Experience the World’s Biggest and Most Extraordinary Carnival Celebrations in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia in Luxury

Salvador, Brazil, September 02, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Spending Carnival in Brazil is a unique experience that attracts hundreds of thousands of people from everywhere in the world every year in February. The famous Carnival hot-spot is Rio de Janeiro. Rio’s colorful Carnival Parade in the Sambadromo stadium, built exclusively for this purpose, is a spectacular event featuring fascinating presentations of reputable Samba Schools competing for the title of the year’s Samba Queen. This show becomes all the more thrilling by the enormous exotic, glittering costumes designed especially for this event, the rhythm of the abounding samba music and the hilarious atmosphere amongst dancing Brazilians and foreigners.

The next Carnival celebration will be on February 21st to 24th 2009. For four days, the Sambadromo Parade will be the center of life in Rio de Janeiro, complemented by numerous themed parties and balls, the most renowned one being the Ball in the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel.

With luxury Online Travel Company Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group, travelers can join this exceptional party staying at the most exquisite and hotels of the City. Travelers can choose between accommodation at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, ideal for participating in this hotel’s famous carnival ball, and luxurious rooms with ocean view over Rio’s picturesque beaches of Copacabana or in Ipanema at a number of 5 and 4 star hotels including the Fasano Rio inaugurated in 2007 with a splendid interior by the world-famous designer Philippe Starck, the Caesar Park Ipanema, or the Praia Ipanema Hotel, depending on the client’s preferences.

While the city of Rio de Janeiro indisputably hosts the most visually impressive Carnival event with its explosion of colors and costumes, Carnival in Salvador da Bahia holds the title of being the world’s biggest street party. Several Parades pass through the streets of the city on four consecutive days, the biggest one along the spacious avenue along the famous beaches of Barra and Ondina. When Rio impresses with sights, Salvador fascinates its visitors with the sounds of the irresistible rhythms of its music, in styles as diverse as samba, percussion and the typical local Bahian Axé music. World-famous Brazilian and international singers and bands are the stars of the Parade.

Travelers wanting to indulge in Brazilian lifestyle with its enthusiasm for rhythm, sound and music find their ideal Carnival travel package to Salvador created by Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group. Accommodation at first class hotels like the Design Hotel Zank in the Rio Vermelho neighborhood or the traditional Convento do Carmo in the historic center Pelourinho can be combined with tickets to the best seats at the ‘Camarotes’ for watching the Parade. Guests staying at the Othon Palace Salvador right by the beaches of Ondina can see and hear the Parade pass directly in front of the hotel.

The Discover Travel Group website www.DiscoverBrazil.com offers relevant information and request forms for personalized travel packages to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia and other destinations in Brazil. Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group’s further websites www.Discover.Travel, www.DiscoverSouthAmerica.Travel and www.DiscoverCentralAmerica.Travel offer an even more varied choice of destinations for traveling in luxury in South America and Central America.

Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group:
· Won the 2008 Ulysses Award for Innovation in Tourism Enterprises from the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization),
· Are nominated as Central America’s Leading Travel Agency and South America’s Leading Travel Management Company for the World Travel Awards 2008
· Managing Partner Robert Phillips was elected ASTA Chapter President for Brazil.
· Has been selected by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism as an Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
· Is authenticated by the Tralliance Corporation and the .Travel Registry.

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