Originally Posted by
VidaNaPraia
Why not simply buy a phone card in each city to use an "orelhao" (phone 'booth' on the street), which are plentiful in most Brazilian cities?
If you get a chip in Rio, for example, local calls in Belem would be long distance.
That wouldn't work for me as I need to send text messages to guides and other people in Brazil-for example to alert them that the bus is 5km from town so please come and get us. Or to be able to call airport hotels once the plane lands and they allow calls so the transport will be there by the time we get off the plane.