Destination: Brazil

Travel day to paraty via Sao Paulo

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By justin | Views [935]

26 March: Travel day to Paraty via Sao Paulo 27th March    Arrived in early hours at Sao Paulo bus terminal and caught a transfer to Paraty. The journey seemed to take ages but provided stunning scenery as the bus meandered it's way along the Atlantic ... Read more >

Foz de Iguaçu

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By justin | Views [542]

Made the trip to view the waterfalls from the Brazilian side. The lovely people at Los Troncos had sorted a driver to pick Clare and I up and take us over the Argentinian/Brazilian border (which we could see from the guest house). From the Brazilian ... Read more >

Brazil: Helen's Arrival

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By lockers | Views [474]

March 1 st How excited was I when I was waiting behind the barriers at “Arrivals” at Rio's airport for my sister to come around the corner. I haven't seen any family for going on 8 months. I was looking forward to ... Read more >

Brazil: Paraty

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By lockers | Views [707]

February 26 th – February 28 th Thierry, Matilde and I decided to travel together from the Island of Santa Catarina to Paraty (via breakfast in Sao Paulo's bus station) and after an 18 hour journey up the coast, ... Read more >

Brazil: Carnaval in Floripa/ Island of Santa Catarina

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 | By lockers | Views [666]

  February 22 nd - 25th My fist week of travelling alone coincided with Brazil's biggest festival - carnaval; the mad period of parades, dancing, samba, dressing up and lots of parting held four days before Ash Wednesday. Fearing Rio may just ... Read more >

Gallery: rio

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 | By roy-sarah | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Rio II

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 | By bob_and_caroline | Photo Gallery

Gallery: BRAZIL:CARNAVAL:FIESTAS:BEACHES

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 | By derekandcarla | Photo Gallery

A weekend with Leo & Kelita

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 | By rich | Views [622]

Leo meets us at the bus station at 5am. He's blurry eyed and tired. While we were sleeping for the last 4 hrs on the bus, he was out partying, waiting to meet us. After a quick, crazy ride we get to his apartment, where we all crash for the next few ... Read more >

CAIO MOUSSALEM

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 | By simonefrancis | Views [1709] | Comments [1]

Caio Moussalem was born in a town called Cuiaba in the country side of Brazil, but now lives and studies in Rio de Janeiro. I stayed at his house for a few days through couchsurfing and found him to be a very intelligent and motivated person, who I ... Read more >

Gallery: Rio

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 | By bob_and_caroline | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Sao Paulo

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 | By rich | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Buzios

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 | By bob_and_caroline | Photo Gallery

Take me to see JC!

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 | By rich | Views [508]

Our jovial tour guide proclaims this is what most Americans say to him when they get in his van. We've come back to Rio one last time and although we've been here twice already, we still haven't been up the mountain to see the Cristo - the 35m tall statue ... Read more >

Gallery: JC

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 | By rich | Photo Gallery