time. Almost everything is made of wood and the ornaments are just painted - gems are barely seen. The place is discrete, innoncent like the followers of the belief and the pilgrims, who pray quiet and making sure not put on anyh show. They are happy to be there making their personal meditation.&lt;/div&gt;
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Outside, cracked and disjointed tiles. Inside, priests putting on their traditional clothes are the perfect charactes for the scenario. There's absolutely nothing that breaks down the atmosphere - not a single umbrella seller, even with the skies insisting on sending rain every 5 minutes.&lt;/div&gt;
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A dinner at the Queens Hotel is also mandatory. It's authentic as only an independant hotel could be. Ex-home&amp;nbsp;of an important governor in the times of british colonization, the building is on decay since then. The massive and old lobby, with even older furniture, is completed by the waiters wearing white gloves and the sound of a piano, being played for a lady that hasn't being practicing for more than three months for sure. In the corner of the room, on small table, the &lt;em&gt;chef&lt;/em&gt; throws some shrimps in a portable frying pan, not caring too much about the oil spilling everywhere around. The buffett with all inclusive costs around US$ 15,00.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"&gt;At &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dambulla&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;a &lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;temple built up on the rocks&amp;nbsp;on the very&amp;nbsp;top of a cliff&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, I had my most impressive moment. After passing through almost a ritual to get&amp;nbsp;access the temple, going&amp;nbsp;on a bold and tough way up, you'll find this jewell. The façade is typically asian and inside it's caves, kings used to find refugee in&amp;nbsp;war and&amp;nbsp;turbulent times. Five caves in total - some of them&amp;nbsp;are tiny and barely have&amp;nbsp;space for somebody to walk, but the second one, which is the most special, is just huge and highly decorated.&amp;nbsp;Hiring a guide on the entrance of the temple is always a choice if you have time. They are happy to share their knowlege. Just don't forget to negotiate the price carefully, as they usually over rate it&amp;nbsp;double or more.&lt;/div&gt;
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At leats one sector, either into Kandy or leaving it, is mandatory. See moer about this trip on the post &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/travel-sri-lanka-is-easy-how-to-map-your-route.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: how to map your route&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"&gt;Anuradhapura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Polonnaruwa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Sigiriya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; make the triangle of the best ruins of lost cities in Sri Lanka, each one with it's own special thing. Sigiriya left a lot of clues, but a few evidences - could've been a town, a palace or a monastery, ít's not known for sure by anyone. On the top of a volcanic rock that enchants not only for the rich story, but also for the natural shape and the mistery that intrigues you a bit more every narrow step you put your feet. It takes around two hours to beat them all till the top and, during the whole journey, the rock reveals incrdeible views of the forest surrounding.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pollonaruwa are the most well preserved ruins of Sri Lanka, some of them older than a thousand years - they are the evidence of a prosperous and short time&amp;nbsp;the kingdom hs gone through. Anuradhapura, with it's 2500 years of history, is still sacred for the buddhists and, unlike Pollonaruwa, still works as a religious important site - monks and pilgrims are all over. Dagobas, memorials in a shape of a bowl upside down, have small altars around them, with people from all the country coming over to make their offers - and monkeys stilling them within a few minutes.&lt;/div&gt;
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For safaris, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"&gt;Yala National Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in the southeast of Sri Lanka, is the most famous and best structured national park. The reason is good enough: the largest populations of leopards lives there. Still, you kight not see a single cat during a whole day of safari, as they are very lonely and sneaky.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Tissa lake,&amp;nbsp;nearby Yala Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Adapted from the post &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/12/onde-ir-no-sri-lanka-pra-encontrar-o.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Onde Ir no Sri Lanka para encontrar o que você procura,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; published on 15/12/2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;More about Sri Lanka:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/travel-sri-lanka-is-easy-how-to-map-your-route.html"&gt;Travelling around Sri Lanka is very easy. See how to map your route﻿&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/I-did-in-Sri-Lanka.html"&gt;Happened to me in Sri Lanka...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/sri-lanka-india-level-easy.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: India level easy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/03/sri-lanka-why-you-have-to-go.html"&gt;Sri Lanka: why you hve to go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Alguns&amp;nbsp;paulistas ainda se impressionam quando eu digo que moro em Dubai: "Caramba! Morar em Dubai é top!". Top é morar em São Paulo, meu amigo! Todo paulistano sabe que comida é o ponto forte da cidade, mas pelo hábito de ter que pagar caro por tudo, talvez acabem esquecendo que o preço é tão alto quanto a qualidade.&lt;br /&gt;
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Em Dubai, é o contrário. É difícil achar comida boa e, se os preços não são assim tão baixos, também não assustem brasileiro nenhum. No índice Big Mac, aquele que mede o custo de vida dos países de acordo com o preço do sanduíche, o Brasil&amp;nbsp;é o&amp;nbsp;5º mais caro, enquanto os Emirados Árabes Unidos&amp;nbsp;estão em&amp;nbsp;27º (a diferença seria maior caso todos os países da zona do Euro não fossem agrupados em um mesmo item).&lt;br /&gt;
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Mas fast food nunca foi minha paixão e nem o preço baixo me fez correr pra eles. Depois de dois anos girando pelo deserto mais artificializado do mundo, me sinto no direito de listar alguns lugares onde dá pra comer bem em Dubai sem&amp;nbsp;deixar a carteira machucada.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ps: os endereços são esquisitões mesmo,&amp;nbsp;porque&amp;nbsp;os prédios ainda não tem numeração e, geralmente, são localizados pelo nome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Zaroob&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Comida libanesa. O aconchego da cozinha aberta e os produtos empilhados em estantes&amp;nbsp;conquista, indo na contra-mão de uma cidade onde ostentar é quase um mandamento.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, sem número&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sobremesas fantásticas em ambiente de realeza. Experimente a torta de maçã com sorvete. A poucos metros do libanes Zaroob.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, sem número&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Similar ao Zaroob, com a vantagem de ser 24 horas.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, sem número&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Escondido atrás de uma porta tímida, o pub irlandês&amp;nbsp;de móveis velhos e balcão que mais parece um altar é a segunda casa dos beberrões da cidade. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, atrás do Noor Islamic Bank&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve álcool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Coreano adora um churrasco. Sem medo de errar, peça o churrasco completo. As peças de carne vêm temperadas, mas são preparadas pelos próprios clientes, na chapa que fica no centro da mesa. A parte exótica são os acompanhamentos em pequenas porções, trazidos sem parar durante todo o jantar.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Al Ghurarir Mall, Deira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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No piso 43 de um hotel, uma vista 360 graus de toda a cidade. Comida para dividir, como espetinhos e bolinhos fritos, são a especialidade.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Four Points Hotel, Sheikhb Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve álcool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Mais um pub irlandês para acompanhar os esportes. Com casa lotada, a atmosfera é incrível, mas vá no finzinho de tarde para experimentar uma das melhores comidas de boteco da cidade.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Four Points Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve álcool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irish Village&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Não tão autêntico quanto o Fibbers, mas maior e mais espetacular. Frequentemente recebe shows e eventos.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dubai Aviation Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Um pouco d tudo. No ambiente interno, um lounge térreo e uma balada no primeiro andar. O melhor fica mesmo do lado de fora, em ambiente aberto e mais casual.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Meridién Airport Hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asiana Hotel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Três restaurantes temáticos lindos estão dentro deste hotel: um corenao, um chinês e um japonês. Toda quinta feira, por um preço fixo, pode-se comer a vontade em todos. Se quiser ter espaço para os três, não peça mais de um prato em cada: eles são generosos.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Asiana Hotel, Deira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Vapiano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Restaurante italiano que não é pegadinha. Fãs de pasta tem que ir direto pra lá. Várias unidades, mas a do Dubai Mall tem uma área externa com vista para o show das fontes em frente ao Burj Khalifa, o maior prédio do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PF&amp;nbsp;Chang's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
O chinês mais famoso da cidade. Também em várias unidades, mas tendo a sua principal e mais dubaística no Dubai Mall.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nanking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
O chinês mais escondido da cidade. Frequentemente vazio, faz comida que não perde&amp;nbsp;em nada para o PF Chang.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Millenium Tower, Business Bay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Noodle House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
O Pf Chang's é o mais conhecido, o nanking é o mais escondido e o Noodle House é meu favorito. Comida de fazer hmmm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dubai Mall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Rosso Vivo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pizza boa e ponto, nada mais que isso. Achar pizza boa em Dubai é dureza e a maioria das pizzarias, principalmente pra paulista mal acostumado, mal chega a ser razoável.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Millenium Tower, Business Bay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wagamama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Comida japonesa é frequentemente associada a peixe cru. O wagamama serve outras delícias da culinária japonesa como bolinhos fritos de carne de pato e macarrão com frutos do mar.&lt;br /&gt;
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve álcool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Vapiano é o lugar para amantes de massas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Ainda pagável&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Icho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rodízio japonês quase como o que estamos acostumados. O preço é fixo, mas os pratos frios são servidos em buffet e os quentes tem que ser pedidos. Do 49º de um hotel, a vista da Sheikh Zayed Road é fantástica.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Radisson Royal Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dunes Cafe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Um buffet com tudo que se possa imaginar: sushi, carne, salada, frutos do mar, queijos, sobremesa, bebidas e etc. Ambiente charmosos e serviço excelente.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Shangri-la Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheesecake Factory&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Recentemente trazida dos Estados Unidos, a rede altamente engordativa de slow food faz sucesso em Dubai. Tudo, absolutamente tudo, é bom. &lt;br /&gt;
A unidade do Dubai Mall é bacana, mas a do Mall of the Emirates é melhor e com muito menos filas.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Kisaku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
O Wagamama é pras massas. O Kisaku é pra comunidade. Já foi considerado o melhor restaurante japonês na Ásia, fora do Japão.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Al Khaleej Palace Hotel, Bur Dubai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Veja também:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/03/europeizacao-do-deserto.html"&gt;Hotéis em Dubai: a europeização do deserto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/02/dubai-pegando-o-jeito.html"&gt;Dubai: pegando o jeito&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/01/despertador-de-dubai.html"&gt;Despertador de Dubai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/02/algo-aprender-com-o-dubai-mall.html"&gt;Dubai Mall: algo a apreender com um shopping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2011/01/dubaienses-dubaianos-e-dubraisileiros.html"&gt;Dubaienses, dubaianos e dubrasileiros&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/search/label/Dubai"&gt;Todos os posts sobre Dubai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Fried noodles in Wagamama. pcture source: official website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Living in Dubai is not easy for a food lover like me. In my hometown, Sao Paulo, I&amp;nbsp;used to have whatever kind of food I felt like and at any time I wanted. &lt;br /&gt;
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But I found out that even in this bubble of happiness, where branding matters more than quality, it's possible to have good food. These two years made me&amp;nbsp;feel I have the right to list twenty places where foodies are not gonna get disappointed in the desert.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ps: the addresses are quite weird because, in Dubai, the buildings don't get numbers, they have names insted. But finding any of these places is easy and most of the taxi drivers are gonna know how to get there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Cheap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Cool and cozy interior of Zaroob. picture source: ofical website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Zaroob&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Lebanese food. The open kitchen and all the shelves filled up with cooking products make it quite cozy and are definitely&amp;nbsp;gonna conquer you. Specially when their&amp;nbsp;bet is&amp;nbsp;going in the opposite way in a city where showing off is like a rule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, no number&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shakespeare Co&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Fantastic desserts in a opulent ambiance. Try the apple tart with ice cream to become a fan. A few meters away from Zaroob.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, no number&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zaatar w Zeit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Similar to Zaroob, with the extra that they are 24 hours.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shangri-la Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Fibber Magee's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Hidden behind a shy door, this irish pub stuffed with old furniture and a bar that looks more like an altar, is the second home of the hardcore drunken.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sheikh Zayed Road, behind Noor islamic Bank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Shogun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Koreans love barbecue. There's no mistake on trying: go straight&amp;nbsp;for the complete barbecue set. Large pieces of meat come ready to be cooked for you in a oven right on the middle of your table. The exotic part is the endless number of side dishes that keep coming in small portions during the whole dinner.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Al Ghurarir Mall, Deira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Level 43&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In the 43th floor of a hotel, a 360 degrees view of the whole city. Food to share, like satays and fried samosas, go well with the&amp;nbsp;wide variety&amp;nbsp;of drinks available.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Four Points Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Another irish pub to follow the sports. With a full house, the atmosphere is incredible. But go for the happy hour and get the chef working basically only for you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Four Points Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Shakespeare Co and it's decoration of a dollhouse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;View from the lounge of Level 43&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Not that cheap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irish Village&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Not so authentic as Fibbers, but bigger and more spectacular. Frequently receives&amp;nbsp;concerts and events.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dubai Aviation Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warehouse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A bit of everything. Indoors, they have a fancy lounge on the ground floor and a club on the first. But the best stays outdoors, in a more casual environment to have some nice sandwiches and a pint.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meridién Airport Hotel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asiana Hotel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Three beautiful theme resturants are inside this hotel: a korean, a chinese and a japonese. Every thursday, for a fixed price, you can eat all you can in all of them. Dishes are generous, so order carefully if you're planning to have space to try something everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Asiana Hotel, Deira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Vapiano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Italian restaurant that is not a scam. Pasta fans have to head straight there. Theres several branches, but the one in Dubai Mall has a terrace with a view to the fountain and the water show in front of Burj Khalifa&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PF Chang's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Most famous chinese restaurant in Dubai. Also has more than one unit, but the main one and most "&lt;em&gt;Dubai-style&lt;/em&gt;" is in Dubai Mall&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nanking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The most hidden chinese restaurant in the city. Often empty, makes food that doesn't owe a thing to PF Chang's.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Millenium Tower, Business Bay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Noodle House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
PF Chang's is the most known chinese, Nanking is the most hidden and Noodle House is my favorite. Food to say hmmmm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dubai Mall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Rosso Vivo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Finding good pizza in Dubai is tough and if you used to&amp;nbsp;good ones,&amp;nbsp;the 8 sliced rounds you're gonna find&amp;nbsp;are barely eatable. Rosso Vivo is the&amp;nbsp;most OK pizza in&amp;nbsp;town.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Millenium Tower, Business Bay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wagamama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Japanese food is often related to raw fish. Wagamama serves several other simple, delicious and tasty dishes of the japanese cuisine, like duck meat and noodles with seafood.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Icho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The japanese brunch is amazing. Not because it's huge, not because you have endless choices - just because whatever you get is fresh and superb. From the 49th floor of a hotel, the view of Sheikh Zayed Road, the main street of Dubai, is marvellous.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Radisson Royal Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dunes Cafe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A buffet with everything you can imagine: meat, salads, soups,&amp;nbsp;seafood, cheese, desserts, drinks and more. Charming ambiance and excellent service.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Shangri-la Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serve alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Recently brought from the US, the high-caloric chain of slow food is the fancy place&amp;nbsp;to dinner&amp;nbsp;these days. Regardless your taste, your gonna enjoy it. It's worth to go to the one in the Mall of The Emirates instead of Dubai Mall - rarely you're gonna find a queue waiting&amp;nbsp;to be seated.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Kisaku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Wagamama&amp;nbsp;is food&amp;nbsp;fot the masses.&amp;nbsp; Kisaku is for the community. It's been once&amp;nbsp;considered&amp;nbsp; the best japonese restaurant in Asia, out of Japan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Al Khaleej Palace Hotel, Bur Dubai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serves alcohol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Adapted from the article &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2013/02/lugares-para-comer-e-beber-dubai-inclusive-alcool.html"&gt;Dubai: 20 lugares pra comer e beber&lt;/a&gt;, published on 05/02/2013&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A&amp;nbsp;primeira vez que eu&amp;nbsp;fiquei&amp;nbsp;em um&amp;nbsp;hotel melhorzinho,&amp;nbsp;tive até&amp;nbsp;medo de encostar nas coisas. Dispositivo eletrônico que te cobra assim que você desencosta o item da geladeira, mini-bar cheio de coisa bacana dando sopa e um robe macio naquela manhã chuvosa&amp;nbsp;que dava preguiça até de trocar de roupa. &lt;br /&gt;
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Confunde mesmo. A&amp;nbsp;reação é muito mais de intimidação que de entusiasmo e a gente&amp;nbsp;acaba não tirando o máximo que poderia da nossa estada. &lt;br /&gt;
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Afinal, quando os fundos juntados forem suficientes pra faturar aquele 4 estrelas em promoção, o que está incluso ou não no preço pago pela diária no hotel:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Incluso na diária&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Robe e toalhas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Incluído durante a sua estada. Pode usar a vontade, mas tem que deixar lá. Os &lt;em&gt;slippers&lt;/em&gt;, no entanto, aqueles chinelinhos de pano, podem ser levados pra casa e, geralmente, os hotéis fornecem um par&amp;nbsp;por dia.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Shampoo, sabonete, condicionador e&amp;nbsp;hidratante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pode pegar tudo e, inclusive, levar pra casa. Se precisar de mais ou sentir falta da escova de dente, peça na recepção porque já está incluído no preço.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Água&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Desde que esteja fora do mini-bar, pode pegar. Na maioria das vezes, há alguma etiqueta ou identificação no próprio rótulo dizendo se é complementar.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Televisão&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pode usar a vontade e sem medo. Os canais que devem ser pagos a parte devem estar claramente identificados e sem armadilha alguma.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ferro de&amp;nbsp;passar, secador de cabelo, máquina de fazer café&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Todos equipamentos que podem ser usados durante toda estada, mas não podem ser removidos do quarto.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Chá e café (sachês)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Todos inclusos. Às vezes até&amp;nbsp;colocam um biscoito ou qualquer coisinha no pires pra fazer um agrado a mais.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kit pra&amp;nbsp;lustrar sapato, calçador e&amp;nbsp;kit de costura&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Já estão todos embalados e, caso não precisem&amp;nbsp;ser utiliazdos&amp;nbsp;no hotel, podem ser levados na mala. Caso contrário, se precisar mais que o oferecido, esses itens também podem ser requiridos sem preço adicional.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ogyWOTpYhfg/UQ50bbC8x0I/AAAAAAAADUA/pifaPZzpyyY/s1600/hotel_suica_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ogyWOTpYhfg/UQ50bbC8x0I/AAAAAAAADUA/pifaPZzpyyY/s400/hotel_suica_1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Mini-Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tudo que está&amp;nbsp;dentro mini-bar tem um preço, a não ser que você esteja na suíte presidencial e aí, então, nem vai star lendo isso aqui. A tabela de preços deve constar ao lado.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ligações telefônicas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A não ser que a ligação seja para outro quarto ou para algum ramal de serviço do próprio hotel (serviço de quarto, lavanderia, etc), ela será cobrada a parte.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canecas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
É só pra&amp;nbsp; não fazer você tomar seu café direto da jarra (a água está fervendo e você vai se machucar feio). Não pode levar de recordação.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #274e13; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lavanderia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Os serviços de lavanderia são pagos e a tabela de preços costuma estar dentro do armário. As sacolas fornecidas&amp;nbsp;pra colocar a roupa suja, no entanto, são de graça. Ideais para colocar o sapato antes de por dentro da mala.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Veja também:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/02/relatos-dos-piores-hoteis-do-mundo.html"&gt;Relatos dos piores hotéis do mundo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2012/11/quando-fazer-seguro-de-viagem.html"&gt;Quando fazer seguro de viagem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/12/meu-cartao-nao-funcionou-no-exterior-e.html"&gt;Como usar cartões de débito e crédito no exterior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;a href="http://www.esvaziandoamochila.com/2010/11/como-evitar-sacanagens-contra-turistas.html"&gt;Como evitar sacanagens contra turistas, principalmente na primeira viagem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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