Local travel in Brazil is always easy. Public transport outside of the Amazon is generally by bus or plane, though there are a few passenger trains, too. However you travel, services will be crowded, plentiful and, apart from planes, cheap.
Car rental is also possible, but driving in Brazil is not for the faint-hearted. Some international car rental companies have local agencies and there are quite a few reliable Brazilian ones as well. Hitchhiking, over any distance, is not recommended
Buses
The
bus system
in Brazil is excellent, as good as anywhere in the Americas, and makes travelling around the country easy, comfortable and economical, despite the distances involved. Intercity buses leave from a station called a
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Planes
It's hardly surprising that a country the size of Brazil relies on
air travel
a good deal; in some parts of Amazonia air links are more important than either the roads or rivers. Any town has at least an airstrip, and all cities have airports,...
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Trains, ferries and boats
You probably won't be taking many
trains
in Brazil. Although there's an extensive rail network, much of it is for cargo only, and even where there are passenger trains they're almost invariably slower and less convenient than the buses....
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City transport
Shoals of
local buses
clog city streets: you enter at the back - where route details are posted - and move through a turnstile as you pay your fare.
Fares
are all flat-rate, and rarely more than 50¢. Buses often get unbelievably...
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Driving and car rental
Driving
standards in Brazil hover between the abysmal and the appalling. Brazil has one of the highest death tolls from driving-related accidents in the world, and on any journey you can see why, with thundering trucks and drivers treating the road...
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