Luxor Vila Boa Vida I Buzios

... fine. As soon as their hang glide was off the ledge, there was no more waiting around. He just said 'run' and we were off. It was unreal. We were gliding 500 metres over Rio with the most incredible view below us. I asked him what happened up there, and he told me 'That guy is ****, maybe his wife is sleeping with the dog'. I was a little concerned for Max. We flew for about 5 or 7 minutes, then landed on the beach. I have no idea what I was bricking it about. It was so ...

... fancy cars, the perfectly coifed purebred dogs. This is the home of the rich. Everywhere in seems in Brazil, people are just nice - from people giving you advice on where to go (or not go) or helping you translate pineapple into Portuguese (definitely felt a lot more helpless in terms of communication in Brazil than in Uruguay or Argentina). The next morning I woke up to a gorgeous sunny morning where after taking the very easy-to-use public ...

... with adventure sports. Not that shopping in Letterkenny was an adventure sport mind you! Katy and Cara saw it through and Sarah had the brains to know she would have done it anyway so didn´t go! Our new roomies, Ben and Sam were also successful...so yes I was the only melodramatic fool on the platform all day!<br><br>For sunset we hit Sugarloaf and got snap happy with the cameras..the pictures will speak for themselves. We tried an authentic Brazilian meat buffet thing and several ...

... everything, now only to get them through customs. Today we finally get the song I~ve been looking for for 4 years, perhaps more. I found it in Rio... and will purchase it today. I got for myself a green and silver pasista bikini, a caixa, loads of CD´s and some Orixas costumes. I wanted more but as it is we are probably quite overloaded. Anyways. Today we go for Ipanema. Get back for 2pm departure. Im ready. Susie

We returned by boat from Ilha grande to the mainland, Jon tried to be clever and decided that we would not go back to Angra Dos Reis instead we went to another port closer towards Rio, only when we got there we found there was no buses to Rio, and had to connect in some town on the way. All the way to Rio, the weather was pretty wet, continuing drizzle until we pulled into the Rodoviaria Novo Rio, which is the worst possible introduction to the city of Rio that you could get ...

... Cathedral and finally the headline feature, one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: Christ the Redeemer.  Dominating the skyline over Rio for the past week, it would be a crime not to visit the city and not get a closer inspection.  Firstly, this particular statue sits on an impressively high mountain in the middle of a city the size of London, no small drama there.  Then, when we eventually made it to the top to see our much-anticipated ...

... up each morning and go downstairs to have a buffet breakfast with fresh fruit and other exotic stuff. the terrace was close to a boulevard so we could feel the city vibe.<br>ocean? yes!!! now I saw the Atlantic from both sides. and it was from IPANEMA. any bells ringing?<br>so we put on our summer-exotic-holiday-city-clothing and head to the ocean...<br>it takes us only 1 wave to get wet from head to toes... really! not joking.<br>I wish ...

... Soon enough we found something at suitably rock-bottom price, a twin room on a side street a few hundred yards from the beach, owned by a leather-faced brazilian lady, with a voice like golden syrup and an unshakeable belief that we both spoke perfect Portuguese. We dumped our bags and made a bee-line for the sand. The beaches around Buzios are amazing, not least because there are so many - 22 if you believe the tourist ...

... value of just the land is. I get the feeling these 4 girls are very well to do. Debora doesn´t even work or go to school. She plays the sax in a band once in awhile and her parents just give her money, lucky. We get to Joana´s crib and drink up some ****. The two dudes who the other girl´s picked up take a liking to me and we start to become buddies. The one speaks ok english, the other none. They were trying to talk to me in the ...

... and forth, and we did the rest of the sightseeing on our own. I will leave to LJ to describe the actual sights, except to say that they were stunning. While she has a way with words, I can't adequately describe what we say (though we have posted a handful of photos... a small fraction of what we took). When we first caught a glimpse of the falls, my reaction was "holy sh!t." LJ concurred, saying "that's the only way to describe it." Eleanor Roosevelt was reportedly more ...