Destination: Brazil
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Sun, 30 Sep 2007 | By dirosa | Views [2367] | Comments [3]
What is a true Brazilian ? The country is so diverse with a strong mix of Portugese , African, Native Indian amongst many others that it is true to say a true Brazilian does not have white or black skin, brown or blue eyes. Brasil is the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 24 Jan 2009 | By k-lero | Views [458] | Comments [8]
Actualizo! Ahora mismo estoy en Río de Janeiro, la 'cidade maravilhosa', algún anho después de que viniera por primera vez, y bueno, ya vuelvo a estar sólo de nuevo tras haber estado 3 semanas con Ziortza recorriendo la costa brasileira; la dejé ayer ... Read more >
Tags: santa catarina, ilhabela, paraty, ilha grande, brasil
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 | By lionel14 | Views [680] | Comments [8]
ENGLISH Arrived in Salvador de Bahia (Nord East Brazil) at 18:30 after a 2:30 hours flight and 2 hours bus ride from the airport. This time i am staying a The Youth Hostel Laranjeiras in the heart of Pelourinhou (the old town). The place is georgous ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 8 Feb 2009 | By k-lero | Views [546] | Comments [11]
He vuelto a la civilización! Bueno, estoy en Bolivia, así que que en mayor o menor medida puedo decir eso, y por ahora me encanta este país! He tenido un comienzo bastante intenso, la verdad, pero lo cuento mejor al final... Antes de venir he pasado ... Read more >
Tags: pantanal, brasil
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 | By sandn | Views [9592] | Comments [6]
I will explain more about the title later but thought it was time for me to take control of the journal and add a male point of view, especially as it was becoming, as Sam said, "....snapped from a travel mag..". Oh, and the Mighty Dragons!!!!!! ... Read more >
Tags: party time
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 | By abelaine | Views [1498]
Getting there - There are 2 main bus lines ' Pluma ' and ' kaiowa '. Costs are not cheap for a regular crappy bus 130 REALs or for a basic sleeper bus 204-215 REALs. This was a shock as we had heard so many great stories of the bus system and great ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 | By k-lero | Views [448] | Comments [10]
Vale, o no escribo en dos semanas o escribo dos días seguidos... pero es que esto iba atrasado y tocaba ponerse al día... Pues sí, Iguazú... Como decía en el otro capítulo es uno de los escenarios naturales más impresionantes que he visto en mi vida, ... Read more >
Tags: iguazu, brasil, argentina
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 | By lionel14 | Views [594] | Comments [6]
ENGLISH Arrived in
Rio at 6:30 in the morning after a 7 hours overnight bus ride from Sao Paulo. I am greeted
with a lovely breakfast by my host for few days Roberta. She lives in Botafogo
a busy neighborhood half way between the historical ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 | By bjjgirl | Views [2654] | Comments [5]
In one week I will be returning to Canada, and so I think it is fitting that yesterday I was baptized here in Brazil with my first, pretty black eye as a goodbye gift. The training has been difficult, to say the least, and yesterday was my hardest ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 | By nickandlaina | Views [587] | Comments [5]
Coração, Corazón, Heart, or Soul. Whatever word you use, Brazilians have it. Once I was on a bus, and as you know I can´t speak portuguese. The bus driver knew I couldn´t speak and He smiled, and help out with our bags, and gave me a big thumbs up, as ... Read more >
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 | By simonefrancis | Views [1630] | Comments [1]
Rio kind of became like a second home to me after staying there for about a month. Just about every day in this city brings an adventure. Carnival was craaaaazy!! You couldn´t go anywhere in the city without running into a party! I went to catch ... Read more >
Tags: rio, carnival, passport
Mon, 2 Feb 2009 | By k-lero | Views [390] | Comments [6]
En Río dejé la historia y en Río la retomo. Nueve días pasé en Río, todo el tiempo en un albergue en el que había un excelente ambiente y donde conocí multitud de gente. La verdad es que el clima no acompanhó en todo ese tiempo, pero ni la ausencia ... Read more >
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 | By heywoods1976 | Views [251] | Comments [3]
After our 4 days in Rio – it was time to move on – not because we had exhausted the city, but it is just so expensive to be there. We still were in the company of Steven and James and decided what better place to chill out (a little more) than the ... Read more >
Tags: ilha grande, buzios
Thu, 3 May 2007 | By lani | Views [11749] | Comments [2]
Well, its been the best of times here for me in Brasil... and what better way to spend my last day in Brasil doing the things that have made me so happy on my travels here.... I started on Ipanema beach, sunning and swimming and just watching the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 | By lionel14 | Views [708] | Comments [6]
ENGLISH Wouah! It s been ages since I have given any news ... apologies! From Recife I decided to go to Fortaleza in the state of Cerea (to the North). After the now usual 12 hours (ha-ha) bus trip I got to Fortaleza and staid in a backpackers ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 2 Jul 2008 | By sarahandphil | Views [600] | Comments [2]
Hi everyone, You remember that last time we wrote, we were telling you how brilliant the weather had been in Salvador and how we'd spent every day basking in sunshine on the beach? So, can you guess what happened next....? That's right, it tipped it ... Read more >
Thu, 1 Jan 2009 | By heywoods1976 | Views [1220] | Comments [1]
Still in Rio and learning more about the city. When we were staying at the Surf and Stay, we met an Australian girl who was over here working as a tour guide, and she insisted that we should do favela (meaning slum) tour when we were in Rio. I, initially ... Read more >
Wed, 4 Jul 2007 | By aach | Views [150] | Comments [2]
PORTUGALSCINA Poznam ljudi, ki so se od vedno zeleli uciti enega jezika. Meni je portugalscina na mojo pot prisla kot veliko presenecenje. Na sliki smo ljudje, ki smo se iz celega sveta nakapljali v Bridge Linguatec v Riu de Janeiru ucite novega ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 | By jimandnicadventure | Views [113] | Comments [5]
Wednesday
12 th August
Iguazu
Falls
We
thought we got wet yesterday. Today we were saturated completely.
We were picked up by our driver/guide early this morning and headed
across the border ... Read more >
Sun, 9 Sep 2007 | By lionel14 | Views [654] | Comments [5]
ENGLISH
On the 26/09
I flew back from R e cife to Sao
Paulo and manage to spend a bit of time with my friend
Rodrigo (who hosted me the first time around) and on the 30/09 I flew to Foz de
Iguaçu where I spend few days discovering ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 | By luchinko | Views [1025] | Comments [1]
That was hell of a flying day. Arrived Foz do Iguazu about midday, quickly bussed to the urban bus terminal, left our luggage, and sped up to the Iguazu falls. I was with the English couple, Maria and Matt, and we were on the same mission: see Brazil ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 | By simonefrancis | Views [509] | Comments [1]
I finally got off the boat from Manaus to Belem! A couchsurfing host
named Fabien picked me up and took me to his apartment, which is
located in the middle of the city in a nice, high rise building
apartment. He spoilt me insanely over the next few ... Read more >
Tags: brazil, favela, belem, bus
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [488] | Comments [1]
We arrived in Rio's Novo Rio bus station at about 3 in the afternoon, over 2 hours after leaving Copacobana. The reason for the delay was a torrential rainstorm. We had had a lot of rain in Rio but things had certainly stepped up a notch. Our destination ... Read more >
Tags: modern art, buffet, natural disaster, ipod, gaucho
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By thebigtrip | Views [301] | Comments [1]
Rio. What an awesome city? 7 nights there just wasn't long enough. None of us wanted to leave this incredible place.
The hostel was cool and all the staff were really nice. Especially Bill
the night porter who continually threw us out free ... Read more >
Tags: rio de janeiro
Tue, 18 Aug 2009 | By jimandnicadventure | Views [109] | Comments [1]
Monday
16 th August
Salvador
Salvador
(translation: Jesus) is the ancient capitol of Brazil and the old
part of the city was heritage listed by UNESCO late last century. We
had the absolute ... Read more >
