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Brazil - The beginning

Posted by C_OBOYLE_C | 7th March 2008

Brazil, the home of the largest and most famous street Carnival in the world was next on the agenda, and luckily I planned it conveniently to coincide with Carnival.

I would be lying if I was to say I was 100% excited about arriving in Rio. The most common topic of conversation about Rio with fellow backpackers was regarding how dangerous it was. Supposedly 1 in 4 tourists in Rio get mugged. I heard 2 seperate stories about guys getting mugged 3 times in one day. So as you can imagine I was a tad nervous about my arrival. The fundamental advise for Rio was to bring nothing outside the door that you don´t want to loose. So consequently that meant leaving my camera behind for the most of it.

This was what I had heard but the reality for me was "Luck of the Irish" as the yanky doodles say, combined with a bit of cop on that is. The language of Brazil is Portuguese so unfortunately alot of the spanish I picked up in argentina was useless. To me it sounded completely alien to Spanis

Continued | Cormac´s Travels

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