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SAO LUIS DO MARANHAO AND LENÇOIS MARINHENSES,  BRAZIL
TRAVEL, TOURS, HOTELS AND FLIGHTS

Sao Luis do Maranhao is the capital of Maranhao state, in the Northeast of Brazil.

Sao Luis is located in a transition area (between the Ceara and the Amazon, the sertão and other northern regions of Brazil) that comprises a huge variety of ecosystems.

Maranhao is a mix of beaches, forests, rivers and lakes that differentiate it from other Brazilian destinations.

Travel destination type
Sao Luis do Maranhao is an eco-tourist destination, combining river and sea beaches with a very and almost integraly preserved area of forests, imaculated white sands and sea. Maranhao is significantly different from all other brazilian destinations.

Eco-tourism attractions
Sao Luis (the city), Delta das Américas, the Lençóis Maranhenses and the Chapadas das Mesas and Floresta dos Guarás. See Travel Trips and Tours in Maranhao

Attractions nearby
Amazon and Ceará beaches


HOTELS
IN SAO LUIS MARANHAO

Sao Luis do Maranhao has a reasonable number of hotels, but most of them are small ones, and the global offer is really scarce, specially online. Try the Search button above:

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FLIGHTS
TO SAO LUIS MARANHAO?

Airport
Sao Luis Airport: Cunha Machado Airport.
There are regular flights from Belem, Brasilia, Fortaleza, Manaus, Curitiba, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador or São Paulo, though some of these flights might not be direct.

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TOURS, TRIPS
TO SAO LUIS DO MARANHAO AND NEARBY DESTINATIONS?

Maranhao beaches and atttractions are significantly different from those provided by the brazilian Ceara (Fortaleza) beaches or by the brazilian Amazon destinations (though part of Maranhao comprises the Amazonian rainforest) and his importance is growing as his singularity are recognized.

The regions comprises several highligts:

Sao Luis (the city) - a colourful city, with interesting monuments as the Sé Cathedral, the Remedios Square, the Santo António Chapel, the Maranhao Art and History Museum or excelent beaches as Ponta d'Areia, Santo Antonio Fort and Calhau. Sao Luis is, obviously, the inescapable hub to visit the major travel perls of the regoin: the Delta and the Ilha do Caju, the Lençois (the Sheets), the Chapada and the Floresta dos Guaras.

Lençóis (Sheets) Maranhenses
-  the top attraction of the region: an huge desert of dunes of imaculate white sands (many of them tens of meters high) and between them hundreds of lagoons of crystalline water, and rivers with deserted and wild beaches. An unique landscape that lasts some months, after the rainfalls: May and subsequent months.

Delta das Américas
- an ecological paradise of rivers and its creeks and sandy beds and lots of wildlife, mingled with isolated river beaches.

Ilha do Caju - set of totally preserved dunes, forests, wildlife in Delta das Americas

Chapada das Mesas - another very preserved site, with astonishing waterfalls as Pedra Caída

Floresta dos Guarás (Amazonian Maranhao)
Floresta dos Guaras is a natural sanctuary - comprising several islands, bays, rivers, wetlands and beaches (
Praias de Caçacueira, São Lucas e Mangunça).


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