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2Brothers3Continents - Claudio e Fernando

Departure date? August 3 2005. Arrival date? When the money runs out. We don't know yet. Used to be at July 2007, but we are stretching for another year. Check out our entry The plan

Claudio (Left):

I have two sayings that guide my life:
1 "Desta vida não se leva nada, só a vida que agente leva. (From this life we don't take anything, just the life we live)"
2 "Its worst to regret of something that you have not done, than something you have done".
Born June first of 1981 in Brazil. Graduated in Computer Engineer in 2003. Worked since graduation as a Bussines Consultant in projects in different countries of the world. - "I finally decided that instead waiting my carrier give me time, I would take time and make my carrier wait. I quit my job and joined my brother in a world trip for 2 years... at least this used to be the plan... hehehe".

Fernando(Right):

I...
...love all that's new: new places, new people, new experiences.
...like the extremes, everything that's just normal doesn't attract me. Has to be the heat of the Sahara or the cold of Siberia, the vibe of a party or the peace of a island.
...am not attached to material things (not anymore), I need only what is in my bag.
...am always in a different place, so I make new friends very easily.
...can communicate by signs with anyone who doesn't speak one of my 5 languages
...go to inhospitable places just to know how it is.
...don't plan. I go with the wind, so don't have date to leave or to arrive.
Freedom is very good, but nobody said it's easy. I had to learn many things to make it possible.

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Safe Journey, Claudio and Fernando

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By 2Brothers3Continents
June 19th 2008

Easy Backpacking

Asia » Thailand

Long Neck Tribe
Women waiving souvenir scarfs.

The first thing we noticed when we crossed the border was the difficulty of the Thai people to speak English. We didn't have any language trouble in Singapore or Malaysia. Communication outside the touristic places was bad. Just after the crossing we spend a few hours walking around the border city trying to find the bus station. If wasn't for an english speaking guy that took us on the back of his pickup truck to the correct place we would still be there asking around and receiving the most weird directions someone can imagine. But the difficulties stop there. After we [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
February 22nd 2008

Feels like home!

Asia » Malaysia

BOH - Best of Highlands
At Cameron Highlands the tea plantations form breathtaking landscapes

Walk from Singapore to Malaysia wasn't near as hard as we imagined. The subway takes you almost all the way to the border and the remaining part is like walking in a nice park. The immigration was also easy, stamp out, cross the causeway and stamp in. No surprises and no visas! Ahhh... South East Asia "I'm Loving it!". We new that South East Asia was a backpacker paradise. But now we are finally understood why. It's so easy to travel here. You don't have to think about anything, there is a travel agency every corner ready to deal with backpackers. [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
February 10th 2008

The land of the Tiger

Asia » Singapore

Temple
Beautiful temple connecting the ancient and the modern

It's amazing how you can get used to situations that you thought impossible to handle before. Was like this with the dirt in India, after our third month we couldn't almost even see it anymore, becomes part of you. This is broken only when you change situation. And what a change!! From a country with piles of garbage and sewage everywhere to a country that bubble gum is forbidden because the street cleaners had a hard time to clean it. Even the visa regulations state that individuals "hippie looking" are not allowed into Singapore. (The airline didn't want us to board [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
January 3rd 2008

Sacred Sex, Holly cow

Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

Ganesh
the half elefant half human god, once is broken (it's trunk and belly) can't be venerated

Reading the book "11 minutes" from Paulo Coelho, there is a passage where the protagonist and her husband-to-be (shit, I shouldn't tell the end) come up with a discussion about sacred sex. They mention about times, in ancient Greece or Rome, where sex was treated as sacred. Religious rituals included sex, even girls, to be able to get married, had to make sex with a stranger before the marriage (I would like to be the stranger, not the husband... hehehe). Paulo Coelho stimulated our imagination. How would be to be in a country were this was still reality? India was high [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
November 12th 2007

Monks, Mountains, Meditation and Relaxing Massages

Asia » Nepal

Prayer flags
Hangging from the top of a temple, the wind spread the prayers printed on the flags

After recovering from the altitude sickness from the Tibetan plateau, we arrived in Kathmandu. Nepal offers you many outdoor activities. From 10 seconds bungee jumping, 9 days rafting to 30 day hiking and so on. Is as the Lonely Planet says, backpackers Disneyland. Many of the activities can be done by yourself, without any guide or tour. For the famous Annapurna circuit just take your bag and start walking! Although we could have done all this fantastic activities, we were to lazy to leave the hotel except for a few visits to the supermarket or to the internet, and this way [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
October 29th 2007

Om mani padme hum

Asia » China » Tibet

Tibetean woman
I love their red cheeks

A bit sooner in China than planned (yes, our first early arrival!!!). The reason was to escape the cold winter in Nepal and Tibet. If we went for two months in India before Nepal and Tibet, it would be winter time by then. So India was postponed to December. It is a big loop but for sure it is worth. The Khunjerab pass mark the border between Pakistan and China. With an altitude of 4733 meters is the highest border crossing on the planet. It’s full of ice and freezing cold, and of course, our bus had to break right on [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
October 28th 2007

The two men bus

Asia » China

During our trip we meet many great people. Sometimes we not just meet but also manage to travel together. Rick and Forrest are great example of this. These Alaskan are father and son. We met them in Pakistan and ended up traveling Tibet together. Here is a text Forrest wrote us after we split in Nepal. Forrest, thanks for the text! Safe trips! Claudio and Fernando "We met Fernando, Claudio, and Lily, in Karimabad, Pakistan. My father, Rick, and I had spent a couple of nights in the Old Hunza Inn already, and were accustomed to "communal dinners" which were, at [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
October 7th 2007

Lost Kingdom of Shangri la

Asia » Pakistan

Karakoran Hiway
A flat part of the Pakistan-China route

Following the Caravanserais distributed all across Iran we arrived in the Pakistani border. The scenery didn't change much from one country to the other in the border. The desert remained the same, only the nice Iranian roads and buses where gone. The advertised luxury, express, air con bus was a 50 years old Chinese bus with 2 engines, one to run the bus and the other for the air-con. The road was single lane, used both to come and go. So during the trip our sport was to bet who would have to jump out of the road that time, us [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
September 10th 2007

Terrorists? Only in G. Bush's dreams.

Middle East » Iran

Iman's mosque in close up
This is one of the most beautifull mosque we visited so far. The tile work is fantastic.

Forget about everything you have heard or read about Iran. It's probably wrong. The media is not objective and never gives a full scenario about it. People listening to the media just get more and more scared about all the Iranians, which are described as terrorists and religious fundamentalists. Although their government tries to impose a strict religious conduct in the country, the reality there is different. In respect to religion, Iranians are much more relaxed than in the Arab/Islamic countries. The government actions don’t match at all with what people think and their behavior. For example, the Shilaba is enforced [View Full Entry]

By 2Brothers3Continents
August 20th 2007

Artificial World

Middle East » United Arab Emirates

Burj al Arab
The famous hotel and the Venice canals

There is a few ways to describe the Emirates. Can be Arab Disney, the new Las Vegas, or anything else that would indicate a place with lots of money invested to create an artificial environment. I'm not saying it's not beautiful, is only artificial!! After getting lots of trouble to get the visa, we discovered that the incredible advanced E-visa could be only used at the airport. This made us take a plane to cover a distance under 300 km from Muscat to Dubai. I love technology, but sometimes.... Our stay in the Emirates was basically in Abu Dhabi, sitting on [View Full Entry]