Brasilia
Travel Blogs from Brasilia, Brazil
More of Brazil
Well, Brazil continues to be one of my favourite countries in South America, as Ive visited so many beautiful places in the last couple of weeks. I did a 3 day trek in the jungle in Lençois to see Brazils highest waterfall. At 380m high it was pretty ...
Brasilia - Day 66
... , they should of considered more public transport options. Buses are the only option but that's the same across most of Brazil. Brasilia's design was based on an Aeroplane with the fuselage being the heart of the city where the parliament, government ...
Off to Brazilia!!!!
Well after an epic experience as independent travellers per se we ar now off once more on a trip of a different challenge. This time going with a group of students from my school doing our third World Challenge trip. Our first destination was "Sau ...
The best and worst of South America
... when it's spoken in Chile and Argentina and the Spanish that is actually unintelligible Portuguese when you arrive in Brazil... ...wandering down winding streets, peering into bizarre shops and riding in battered up cars; being squashed into buses on ...
Summary of South America
Summary of South America Unintentionally we've saved the best until last. Visually beyond comparison, South America has it all. Beautiful on the eye, with history and wildlife, the fact we learned the language (excluding portuguese) gave it the edge ...
Cement
... right (too hard to explain but it works!) you can traverse the city easily which we did many times with Vince and Ana. Brasilia is surrounded by hills and valleys, goes from green to brown from wet to dry season, and has a lifestyle ...
C'est quoi une ville sud-americaine ?
... hommes des démiurges, demi-dieux créateurs ; Brasilia, ou 3 ans pour un chef d'oeuvre. A voir. Le plan de Brasilia a été imaginé par Costa. 1 avion : 1 queue, 2 ailes, 1 nez. Dans la queue, rien, dans les ailes, tout, dans ...
Beautiful, beautiful Iguassu
After the events of yesterday we were so pleased that Iguassu did not fail to impress. The falls are absolutely stunning. What more can I say?? Shame we couldn´t linger but we had to go to the airport in the afternoon for our FLIGHTS to Rio - yes, ...
Brasilia, I'm living in a jetplane....
... all the way to Brasilia. So what is so very interesting about Brasilia? First of all, it's Brazil's capital. Not Rio. Brasilia is. I think it's a little bit funny, naming the capital city "Brasilia", just like Bolivia's money, they called ...
Characters on Tour
... as the next Michael Flatley with his horrendous dance moves. Zorro got off to an early start with his master swordsman skills in Brazil, as expected. Falls in love far too easily though, and becomes a text pest. In fact the only reason he brought his ...
Not singing in the rain.......
Tuesday morning brought sounds from outside I wasn't expecting at all. RAIN. In Rio? Yup. Wrongly I'd assumed it couldn't possibly rain in Rio. HA! So we went wandering along the same stretch of beach as the day before despite the weather, ...
Footie Fever in South America
Hey from Footie fever land ... Brazil really is the place to be for the World Cup and im incredibly lucky to be experiencing such amazing ambience and street parties now that im a so-called lone traveller! Theres so much to tell but will keep it pretty ...
Adventure in Chopada Dos Veadeiros
... of 500,000 inhabitants. We spent the morning looking through JK memorial (President Juscelino Kubitschek who ordered the construction of Brasilia) which was pretty impressive, taking in the views from the TV tower and looking in the very unusual churches. ...
Amazon
... beauty of nature and the rainforest. That night we left for the airport at midnight to catch our 2 am flight from Manaus to Brasilia for a 5 hour layover in Brasilia it was funny watching the locals come off their flights and see tons of white students ...
mandala island
its good to have friends with private islands! was lucky enough to get invited to spend a weekend on this amazing island. i went with my swedish friends and a cornishman. it turned out to be an unbelievable weekend. the daughter of the family who owned ...
Waterfalls and then some.
... ummms and aaahs particularly as it was 35 pounds and that seemed such a large amount given the small amounts I'd spent so far in Brazil. They booked it through the hostel. They continued to plug away though and in the end I thought why not and so we ...
Episode 4 - Rio and Rain...
... it a far cry from the Corcovado staring down on it from the mountain. "A reflection of the changing position of Catholism in Brazil?" I mused rather deeply, while lining up a picture of the two. Damn I can be so intelligent sometimes!! On through the ...
Kicking around on a piece of ground
" (...) Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire" Brasília se preparou para me receber de volta, 18°C e nublado (mesmo na seca). Nada melhor para dormir e tentar ...
Lucky streak
... me for a few days out to Chapada with Ivesan's car. - There was a very cool rockfestival happening where othes flew to Brasilia for, and I coincidentally was there just then.- Also a animated film festival going on - I wanted to go to Pirenopolis, a cute ...
I don't like Mondays (or coaches)
Today started off with so many good intentions. Sun cream - check. Money to buy obligatory soft toy and copious amounts of food - check Digital camera - check. MP3 Player safely tucked away in locker - ch..Oh hang on where's my MP3 player????? ...
Rio
You should think yourselves lucky I didn´t put any naff title above. I thought of so many........ Anyway, taking off from where I last left off, we caught a taxi from the airport at one of the booths despite my having read at some point in my ...
A Primeira Mentira de Julio Verne
A Primeira Mentira de Julio Verne (Reflexões antes da partida) Phileas Fogg, personagem principal da "Volta ao Mundo em 80 dias", teve um "estalo" logo de manhã, e resolveu girar o planeta. À noite, já saía de Londres, rumo a Paris,oriente ...
Brasilia - a worthwhile unscheduled stop...
... to go and have a look for ourselves and were very pleasantly surprised by what we found. History lesson time: Brasilia is the capital city of Brazil built from the ground up only 49 years ago. It took 3 years to go from dust to a fully functional ...
Incredible Iguazu
We took a bus from Rio to the Iguazu falls on our way to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The bus was OK, it was a our first long ride, the bust was clean and made several pit stops for food or clean toilets. Since we didn't understand Portuguese we made ...
Bizzarre Brasilia, capital of Brazil
Got here saturday night. Elter, a contact through SERVAS, picked me up at the airport and took me to his girlfriends, Marcella´s, who is hosting me while I´m here. Very sweet girl, shes driving me around everywhere and feeding me. I finally got to buy ...
Partiuski!
Eu e André Afonso partimos hoje de Brasília rumo ao mundo ex-comunista. Em nossas andanças encontraremos meliantes como Antonio Cottas, Igor Germano, Daniel Ducci e Flávia (não-meliantes), Guilherme Belli, Danilove Costa, entre outros. Vamo que ...
Candido and family
... as they were living in, and learning about, ours. I knew one day I would see them again in Brazil. So, Peter, Carly, Molly and I arrived in Brasilia and waiting for us was Candido, his wife Patricia, his son Alfredo, his daughter Marianna and my mom ...
We didn´t know the bus went into Brazil
... then Spanish. We road on the bus for about 20 minutes, when bob pointed out that the sign we just passed said Welcome to Brazil. This was a little disconcerting, seeing its large fine not to have you US$100 visa and oh yeah we thought we were going to ...
51º dia: Volta ao Mundo Concluída
Retornei ao Brasil, no 51º dia de viagem. Completei uma das muitas Voltas ao Mundo possíveis, e ao alcance de todo aquele que tenha verdadeiro interesse em abraçar o planeta Terra, planejando e priorizando esse projeto, e abrindo mão de outros ...
THE HOME STRETCH - AMAZON NEXT
... a while, since he'd never done it before, but we finally got our piece of paper. It was clear we could have driven off into Brazil without it, but doubtful whether we could get the Jeep out at the other end. So we headed off finally to find the road to ...


