An excellent sea food dinner

Ilha Grande

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January 14th 2009
I travelled to Ilha Grande with an English guy called Rob that i´d met in my hostel in Rio. We took a bus to the coastal town Angra dos Reis then got a boat to the island. Ilha Grande is the 3rd largest island in Brazil and has around 3000 inhabitants. There used to be a prison on the island and apparantly, when the prison closed down none of the policemen that worked there wanted to leave the ... read more

South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more