Brazil
Travel Blogs from Brazil
29 today and bitten on the arse by red fire ants
... and blue macaws. All in all a great experience and got close to the Galapagos for a complete wild life experience. After a delayed bus journey, we just made are over night bus south to Igassu falls on the Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil ...
The Caranguejo Express
... a desperate situation - comes in handy. I knew - when looking at my large and detailed and expensive map of Brazil, purchased specifically to prepare me for the special situations which would inevitably arise while traveling in Brazil - that there ...
A Whale of a Tale
... encountered when he visited while travelling on the HMS Beagle in 1832. Abrolhos - which literally translates as "open your eyes"- is Brazil's first marine park, and was created in 1983 to protect and study the whales, and to preserve the coral reefs ...
Ilha Grande and Paraty
After a week of busy beaches and chock a block streets in Rio we decided to take it easy on the relaxing island of Ilha Grande (about 3 hours south of Rio). As we arrived the weather took a turn for the worst and it ended up raining for a full 24 hours ...
music and passion are always the fashion (brasil)
I awoke on the banks of the Parana River having survived my barrel ride over Iguazu Falls. Not the easiest way into Brasil, but the quickest. Climbed up to the road and caught a bus into the city which just happened to have all my bags onboard. Foz do ...
Saucer in Niteroi
Today is the last day of Marvin. He´s flying back tomorrow to Chavez land, Republica de Bolivar de Venezuela. We met at the same meeting place, Campos Siqueira Metro Station. We walked up to the port from Carioca Station and took the ferry across ...
Surfing at Santa Caterina
With only a couple of weeks until we have a flight back to the UK from Buenos Aires we continued heading South through Brazil. Next stop was a small city called Curitiba where we spent a pleasant couple of days in and around the centre.. lots of shops ...
Life on the Farm
... bus was running very late as we'd heard it had been stopped three times by the local federal police. The run from Bolivia to Brazil is a known drug trafficking route, hence their diligence (either that or they are bored. They did come on two more times on ...
Belém
Belém, Brazil Nov 3-4 Ok. The mouth of the Amazon -- where it feeds into the Atlantic. Otherwise known as a place to skip! Not much here, a fun dinner at some restored docks. And a musician playing on a moving platform...hmmm. Managed to find ...
Itacare
... (passing 4 gorgeous beaches) to get to a totally protected and isolated beach. It is meant to be the best beach in Brazil. http://www.itacare.com/itacare/praias/guia.php?zoom=3&praia=prainha&force=〈=english Well, I don´t know about ...
beachy
We crossed the border into Brazil and took an overnight bus to Curitiba, a large town in the South. When we arrived in the morning we headed for the train station and caught the 9:30 to Morrettes. The train crossed through a ...
Jumping off a cliff!
... a restaurant, Bar do Armaudo which specialises in NE Brazilian food. It was fantastic and possibly best meal have had in Brazil (even better than Churrascarias in my view). Had lovely steak with beans with cheese, farofa (manioc flour) but with ...
Arrival in Manaus, Brazil
... Then two customs agents/police officers go through the bags. Everything came out...including the dirty socks. I suppose the Colombia/Brazil border is a fairly interesting place to be. They were actually really nice -- and they had smiles and everyone ...
the best concert EVER
WOW. So there you are in the middle of South America nd you find out that soemone you know happens to be in the same general vicinity well what do you do with that dilema ? Well you change your flight and hook up with them of course. So we were on our ...
Double Booked
... we’ve eaten. So now we try to choose foods which are in some ways similar to ours. Some of the vegetables here in Brazil are pickled, I have to stay away from those. And off course, if I have too much of the delicious freshly squeezed orange juice, ...
The Last Leg
... of the country without a problem, but the bus driver didn´t stop at the Brazilian border and so I was never officially in Brazil (apparently this was because it was a Brazilian bus company and so they assume everyone onboard has the right to be there). ...
The Night of the Long Knives
Stupidly, sometime over the last few days, I remember telling a group of travellers how, as much as South America has the potential to be dangerous, if you remain sensible you can avoid anything serious happening to you. This was all ...
Manaus - Day 83-84
Day 83 - 30/03/09 Arrived at the docks in Manaus just before sunrise. Myself and a couple of other Gringo's from the boat got shafted by unscrupulous taxi driver, but after getting off the boat I just wanted to dump my bags and sleep horizontally ...
Been up on a hill with Christ!!
Got the 9.30am local bus to take us to the train station at the bottom of the Christ the Redeemer hill. The bus took about 45 minutes and went all over town. I suppose it was like getting a free city tour in the deal I suppose. There was a 30 minute ...
Dead caiman
... trip tomorrow to look around. I bet Lynn can’t wait to get into a car again. I must admit I’m enjoying our jaunts around Brazil on the buses. The service is good and I can take my computer on board and catch up with the pod journal on the long ...
Early morning flying!
Last night went to the theatre in Manaus for a free dress rehearsal - weird contemporary dance - glad it was free! The theatre was lovely and still amazing to see such a place in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest. Said our goodbyes to the ...
Cobbles, Cocktail and Carnemar
A colonial style town, made wealthy in the 18th century, and now a protected site, Parati was our next port of call. On advice we stayed just outside town in a village called Trinidade for a couple of nights, and by village I mean literally one street ...
Brasil Brasil Brasil
Day 26. 12 November 2007 (Recife, Brazil) Woke up early again and looked out the window and we're docked in Recife Brasil!! Can't work put where we are in relation to any of the maps we have but think that Olinda is directly ...
Stalked...By An Alligator!
... I hung around a little longer in Santa Cruz. To be honest I just didn`t know where to go next. Eventually I plumped to head to Brazil! To The Pantanal, I had to go and see what those Evil Clowns were on about! I had to catch the overnight train to the ...
Water water everywhere
... out, bringing with it the coatis (raccoon type things) and butterflies and rainbows in the spray. Just beautiful. Today I went to Brazil! It was quite easy to cross the border - although the Argentines quite like to stamp your passport on the way ...
City of Gods
Its seems a long time ago since I have update my blog and so much has happened since then. I am now in Buenos Aires and just recovering from two weeks of hard travel and a drunken Saturday night. I have been in the jungle chasing armadillos on horse ...
Solo in Sao Paulo
... used by massive trucks with crazy loud sound systems - on top you find all the biggest music (pop mostly) stars in Brazil right now. Surrounding them are dozens-hundreds of people holding a rope and security policing who gets inside to follow freely and ...
Moro de Sao Paolo
Nov 5 - 8 Moro de Sao Paolo Amazing amazing amazing. Will update when we can manage to consider spending more than 15 minutes at a time on the Internet when we could be out on these amazing beaches or sipping a Capriahina... What a wonerful stop ...
The Paris of the Tropics
I finally flew into Manuas in the heart of the Amazon after an insane few weeks in Rio. The air temperature was like a rush when I jumped off the plane. Before long I was at my hostel of choice and had hoisted my hammock up in my room with the ...
On the road again
... some real live gauchos tending their cattle on horseback. I wonder do they do this on quad bikes or with helicopters in other parts of Brazil as they do in Australia, I guess so. The only incident we found a little unnerving was when a semi trailer was ...
