Brasilia
Travel Blogs from Brasilia, Brazil
Início
Saímos de casa às 6:00 da manhã. A estrada, mais viável, que vai de Brasília a Barra do Garças passa por Goiânia. Há um caminho por Anápolis, mas parece que a estrada está interditada por causa de uma ponte que caiu. Passaremos em Trindade, que ...
The Rainmaker Arrives
... here...and they're not even drunk! Naturally the plane was delayed but thankfully at our boarding gate was the junior brazil soccer team who kept me entertained by throwing food, screaming, running amok and parading the trophy they has just ...
When my baby smiles at me I start typing
... I could find was an old lady walking a dog...the dog was kind of cute... Lots of people riding bicycles, a few selling brazil soccer tops and number plates anf heaps of cars, all swerving in an dout of lanes whilst never using their indicators..a ...
Journey to Brasilia
We flew with Oceanair to Brasilia to look at some Oscar Niemeyer architecture in the new capital of ...
a chaotic road to brasilia
... gerais onto the central plateau with red soil. Munching on a nice ham and cheese sandwich and my first glass of guarana..Brasilia arrives, airplane shaped from the sky. One can see murundus, strange mounds of unknown origin near the airfield. Its past 3 ...
Journey to the Panatanal via Briazilia
... , running over an our late and it was 2am...) I fell into conversation with a local, heading home to a town on the outskirts of Brasilia. He was a geologist and after a month of being on the road, as was necessitated by work, he was returning home to see ...
CONFLITO DE DATA
Adriana vai casar no dia 17 de dezembro, e nossa viagem está marcada para o dia 10. O problema é que no dia 11 termina a baixa estação e, indo na semana seguinte, o preço da viagem sobe muito. Como já estamos dando o passo muito maior do que as ...
Juliana and Anna
A little old woman took this picture of Juliana and I. We sat on the egde, high at the top of Sugar Loaf. We let our legs hang over, my shoes nearly falling off, so I went barefoot. So many people from all over the world, watching the sun set over Rio. ...
AJUDA PRECIOSA
Conversei com a dra. Ilma, psicóloga da escola das crianças, sobre o medo da Leca. Ela deu umas dicas bem legais. Falou que, provavelmente, ela está com medo do desconhecido, já que nunca viajou de avião. Disse para eu tentar mostrar para ela como ...
Brasilia
Our flight landed in Brasilia at 7 in the morning where we promplty caught a taxi to the bus station and barely made our 8am bus to Mineiros. The bus was really nice and comfortable but 12 hours long! Again, the landscap was beautiful and the ...
Finally made it!!!!
I'm writing from the hotel is Brasilia, Brazil, where I'm staying while in Brasilia for work. After about eight months with no travel for work, my time came again...this time to Brazil and Paraguay. The trip to Brasilia is only for about 48 ...
I am a friggin retard
Going against conventional wisdom and advise of many at the hostel, I decided to walk the seemingly achievable distance to the Rio bus station. Armed with only my daypack for my fortnight-long visit to Paulo's and maybe to Salvador, I set out at ...
1 - 13 Dec: At home in Brasilia
... the local hot favorite Cafe Cancun and to not-so-happening house music at Fashion Club. On my penultimate afternoon in Brasilia, Leticia and Cibele (the beautiful Brasilian twins of Japanese heritage that I had met at Alessandra's Christmas party for her ...
Fruit Markets in Rio
The most amazing, fresh, colorful, abundant fruit! I wanted to buy it all, but Juliana reminded me we still had so much more food to taste in Rio. ...
ROUPAS, SEMPRE ROUPAS!
Levar três crianças pequenas, acostumadas ao calor, para um ambiente de frio intenso não é tarefa fácil. Acabei de descobrir isso. Não sei bem o que eles devem usar. Tia Celina e Ildefonso deram uma colaboração fantástica: macacões ...
Brasília
... . Like downstairs, there was and never is and furniture, except a table on which to sign treaties, the table being significant as Brazil's independence treaty was signed on it way back when. The rest of the rooms in the palace contained a mix of older and ...
Feliz Natal
Preparations We spent all day getting the house ready for the party. Since the house has been under construction since May, there was a lot to clean up. Oh! Anais, you said you were looking for a construction worker. There's a very nice Brazilian one ...
Day one!
... updates! Thank you for your patience and support! May 4 -Not much to talk about during the 8.5 –hour flight to Brasilia. Chicken or pasta? How well can you sleep sitting straight up in turbulence? ...
Sloths and slothliness
This post is being written from Brasilia, having flown there from Panama City. From now on, there are no more planes until I reach Guayaquil, in more than three months time. I managed to do a lot in my few days in Panama including, firstly, a boat ...
Welcome to Brazil
Of course as we go through customs, Sue gets the red light. We're running short on time to meet the ship at noon, so we start getting a little nervous. As they check Sue's bags, Ceil is in charge of exchanging money and ordering a cab. This actually ...
Brasilia - the capital
A change in my flights gave me 10 unexpected hours in Brasilia. I had torn that bit out of my Lonely Planet guidebook, but the guy at the tourist info bureau at the airport was very impressed about me speaking some Portuguese and he was extremely helpful ...

