Holiday Inn Express Santa Felicida Curitiba

... tonite....I'd like to get some sleep. We'll see where I go next or if I stay here for another few days. Then I may get to go back to China (Yanzhou) this coming week.<br><br><br>***UPDATE***<br>Since Louise asked, here's a link to a pic of their Rt. 66 Burger <br><br>And here's some pics of the restaurant itself<br>

I really like Curitiba. There are plenty of parks here and the architecture is beautiful. The city is also very environmentally friendly and half the people I meet here are vegetarians! There are several vegetarian restaurants which is good, because up until now fruits, nuts, and cheese have probably made up about 75% or my diet. I arrived here on ...

After the first days we wanted to discover the region around Curitiba and so we wanted to rent a car. It was difficult to find one because we found all to expensive. Than we found Rent a Car Curitiba and they make promotions. So we could rent ...

<br> Continuing on towards Curitiba we have at last found one of the toll stations that shows that dual wheels count as type 2 in terms of tolls and so now we know what we have to pay. It was a day of varied scenery, but almost all day was wet. On arrival at ...

... designed and built by Oscar Niemeyer. His building, designed after a local type of tree that grows tall and has a wide shady top bit, looks more like the shape of an eye. Go into the eye! My hotel was cheap and super clean, if not personality-less. The buffet breakfast is pretty good too, it´s 10BRL extra. The room was 90BRL ($40) a night. The location was hard to beat too. I´d just come from a hot and grimy area of Rio and the ...

... of the tree were different colors, green, orange, yellow, very beautifully. The group I was with were the guests of the church, and their congregation seemed to be mostly fairly young, but very nice and sweet people. I wouldn't call them hippies or anything, just regular people in this part of brazil. They were dressed very nicely and were very polite. During the whole experience, a lot of these congregation were either playing an instrument (guitar ...

... Havianas (trendy flip flops) - the main street has about 20 shoe shops, unbelievably they were all busy. We then set off to find the botanical gardens - it looked so simple on the map. After 1 hour looking for the gardens we gave up! We´ve certainly burned off our breakfast cake today!! We then went for the night bus setting off at 9pm arriving in Foz Do Iguazu at 6am. The seats fully reclined but very little leg room, an experience.

... back. Despite repellent they settled on us by the dozen and we were leaping around like madmen waving our arms. There is a path back through the trees and shrubs of the island, with wild pineapples, orchids and bromeliads, and dare we say it, more of those damned march flies. They must like overcast weather. There were none yesterday in the hot sun. The boats back to the mainland took away most of the weekend tourists and we almost have the place to ourselves tonight.

... and are charged a set weight per kilogram. The quality of the food has varied from place to place but on the whole the food has been pretty good especially the meat. The restaurants all have grills or barbeques with big pieces of meat cooking. They obviously like their salt over here as all the meat is salted - Matt is certainly happy with that! The sausages are really good as well (even better than the UK) - they are pure meat with no ...

... overall colinial feeling to it which reminded my of the hotel up in santa marta columbiaaa.....there is harldy any traffic here pace of life seems to be real slow and lots of artisans shops around......went for a weee swim in the river as welll which was so refreshing.......its not the kind of place you wana rush through so perhaps at least a few nights here before hitting the coast or some beach time. i just ...