Teresina

• 🌍 Teresina Airport/Senador Petrônio Portella (THE  ^IATA), Praça Santos Dumont, s/n - Bairro Aeroporto (in the northwestern region of the city off of Avenida Centenário), ☏ +55 86 3133-6270. Served by Gol, LATAM, Azul airlines, and two very small regional carriers called Sete and Piquiatuba. Similar to other smaller destinations in northern and northeastern Brazil, fares in and out of Teresina are much more expensive than central and southern Brazil. Plan ahead when booking. Last minute fares through Teresina are extremely expensive. 

• 🌍 Rodoviária de Teresina (Rodoviária Governador Lucídio Portella), Rodoviária Governador Lucídio Portella, s/n - Bairro Redenção (The rodoviária (bus station) is located to the east of the traffic circle where Avenida Presidente Getúlio Vargas crosses Rua Palmares/Avenida Principal. Another point of reference, the rodoviária is located about 800 m southeast of the Alberto Silva Stadium. The bus station is about 8 km southeast of the centre — taxi R$15.), ☏ +55 86 3218 1514. 
  • From Piripiri by Guanabara, 5 daily, 3 hours, R$26.
  • From Parnaíba and Luis Correa by Guanabara, 5 daily, 6 hours, R$45.

It is best not to drive at night through the remote highways of the Brazilian North and Northeast. Lack of shoulders and tall farm crops growing right up to the roadside make visibility difficult on curved stretches. You may hit a farm animal, such as a burro, and damage your car and injure yourself and passengers. Driving at night can also be dangerous since thieves and gangs can more easily create roadblocks at night to rob drivers.

• 593 km (368 mi) from Fortaleza (via BR-222 and BR-343 through Piripiri, PI).
• 1,127 km (700 mi) from Recife (via BR-232 and BR-316 through Salgueiro, PE).
• 1,695 km (1,053 mi) from Brasília (via BR-020, BR-242, BR-135, BR-343, and BR-316).

Municipal bus service is provided by SETUT and costs R$2.10 (2013). Buses carry about 225,000 passengers a day in the city and you can get most anywhere you need to by bus. Don't take valuables with you if traveling by bus.

Taxis are affordable in Teresina and are a good alternative to renting a car if you don't plan on traveling too far outside of the city.

Teresina has a light rail system with 9 stations that was built on tracks laid in 1922 (it is referred to as a metro, but is completely an above-ground system). The rolling stock is new, but the stations are dilapidated and, with the exception of two stations (Engenheiro/Bandeira and Frei Serafim), are nowhere near where you would travel in Teresina as a visitor or even as a member of the upper poor class or higher. Most of the stations on the east side of the Poti River are on narrow, dead end streets in poor neighborhoods with no commerce nearby and no bus terminals. Station names can be a point of confusion for both locals and visitors. The west side terminus is referred to as "Bandeira" station, yet the station's official name is "Engenheiro Alberto Tavares Silva." "Novo Horizonte" is sometimes referred to as "Parque Ideal." Other stations on the east side also vary in name and have no signage to indicate which station you are at (e.g., Mercado, Itararé, Novo Horizonte).

Approximately 8,000 people ride the metro per day (225,000 ride buses per day). Although it was started in 1991 around the same time as larger and more successful metro systems in central and southern Brazil, the Metro appears to be more of a vanity project for local politicians than a useful transportation alternative to buses.

• February - Carnaval.
• June-November. River Beaches. The rivers levels fall between June and November exposing large sand banks known as the “crowns of the rivers”. These are turned into popular river “beaches” complete with life-guards and vendors selling fried fish straight out of the rivers.
• June 29 - Procissão de São Pedro. A penitential procession of boats on the river Parnaíba.
• July - Teresina hosts the three-day Micarana festival, attracting top artists and visitors from all over Brazil - and no foreigners.
• November - Salão Internacional de Humor. The city is given over to cartoons and charicatures, attracting participants from Brazil and abroad.

A few cheapies in front of the bus station, although this location is inconvenient if you don´t have your own car. The area between the centre and the hospital zone, south and east of Avendida Frei Serafim, is dotted with cheap pensões, although many of these seem more like hospital waiting rooms.

• 🌍 Hotel Pio, Av. Centenário, 1785, Aeroporto (Right in front of the airport - you can walk there from the terminal although you should be careful doing so at night), ☏ +55 86 3214-4234, fax: +55 86 3214-4234. 

• Hotel Itapoã, Rua Olavo Bilac 2222, Centro (Four blocks from Banco do Brasil at Frei Serafim), ☏ +55 86 3222-7017. Single R$50, Double 80, Triple 110, Quadr 130. 
• 🌍 Ibis, Rua Primeiro de Maio 450, Centro, ☏ +55 86 2106-2000. Single/double R$75, breakfast R$8. 
• Hotel São José, Rua João Cabral, 340, ☏ +55 86 3226-1166. Sul, CEP: 64000-030. 
• Rio Poty Hotel, Av. Mal. Castelo Branco, 555, ☏ +55 86 3223-1500. Bairro Ilhotas, CEP: 64001-810. 
• Royal Palace Hotel, Rua 13 De Maio, 233, ☏ +55 86 64000-150, fax: +55 86 3221 7707. Centro, CEP. 

• Lord Hotel, Av. Getúlio Vargas, 2021 (Within walking distance of the bus station), ☏ +55 86 2106-5500. Bairro Redenção,