Slaviero Palace Hotel Curitiba

... bag for the work equipment and safety gear. One small roller-board for work clothes and street clothes. And one backpack for laptop, hard drives, and other electronics. If I'm going for more than more than a week, whether its 2 weeks or 2 months, I only need a little bit more. <br><br>I'm not gonna write too much ...

... Oscar Neimeyer Museum which is a really interesting art museum. At night, I went to a couchsurfing meeting at a bar. To my surprise, there was a band playing country music there! I was even more surprised when half the people at the bar knew the lyrics to all the songs! Apparently a lot of people in Curitiba like country music for some reason ...

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 ...

... ultimate answer.) It was a pleasure to see a better way of doing things. Thanks Daio! Afterwards, I sat outside. I played sax and conversed with the many people around us in the patio of the hostel. That night I would enjoy a REALLY EXPENSIVE dinner. Daio would meet us both at the restaurant once we were done and would take us to a special Jazz ...

... purple artichoke, pinhoes (giant pine nuts from the rare araucaria trees of parana, they taste similar to chestnuts) among lots of other produce. The food prices in Curitiba are MUUUCH cheaper than in Sao Paulo and Rio. Curitiba is known for its cleanliness: it is considered one of the cleanest capital cities in all of Latin America and you can tell by walking in the market. The floors are clean, the fruit and veggies are clean ...

... to Sao Paulo. Suffice it to say we decided to give up on the train idea, and bought tickets for Thursday for the bus to Sao Paulo. After that we decided to go and see the sights in Curitiba. There was a big shopping mall in the map we got from the tourist information, and we thought it`d be nice to walk around in it. A 20 minute walk later we arrived in a deserted building, in which the ...

... now you can find it in Google Earth if you wish. Well, I arrived in Curitiba on a Saturday morning, coming from a 6 hour bus trip from Sao Paulo on a surely-not-as-comfortable-as-my-bed "leito" (hard sleeper). After meeting my friend at the bus station we headed to the city center to get the "Linha Turismo", a hop on hop off bus line that takes you to the most interesting places in the city. We took it at "Praça Tiradentes", right at ...

... the station said the same time as our watch. Yes, you can guess! The clocks had gone back so actually we´d got up at 5am!!!! Anyway, the train ride was very picturesque - but we were both a bit disappointed as it was not really what we were expecting. For some reason me and Ben thought the views were going to be more of the sweeping coastline when heading into Paranangua. It took over 5 hours (!!) to get there ...

... waren sehr sauber, hier und da spielten Kinder oder waren Fischer am Fluss zu sehen. Da das Wetter so gut war, plantschten die Kids auch ausgelassen im Wasser. Direkt am Fluss war eine huebsche Bruecke mit netten kleinen Restaurants, also haben wir uns auf eine Veranda gesetzt, das Treiben am Fluss beobachtet und ein typisches Gericht der Region gegessen. Es ist klein gehacktes gekochtes Fleisch, man mischt es mit Maniokmehl und macht ...