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Met a legend!
... in Rio it sucks, and with the weather so bad I feel like I won't see anything! I told the girls they were in disbelief too, I'm now the first person leaving! A few caipirinhas to drown my sorrows later we were all going out to a club called melt, our group and a couple of guys from the dorm called Chris and Thomas. It's Yemis birthday at midnight so we need to party AND its free caipirinhas for the ladies until 12! We all got in and I stood ...
River of January?
... and a secondary peak, it is the ideal location to watch the sunset over the beaches, city and mountains to the west. We also spotted a few strange little creatures with wispy ear fur and bushy tails. The sun slowly slipped away, allowing ample photographic opportunities.
Four harrowing bus journeys, two slow tram trips and four cable car rides later we arrived back at the apartment exhausted.
The following day we decided ...
The End!
... the Brazil/Paraguay border and see the Itaipu Dam (apparently the biggest one in the world, or at least was until The Three Gorges was finished in China).
Transportation was a little bit of an issue, as was the border crossings, as I shouldn't technically have been going any further in Brazil, nevermind leaving it and going into Paraguay without any recollection of me being in Brazil in the first place! Either way, I risked looking Brazilian and just walked straight ...
At the Copa, Copacobana
... is quite creepy, with no actual eyes when you look closely, but the stance is cool and we got some photos impersonating it in the sunshine. We also managed to get a couple of clips for our music video which is getting more and more potentially awesome by the second. With these quick fire tours they never give you enough time at each place but I suppose this was what we signed up for today so we moved our feet heavily towards Gustavo and the van to take us back down to ground ...
Everything from radical Christians to Ronaldinho
... People of Oiapoque and then were picked up to go to a football game. It was my first experience of live football and the standards have been set very high.
We watched Fluminense vs Atlético Mineiro and although the game ended 0-0 it was far from a boring match. We were seated in the Fluminense stand and the drumming and chanting was fantastic. There was not a boring second as we saw a spectator get escorted out ...
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