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Tropical Island
We left Rio on Sunday at noon after spending the morning on Copacabana beach. We had a 2 hour private bus journey followed by 1 hour on a ferry to reach this lovely tropical island - Ilha Grande.The weather was hot & humid when we arrived & as our hotel was at the top of a very steep and uneven hill we decided to pay a local guy £1.50 each …
A hike I actually enjoyed!
... I did Priya thought she might as well. I went to Caroline and Beckys and they ended up coming too. So of we went. Laura never mentioned to us that we would be climbing a slippery mountain basically. It turned out to be a fairly pleasant walk even though I was not feeling great and was exhausted from a lack of sleep.
We got to see tiny monkeys along the way and I think the thing that topped it of was what we saw on the beach. A Penguin. There was a ...
Big(ish) Island
... br> thoughtfully put a large-ish island a few hours to the South – Isla Grande. To
get there did involve sitting on a city bus through Rio traffic for an hour (not
so good), then a fairly relaxing and nice comfortable four hours or so on a
comfy bus, a fairly long walk along the seafront and finally a 1.5 hour ferry
trip across to the Island.
After the ...
Paradise, Brazil style
After our night flight from Campo Grande to Rio - with a stopover in Sao Paulo ensuring we really got no sleep - we then took a minibus along the coast for a couple of hours, followed by a boat to get us to Ilha Grande. I was nodding off on the boat ride on the way over, which seemed to last forever..yet when we finally arrived on the shore of the main beach, Vila Abrao, it was all worth it. We checked in to a beautiful Pousada and kicked things off with an early ...
Next stop paradise!
... healed significantly since then though. Although to be fair it did swell and bruise quite a lot. I thought, at this point, that Ilha Grande could be cursed as we met a couple in Rio (The Wells, Nikki and Dave) who had just come from Ilha Grande, where Nikki had just broken her foot. Me and Chas dispelled the curse though by playing with some Brazilian form of a hacky sack for about 2 hours without injury. The aim is to hit it to each other with ...
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