- Brazil: Part IWe landed at the Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro at 5:45 a.m. We’d been awake since the previous morning and knew we had to stay awake until that night to avoid jet lag brought about by Posted by vicki_h in Come With Me... | Dec 29, 2011
- Brazil: An IntroductionRewind to a cold day in March 2011. Matt and I are piled up in the bedroom on a rainy Saturday. Matt is reading a book and I am doing what I always do when stuck indoors...surfing the web looking Posted by vicki_h in Come With Me... | Dec 29, 2011
- sunday on the beachI walked to my new place to sleep. I was to set up my hammock for the first time and sleep in it.
I settled down among others who were still sleeping, asked the hippie guys at Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 29, 2011
- alter do chaoAfter 9 days, I finally found paradise. As soon as I arrived in alter do chao, I sat down in a coffee shop to admire the view.
I lit a cigarette and stepped to the road to smo Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 29, 2011
- santarem
There isn’t much to say about santarem. It looks ugly and decaying, just like my hotel room.
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- Rio de Janeiro ~ Round 2After a lousy start on the weather front to my last five days in Rio, the sun finally came out! Luckily it chose to do so on the day we decided to head up to see Christ the Redeemer - Posted by godfreyz in From The Andes to The Rockies | Dec 26, 2011
- The Island of the Beautiful PeopleI was in two minds whether to visit Ilha de Santa Caterina or not seeing as I had already reached my departure point of Rio and this meant heading two hours south on a plane to Florianopolis, but so glad Posted by godfreyz in From The Andes to The Rockies | Dec 26, 2011
- passenger's logAt six o’clock this morning, I discovered another disadvantage of sleeping in the crew cabin. The rest of the crew weren’t aware of our little arrangement with the shuffler, so someone was knocking at my door to wake me up Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 25, 2011
- passenger's logNight 1
I got on the boat two hours ago and realized that I should have asked for a room number! I knocked on the doors of rooms to find either they were already taken or were locked. Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 25, 2011
- hostel in belemI am only posting this photo for future reference. An "atmospheric" one is coming up soon!
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- Belem
As the plane descends on belem to land, first you see the forest and the rivers, things you are used to seeing on documentaries about the amazon. Then you see belem! My god, what a come- Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 24, 2011
- Iguazu fallsWe left paraty early the next day with a 5 hour bumpy drive to Sao paulo to catch our flight to iguazu. The goal was to experience the falls from both sides- brazil for the breadth and panoramic views and Posted by Rits blog in Around the world in.... | Dec 21, 2011
- my bed at gol backpackers
You don't know how many times I hit my head at the beams on top and it was impossible to sit on the bed. I felt big and tall. Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 20, 2011
- Paraty day 2We lucked out with amazing weather for our boat ride along the coast. The sun was shinning and deceivingly strong (we all landed up with sun burns by the end of the day). The boat was beautiful and unlike Posted by Rits blog in Around the world in.... | Dec 20, 2011
- ParatyToday we embarked on a 4 hour drive along the coastline of brazil enroute to paraty- an old colonial village by the water. It was a picturesque drive with lush green vegetation and small coastal towns with Spanish style architecture. Posted by Rits blog in Around the world in.... | Dec 18, 2011
- Santa Claus at 30 degrees CI gathered some more information about paulistanos, as inhabitants of sao paulo call themselves. People from portugal, italy, spain, germany, greece(!), france, african countries, japan, syria, lebenon, china, korea have emigrated to sao paulo to “bleac Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 18, 2011
- RioAfter seeing the main sites of rio but we wanted to look beyond the key areas of the city and the main beaches. We spent time on both copacabana and ipanema beach with the latter being more impressive. We then Posted by Rits blog in Around the world in.... | Dec 18, 2011
- a bigggg city, sao pauloI bought my ticket to brasil 3 months ago. for 3 months, I carried the printed version of my e-ticket in my wallet. never once have I had any doubts about where I was flying to in Posted by aylinayar in brazil 101 | Dec 17, 2011
- sf-lima-sao paolo-rio finally!After a lengthy journey we arrived in rio ahead of schedule. We came expecting 80 degree weather and sun but were greeted by grey skys and crazy monsoon rains. Nevertheless nothing stops up from surveying a new city. From cachaca Posted by Rits blog in Around the world in.... | Dec 16, 2011
- Rio de Janeiro ~ Round 1In true Brazilian fashion the 2.5 hour "easy transfer" from Ilha Grande to Rio ended up taking more like 6.5! Luckily I had a brilliant group on the minibus there and time flew by. I expected a lot from Rio Posted by godfreyz in From The Andes to The Rockies | Dec 14, 2011
- Iguazu Falls
We arrived at 12:30 at the bus terminal of Puerto Iguazu and walked down to our hostel where we happily found out that we could still manage to get a bus for the Brazilian side of the Ig Posted by molokaic in Once around the world | Nov 25, 2011
- Costa VerdeThe Brazilians could learn a lot from the Argentinians when it comes to bus travel. 16 hours with no loo or food on board....... and no sleep courtesy of an air con system capable of recreating the harshest of Siberian Posted by godfreyz in From The Andes to The Rockies | Dec 8, 2011
- The Falls at Iguazu / IguacuIt´s amazing how fast 19 hour bus journeys go these days; three-course hot meals with unlimited wine and seats that recline to flat beds probably help! The Argentine bus companies definitely put National Express to shame.....but despite my new found Posted by godfreyz in From The Andes to The Rockies | Dec 8, 2011
- Angry waterfallsSao Paolo
After drying ourselves off from our soaking in Paraty, it was onwards to Sao Paolo (a long but scenic bus ride away). Despite being less well known than Rio, it's about 3 times the size (one of the Posted by jamesandanita in Round the world trip | Dec 7, 2011
- Rio and the Brazilian coastRio
We arrived in Rio (after a couple of hours delay to our flight - thumbs down to Gol!) and met up with Bernadette and Frank (Anita's parents) at the airport. The taxi into town was sligthly "interesting" in that Posted by jamesandanita in Round the world trip | Dec 2, 2011