Blogs from Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America - page 12

Godt nyttår godtfolk! Feliz ano novo! Da var det 1. januar 2011, og vi svetter oss inn i det nye året. Vi har klemt ut det som er, og vel så det, av Larsas Aloe Vera-tube. Urutinerte, solbrente turister som vi er. En rød og varm velkommen til 2011! I går ble dagen tilbragt hovedsaklig på Pão de Açúcar (Sukkertoppen). Det var jo selvfølgelig noe vi måtte få med oss, og vi nøt godt av både utsikt og Caipirinhas der oppe! Dessuten en særdeles luftig gondoltur både opp og ned. Det var vel i kø til denne gondolbanen at vi alle 3 pådro oss solbrenthet, da vi noe urutinert gikk ut døra uten solkrem i verken veske eller lomme. DA har vi lært. Solkrem er herved med. Dagen gikk fort som fy med kø og nyting ... read more

Bon Dia, Our flight left late but we arrived in Rio de Janeiro without any issues and were met by our transfer who waited through our delay to meet us. On the ride through town, we saw some interesting things. On the main overpass from the airport we saw a few cars pulled over to the side. We thought they had been in an accident but it turns out that they had simply stopped to go fishing. From the side of the busy overpass in from the airport. In rush hour. The road started to back up more after that so we took a circuitous route that took us past one of the univeristies in town and its engineering building, which ironically was a pile of rubble. Somebody must have failed their final. We continued through ... read more

Day 4 - Dec 24 - Rio De Janerio: We woke up to a sunny day at the beach today. Had our usual breakfast at our hotel and decided our day's agenda. We can see the Christ the Redeemer statue from our room. It looked like it was very cloudy on the top of the mountain so we decided that we should go to Sugar Loaf today. After confirming it was open, we hopped in a taxi and got over there around 10 minutes to 11:00. Since it was Christmas Eve, they closed early - at 11:00! We were bummed out about it so we made a quick decision to try the Christ the Redeemer (One of the new Seven Wonder of the world) - despite the clounds. When we got there, you couldn't even see ... read more

We made it!!! Feel like we have done so much already so prepare yourself for a long old read!! After an extremely long flight (only slightly delayed by snow) we landed in Rio de Janeiro!! Making our way to a taxi, we were asked by another English girl if she could catch a lift with us. She lives in Rio and is here doing some research for her PhD. Turns out she lived in the red light district of Rio (Gloria) and when the taxi driver stopped in some back alley and they both got out, we both thought that we may have been had and something dodgy was going down!! Luckily this was just us being paranoid and we were not about to be robbed at gunpoint!! Our taxi ride continued to the South Zone ... read more

I haven't written here in ages, because I haven't traveled in ages. But two days ago I returned from a brief vacation I managed to pull off, and here's the story: Six hours before my flight was leaving Copenhagen Airport, I realized my passport was in an impossibly difficult location. Sadly, it was sharing this location with my identification, another essential item for any voyage. You see, I was traveling to South America, Brazil to be exact, Rio de Janeiro to be even more precise, and the only thing that almost every travel page had in common was the advice to bring copies of your ID and passport with you everywhere. Meanwhile your actual documents should lay securely in an expensive hotel room or a safe at a hostel. Ordinarily, I think that sort of precautionary ... read more