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Samba time!
Welcome to what is I suppose the spiritual home of samba and the cariocas - Rio. And how glad I was after another marathon journey from Florianopolis, that I had now aclimatised to life in Brazil somewhat, otherwise the vibrancy of Lapa might have bowled me over. Oh yes, Florianopolis (or Floripá) was a bit of a staging post along the way for me as …
The girl from Ipanema
So of course no trip to Rio would be complete without a visit to its famous beaches. I had been invited to hang out with a couple of cariocas in the afternoon at the beach, so before all that it was off to Paõ de Açucar, or Sugar Loaf for the requisite aerial shots of the city and ride in the cable car (or gondala if you´re a kiwi). It was a pretty …
Endelig i Sydamerika!!
Efter omkring 24 timers transporttid, ankom vi til Rio de Janiro en tidlig morgen kl. 8 paa vores Hostel i Lapa. Lapa er som forventet et arbejderklasse omraade, som pt. lugter af Roskilde festival pga. de transportable WC`er, der staar rundt omkring. Der er masser af gamle forfaldne bygninger der nok har set smukke ud engang - vi er i hvert fald …
Mijn reis weg van Rio
... zijn. De taxichauffeur vroeg mij hoe de bus zou vertrekken... benauwd keek ik hem aan en deelde hem mee dat die om 13.30 was. Hij keek bezorgd op zijn horloge, keek naar het verkeer, keek nogmaals naar zijn horloge en keek mij aan en zei dat het lastig zou worden....
We reden de eerste paar straten door, dat leek uren te duren. Overal verkeer, rode stoplichten en lang wachten... de chauffeur legde mij in langzaam portugees uit dat het verkeer rond deze tijd van de dag altijd ...
Usual travel complications and comeback of CS
... others anymore. Lost again, I came back to the hostel where I met two german girls who are studying und working in Rio. I convinced them to go the samba party and in the end we ended up at the samba party of “Salguera”, which is one of the biggest samba schools of Rio. There we met some other people I already knew from Bahia. It was a nice party with lots of people dancing samba and already preparing for “Carnaval”. At some point ...
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