Carlton Hotel Brasilia

More numb bums, swollen feet (from not being elevated - can we PLEASE not be so old!) and another long (21 hour including a 2 hour nap at 1am on a truck stop bench) bus ride to add to our vast collection we arrive in Brasilia. Not originally on our to do list, and against most other travelers advice we decided to go and have a look for ourselves and were very pleasantly surprised by what we found.<br><br> History lesson time: Brasilia is the capital city of ...

Day 11 - as my friend had worked to the Finnish embassy in Brasilia before she was my travel guide through Brasilia, taking me to all the touristic places: - JK bridge; - Paranoá dam; - Dom bosco chapel; - Cathedral; - JK Memorial; - The government ...

... called the Pedro Furada and then went up to the dune to watch the sunset. It´s a little like Cafe del Mar in Ibiza in that everyone congregates and then claps when the sun disappears over the horizon. I then headed out for some drinks with some other guys from the pousada. Next day I did pretty much nothing but soak up the sun and relax. During the evening I got a few people together and arranged a beach buggy trip so we could head to ...

... o apelido que damos aos estudantes que fazem parte deste movimento, que geralmente já foram treinados em evangelismo pessoasl e discipulado. Outra coisa que achei muito interessante naquela igreja foram as pessoas que se disponibilizaram para participar de um projeto missionário no Piauí. Eles ainda estavam arrecadando cestas básicas para levar para o Piauí. O pastor falava muito sobre evangelismo. Foi maravilhoso também ouvir os louvores que ...

... we described to her the Hurlingham Club, the gentleman next to us said: "I'm a member of the club. I was there on Sunday and Monday as well. I saw the Jeep in the parking lot and wondered whose it was." We tried to figure the odds of that happening, but the calculators didn't go that high. John finally identified one shipping company that works out of Fortaleza in Brazil to ship the Jeep to the east coast of Florida, although we couldn't finalize the details. We were now ...

... semblent figurer une pince à linge debout et un decapsuleur/barrette/ouvre-boites penché. C'est tout dire... Mécaniquement, nous nous dirigeons vers la Catedral Metropolitana, autre « chef d'oeuvre » d'Oscar Niemeyer. Oscar, c'est vraiment le roi du symbole. L'entrée souterraine doit rappeler les catacombes de Rome, ou se cachaient les premiers Chrétiens. Les arches de béton courbées qui font la forme génerale rappellent quant à elles un calice à l'envers (un ...

Am Nachmittag des 4.2.08 - d** Karneval war in Salvador noch in vollem Gange - ging´s mit TAM weit** in die brasilianische Hauptstadt, nach BRASÍLIA. Brasília liegt im "Distrito Fed**al" (Bundesdistrikt) und geho**t zur Region Zentralwesten. Sie befindet sich auf einem Hochplateau in rund 1100 Met** ueb** Me**. Die Stadt wurde Mitte d** 50** Jahre aus dem Boden gestampft und 1960 als neue Hauptstadt eingeweiht (vorh** war´s Rio de Janeiro). Das ...

... hour late, dirty and no suspension. Seabra is a dusty hot place, where 6 hours wait would feel like 24, so we didn't mind. The bus to Brasilia kindly waited for us while we ate a quick lunch. Then we found why people in Lencois said 'What, you're not going on Emtram'!. It had no air con, and with temperatures in at least the high 30s for hours, we cooked. We reckon is is destined for Bolivia next week. The scenery was nice, odd-shaped mountains and lots of green before ...

... Superquadras are now very ran down and almost obselete. One such example is the W3 street which was to be the main shopping street in Brasilia, located near to Jimmy K´s inlaws´residence. The W3 is now full of empty buildings and I have to say that I wouldn´t feel very safe walking down there at nighttime judging by the peeps that were hanging out there during the day. Costa also did not predict the demand for private schools which means that ...