Nova Friburgo

Introduction

Nova Friburgo is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro and has about 180,000 inhabitants. It is located about 135 kilometres from Rio and was one of the affected cities of the January 2011 rains and mudslides, causing over 200 deaths here.

Getting There

By Plane

The airports near Rio have a wide range of domestic as well as international flights. From Rio it is about 2 hours by bus.

Sleep

Keep Connected

Phone

See also International Telephone Calls

Post

Correios is the national postal service of Brazil. It is a government run postal service and overseen by the Brazilian Ministry of Communications. Post offices are generally open from Monday to Friday from 09:00am to 5:00pm, although post offices located in shopping malls have their own opening hours, usually from 10:00am to 10:00pm. There are no set opening hours at weekends and as post office owners can choose when to open and close. More and more post offices are open until 1:00pm on Saturdays though. You can check things at the nearest post office. Sending postcards, letters and parcels is a rather straightforward process and services are reliable, though not overly fast when sending post internationally, mostly taking about a week to the USA and Europe, and there is a track-and-trace service for this as well. Domestically, there are both next day as well as more expensive same day delivery options. Stamps are available at post offices, as well as some kiosks or other places where they sell postcards.