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By matthewlees
May 22nd 2007
May 22nd 2007
Ihla Grande day(s) out
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
Seems like a while since i did one of these, however here goes... Ended up heading to an island down south to learn some scuba-skills, which involved (or so we thought) getting on a bus outside our hostel, and everything beign sorted out for us. Not the case when the entirely useless man working in the hostel doens't actually book anything, and keeps telling you it will all be fine. Well, daniel, it won't be. idiot. Turns out that the bus we'd smugly been telling a couple of swedes that we were going to get came and picked them up, but [View Full Entry]
By Alice Wilson
May 20th 2007
May 20th 2007
weekend on the big island
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
It was such a lovely weekend, everything seemed to fall into place. We had decieded to camp as there are some great campsites on the island. Although according to greg, if we had more time we would be on the other side of the island where there is real camping in the wild and now human infurstructure, next time! So with camp gear in toe we headed for the island. Once arriving at the Island a bit cloudy and well with our luck we rented a little apartment for the weekend that was almost the same price as camping. So there [View Full Entry]
Alice Wilson - Alice Wilson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=160944] | 2007-08-07 22:42:55
By MRJ SthAmericanAdventures
May 16th 2007
May 16th 2007
Ilhe Grande
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
After days of dreaming about lazing about on an island I finally arrive in Ilhe Grande, an island not far of the coast of Brazil. After another breathtaking bus ride from Paraty to the port town of Angra dos Reis I jump onto a boat that takes me to the island. I have been told to head left on the beach all the way until you find a couple of hostels right on the water front. This is what I do and find exactly what I am looking for, beach front about 5m from the buildings, hammocks and a great [View Full Entry]
MRJ SthAmericanAdventures - Jane Kennedy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 10 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=161531] | 2007-05-16 00:00:00
We caught our final overnight bus up to Rio and it was a lot nicer than the previous one thank god! With just under 2 weeks left till heading home we thought we would spend a few days chilling out on Ihla Grande .. I had heard a lot of cool things about it from various people in Argentina who had travelled down through Brasil and it seemed like a good place to relax on beaches and do some jungle trekking. So we arrived in Rio bus station in the early hours of the morning, and after asking at about [View Full Entry]
theKirton - Matt Kirton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 16 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=159870] | 2007-05-12 00:00:00
By Lia and Ryan
April 28th 2007
April 28th 2007
More Beautiful Brazil Beach Action
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
We had a fantastic time in Rio, but after spending the good part of a week lying on the beach each day, we decided to head North to Salvador to check out some rainforests and old towns. We made it to the bus station with the full intention of heading North. 15 minutes later, we were heading South... to MORE beaches! Paraty and Ilha Grande. 2 popular beach locations, each with something different to offer. It worked out a lot cheaper, less travel, and we could spend more time seeing the sights then sitting on a bus. And we got [View Full Entry]
Lia and Ryan - Lia and Ryan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 10 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=153327] | 2007-04-28 00:00:00
By GI_Jo
April 12th 2007
April 12th 2007
Beautiful: now that is what I am talking about
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
Went to the island and it was great. Juan lent me his second camera which was actually a pentax so easy to use. Day One A great boat ride and swimming off the boat around the island. BBQ on the boat and caprihenkiaÂīs (a drink with limes, a vodka type alcohol). Juan made us get flippers before we got on the boat in the morning cos they didn~t have them on board. Then we travelled to the swimming spot and discovered that there were only four masks and one snorkel to share between 25 people. We had these floating long pole [View Full Entry]
GI_Jo - Joanne | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=149713] | 2007-04-12 00:00:00
By Sam and Sam
April 10th 2007
April 10th 2007
Ilha Grande & Paraty
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
We arrived at Ilha Grande approximately at 7pm after leaving Cococapana early that morning. A journey that was only supposed to take 5 hours ended up taking 9. The bus driver in Rio decided he was hungry and stopped for food with a bus load of people. This made us miss our connection bus which made us miss the last public boat. We finally found a private boat to Ilha Grande but had to pay more money. We reached the port in the dark and was told the hostel we had booked was right at the end of the beach. The [View Full Entry]
Sam and Sam - Sam Jarvis & Sam Dillimore | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=151225] | 2007-08-06 15:35:15
Now we have been in Brazil for almost a week and its great!! Rio was such a wonderful city and I didnt feel unsafe at all. But then I didnt bring anything more than what I was planning on using that moment either. We stayed in Ipanema which is one of the nicer beaches in Rio. Much nicer than Copacabana, which does feel a bit dodgy at some points. Our hostel was really cute and just a road in from the beach, but we didnt go a lot to the beach anyway cause it so many things that we wanted to [View Full Entry]
rosannamaria - Rosanna Nordrup | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=142227] | 2007-03-26 00:00:00
By Matt The Pig
March 8th 2007
March 8th 2007
Ilha Grande; A Touch Of Paradise.
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
Thursday 1st March to Sunday 4th March, 2007. Having spent the night in the hot and sticky confines of Harmonia I finally managed to free myself from Rioīs shackles and escape, but only just. Having woken at 8.30 I was still waiting for my brain to start functioning properly when at 11.15 I sprang to life, took a cab to the bus station, bought a ticket to Angra Dos Reis a port town two and a half hours to the south of Rio and five minutes later was on my way. In transit I still couldnīt believe Iīd finally got out, [View Full Entry]
Matt The Pig - Matt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 17 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=136217] | 2007-03-09 18:47:06
By Em and Ben
March 7th 2007
March 7th 2007
Carnival craziness
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande
Ok so I arrived a couple of weeks ago in Rio for Carnivale. After an interesting flight on the dodgiest airline ever seriously we were all very scared after the take off was so wobbly. No movie was shown the whole way AND we had a crazy drunk man keeping the whole plane awake! He stunk of rum and was walking up and down the plane talking a the top of his voice to everyone and being quite rude. All the passengers were getting really pissed off. Someone told him to shut up and he threatened to smash them. Then Swanny [View Full Entry]
Em and Ben - Out of Oz Adventures | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=135951] | 2007-08-10 23:39:21