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Oi Oi from Rio!
... in the streets, kids on the lookout to pickpocket whatever they can - you have to keep your wits about you.
The accommodation we first booked was in an area we didn't feel too comfortable in so we moved to a hotel near Copacabana beach - we've definitely blown our budget for this country - but we put the new hotel on the credit card! We'll pay it off later! :) The new hotel is much better, its only 2 minutes to the beach too which means it's ...
The Big City
... but a spectacular electrical storm sporadically illuminated the vast expanse of dense jungle below to give us tantalising glimpses.
Rio was our first experience this trip of sharing a dormitory with other people. It was a small hostel in Ipanema, with one double room and one eight bed dorm in which we had a bunk bed - Jemma took the bottom and Paul took the top. The price and lack of availability of other accommodation in Rio had necessitated this step into the ...
Rocking Rio and the Itacare dream.
... if you build skyscrapers (one of our guides in BA called them skycrappers... He he) to the waters edge, you destroy the beach. But Ipanema and Copacobana... well, the grandeur of the "headlands" either side dwarf the whole scene and on the clear days where we toured the city there was only need for one word: Wow.
A special trip was taken out to the outskirts of the city to see Roberto Burle Marx's garden (the bloke who designed the ...
From Rio With Love
April 14. We are off to the Iguazu Falls - Argentinian side. That, of course, requires another flight but this time we leave from the domestic airport in Buenos Aires which means no immigration forms to fill in. We arrive at our hotel by mid-afternoon and have our first glimpse of the falls. The hotel, the Sheraton, is the only hotel inside the national park. Our rooms have a jungle view which means that we look out on the rainforest. But from ...
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
... favelas in Santa Teresa. However, when we get there we are told that due to "extreme circumstances" the tram cannot run!! We decide to bus it to the Sugar Loaf mountain as the metro didn't seem to be taking us anywhere other than a bus stop. As we leave Santa Teresa, Craig declares that we must start increasing our walking speed as a number of homeless people start to follow us. I am too heat exhausted and don't really take in what he is saying until he grabs my arm and drags me ...