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By Leena
October 7th 2008

Cobacabana!

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Terppa! Terveisia Cobacabanalta! Lamminta on ollut, tosin tanaan tuli vetta mutta lampotila pysyy kylla koko ajan kahenkympin ylapuolella. Riosta 17% on sademetsaa ja se nakyy ja tuntuu...Lento oli suht uuvuttava, kun kone oli myohassa "teknisen vian" vuoksi ja kun oltiin jo koneessa tuli viela joku uus korjausoperaatio. Se kone oli muutenkin ihan tajuton jumbo, kakskerroksinen sellane. Meian paikat oli tokas kerroksessa, ihan siistii mut nain lentopelkosena aika kuumottavaa, ainaki se lahto.. Ollaan koluttu ja baari kaupunkiosa (Lapa), hippi market, Ipanema ja Cobacabana rannat etc. [View Full Entry]

By shinners
October 6th 2008

Delayed Start to Blog

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Sao Paulo

Well I said Id start one of these things but never got around to it until now!I have an awful habit of forgetting things so hopefully this will keep my memories! So Ive been gone 10 days already and so much has happened already!Its like Ive already forgotten what my life was like before! Righteo a quick recap of what I can remember.... 26th of September we left Dublin and flew threw London to Sao Paulo.The flight to Sao Paulo was horrible and I was separated between 2 idiots for the entire 11 hour flight.Got off the plane to cankles coz [View Full Entry]

By Ann Marie Orla and Katherine
October 5th 2008

Ilha Grande...paradise!

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We arrived in Ilha Grande on thursday night just as the sun was setting. It was the nicest sunset I have ever seen!! The sky was so red as the sun set over the mountain backround of Rio De Janeiro.....v.romantic!!! We went on a 2 and half hour trek through rainforest to get to one of the nicest beaches called Lopez Mendes. It was a tough trek uphill through the mountains but so worth it when we found deserted beaches and clear blue sea...good times! Beanie fell on route and twisted her ankle....bad times! We hit the town on Friday night [View Full Entry]

By Ann Marie Orla and Katherine
October 1st 2008

Rio Baby !!!!!!!!!

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Hi All Well we finaally made it after a pretty uneventful flight, no major delays. Checked into hotel about 11pm amd then hit the beach, which is about 50 ft from the hotel door. The beach is amasing, loads of tanned, tiny bikini wearing and speedo wearing people soaking up the sun. Theres is so many people playing FUTEBALL, from 5 year olds to 70 year olds, yu could spend all day just watching them. . Copacabana beach is a really busy area and pretty safe, but if you venture a few streets backwards you can feel it getting more unsafe [View Full Entry]

By talegao
September 28th 2008

Angra dos Reis eta Ilha Grande

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Way to Angra dos Reis
Autobusetik ataratako argazki bat Angra dos Reisera bidien Photo taken from the bus in the way to Angra dos Reis

Rio de Janeiroko Rodoviarian OVNIbus bat hartu eta gero, Angra dos Reisera juen ginen, Rio de Janeiro estatuko herri kostero bat: tipo Trintxerpe baina trikitixie forró musikiaz kanbixaute eta ezpatadantza kapoeirakin kanbixaute, Tom Waitsen lehengusu brazileiruek ritmue ipinten zauelarik. Afalostien portuko banko baten jarri ginen zerbeza lata pare batekin eta onduen 17 urte inguruko kuadrila bat musikie joten hasi zien, forró: gitarra bi, triangulo bat eta kaja-bonbo batekin, anbiente oso guapue. Ni berotu in nintzen eta halako baten eskatu notsan gitarrie eta jo nabezan eurekin kanta par [View Full Entry]

By Shmunkie and the small ginger one
September 28th 2008

Panicy Party People

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Central Salvador

As Brazil rocks to the Samba beat, Rio, its party capital is alive with rythm and heat. Actually it´s quiet muggy and overcast at the moment, but you get the point. The spirtual home of the party, Rio is the place for the young, the attractive, the rich and for the next 5 days us. Well at least that´s the dream. A dream that as you trawl up the Avenida Atlantica with the pristine Copacabana beach streaching out into the suprisingly clean and inviting waters is all too believable. A land of milk, honey and a/c supermarkets (It´s weird the things [View Full Entry]

African Drumming as seen from our balcony - too fast to focus

By ramblinman1985
September 26th 2008

Her name was Lola!

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frolicking on copacabana!

26th September Bus to Rio = Hell! 27 hours! Arrived in Bamboo Rio Hostel around 22.00. Wasnt fit for much that night, few beers and bed time! 27th Sept Booked Flights to Campo Grande! (We´re over buses for a while!) And wandered around Copacabana, really cool area, lots going on. Prefer it to Buesos Aires straight away. That evening we headed to Flamengo Vs Sport at the maracana! Raining heavily but we had sheltered seats, flamengo down 1-0 most of the game (Even with ex man utd. superstar kleberson playing for them!) but around 80 Mins gooooal Flamengo! And on the [View Full Entry]

By talegao
September 26th 2008

Rio de Janeiro

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Rua de Lapa
Lapa, Rioko parterik guapuena. Da tipo San Fran a lo grande. Oso gente ona. Streets of Lapa. The nicest neiborhood of Rio. Nice people and nice ambient.

Ezin dozue imaginau zelako frenetikue dan Rio... Zarata pillo bat kalien, eta bidetik topetan dozuzen kotxe, autobus eta motor guztixek zaldi indomabliek emoten dabiez. Tope Need for Speed!!!! Mori, hau zuretzeko modukue da... Heldu ginen astelehen baten, eta Roberto deitzen zan taxista miope batek Lapan itxi zozkun, Brazil Hostelen albuen. Hor pasau genduzan gure lehengoko 5 gabak. Hurrengo egunetan gauza asko ein genduzen: Lelengo egunien juen ginen de paseo Flamengo Beach-etik eta han topau ginun portu bat, turistentzeko barkuekaz beterik. Hor ein gendun gure lelengo lagune: Anton [View Full Entry]

By Adam and Dais
September 21st 2008

Rain in Rio

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Sugarloaf from the Christ

Hello everyone, we have just arrived in Campo Grande after spending the week in Rio so its about time to give an update on how things have gone so far.... We last updated the blog whilst on Ilha do Mel, which we left as the weather turned pretty nasty, and unfortunately stayed that way in southern Brazil for a week. As we are in the tail end of Brazilian winter it is quite common to be wet, but the rain seemed to follow us up the coast. We headed back to Curitiba on the mainland which was very difficult as the [View Full Entry]

By diegocastro
September 20th 2008

Primeiros passos

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O desejo de pegar um carro e viajar sozinho pela América já me acompanhava há certo tempo. Ainda criança, eu não conseguia entender com alguém poderia fazer 18 anos e não sair viajando de carro por aí. Logicamente uma criança não entende o custo financeiro de uma viagem, tampouco os empecilhos de tempo que surgem na vida. Autores que escreviam sobre viagens, como Bukowski e Kerouac, além das viagens de Che Guevara, tiveram forte influência sobre mim. Quando conheci o pai do meu sobrinho, o miserável holandês Leon, suas histórias de viagens me pareciam a melhor coisa do mundo, pois, como [View Full Entry]

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