About Visas:

To enter Brazil, participants from the following countries should ask for a Tourist Visa to their nearest Brazilian Consulate: Australia, Canada, China, Korea, Cuba, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, United States (for a complete list, see www.dpf.gov.br).

How to get to Ouro Preto:

Ouro Preto lies about 100km from Belo Horizonte, the capital of the State of Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte has two airports, called Confins and Pampulha. Most of the flights to Belo Horizonte land in Confins.

The Portuguese company TAP has direct flights to Confins from Portugal, but most incoming flights (Air France, American Airlines, Lufthansa, etc.) from abroad will stop first in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, all of which have domestic flights to Belo Horizonte. The Brazilian company GOL offers many domestic flights to and from Confins.

To get to Belo Horizonte from Rio or São Paulo, there will also be buses going directly to the School, organized by the people of Rio/SP going to EBP. To subscribe and obtain information about these buses, please write to the following addresses: If you want to subscribe to the list for the bus leaving from/to Rio de Janeiro (click HERE for the timetable), send an email to dac@impa.br, giving your name and passport number. For the bus São Paulo-Ouro Preto: ribeiro@ime.usp.br - Cristiane

You can of course also take regular buses from the bus terminals of any of these cities: Rio de Janeiro - Ouro Preto: 428 Km São Paulo - Ouro Preto: 581 Km

For further information: ebp12@mat.ufmg.br