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Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Carnaval
February 10-11, 2010
Today I left at 8pm from BA to go to Sao Paulo, Brasil. I arrived in Sao Paulo at midnight and had to stay up until 4:30am for my flight to Rio de Janeiro that arrived at 7:10am.
There I met Sam at the airport and we hopped on a bus for Buzios, Brasil which is 3 hours from Rio. Buzios is a small beach town of 20, …
Caiprihina´s should come with a health warning
... looks over Rio. It was an incredible sight and the view from up there was amazing. Even better that we went with a couple we befriended at our hotel and, as they have a child, we got to skip all the queues of tourists! We need to latch on to people with children more often.
We then got the cable car up to Sugar Loaf Mountain and watched the sun set behind Christ The Redeemer (and the very ...
Buzios
... further afield, and bravely boarded a local bus (little mini-vans that darted up and down the main streets).
The driving in Brazil was as mad and unpredictable as Buenos Aires. It seemed the general rule was if there was enough room for a car inbetween the lanes, then a sort of unofficial 3rd lane down the middle of the road was created. This could be used by either direction of travel, with predictable chaotic ...
Hectic begginings Rio Carnival!
... the que for immigration for literally 1hr 50mins, we were never even asked when we would be leaving, just were we would be leaving to! We have since been told that although alot of the countries say they want that stuff, none of them actually do. So we are now in a chilled hostel. Very hot! We went to copacabana beach, huge waves! I already have stupid burn marks, from only an hour and a half. Very burnt hands and 2 triangles on my hips. ...
Carioca!!!!
... sociale a breve scadenza che riguarda una favela di rio. Cerco di farmi spiegare ma capisco poco del progetto in sé, solo che il finanziamento deve arrivare dalla Petrobras, il colosso petroliero nazionale e i soldi credo che vengano poi impiegati per finanziare l'educazione e lo sviluppo dei servizi... a grandi linee questo é il progetto! peró a rio si resdpira già aria di carnevale, o meglio, tutti a quartieri scendono in strada per provare i ...