It´s been a while in travel time since the last blog, we have done alot and not so much... It all began with Carnaval. The unfortunate dampner of the rainy weather in Rio, which actually forced my jeans out of my pack (regrettably mind you, I mistook rain for cold) did not take any sort of toll on the celebrations, and celebrate the Brazilians can! Carnaval is like nothing we have ever really experienced before, the city basically shuts down for 5 days so everyone can dress up, get drunk and samba!! So thats what we did. Basically carnaval in Rio is like heaps of street parades all over the city, they have a starting point and an ending point, you can join in any parade (called a ´bloco´), and follow around a truck with a
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