Blogs from Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America - page 27

Greeting friends, family & co-workers I am finally checking in after 1 week in Argentina & Brazil. This past week has been very eventful. Lets start at the beginning. Left LA on the 14th & arrived in Buenos Aires (BA) the 15th. The flight was bad as the seats seem to be getting smaller. My legs were touching the seat in front the whole time. Needless to say, the sleeping pills really helped deal with that issue. I arrived in BA and went straight to www.Palermohouse.com. It is a small hostel in Palermo right next to all the most fantastic rows of restaurants and night life. The room was fine but overall, the hostel was loud so sleep was hard to come by. The first day, I mostly napped as the sleep during the flight was ... read more

Hello again! and so soon after you´d just finished reading the last one, anyone would think that we are sat in an internet cafe on our last day in Rio cramming as opposed to enjoying the sights! Anyway, we have both been blown away by Rio. Janice and I have agreed that this is another of those cities that we could live in were we given the chance. Everything about the city is captivating, from Christ the Redeemer watching over your every move and the spectacular beach front location to the Favelas and football culture. We decided to stay in Copacabana in a lively but nice enough hostel just a stones throw from the beach. We visited Christ in all his majesty on the Corcovado (the name of the hill he stands on) and the views ... read more

G'day, Well here we are, another day, another city, another country. We've just arrived in LaPaz, capital of Bolivia and are sitting at 3660m above sea level, which is over twice as high as Mount Hotham for those Aussies reading this. In the past few weeks since leaving Argentina and Iguazu we've covered some serious territory traveling from Florianopolis on the coast in southern Brasil, north to Rio de Janerio, east inland to the Pantanal, across the border to Santa Cruz and Potosi in Bolivia, before turning north again and heading to Uyuni on the Altiplano and ending up here in LaPaz. We arrived in Florianopolis which is situated on the Ilha de Santa Catarina and is basically a long island with many small towns scattered along it's 52km length of Atlantic Ocean beach front. The ... read more

So i was up early for the favella tour and it turned out that bed bugs had entre´s, brekkie,dinner,lunch,super and light snacking on me during the night as my back and smaller areas were covered in bites, the most expensive hostel of my trip so far and i get eaten by bed bugs.....lol. So i went downstairs and complained and i was moved to another room, got a free meal and two drinks and i was told id get money back for my last night, so it itchs like hell and not pleasant but well it has an upside and they washed my clothes and fumigated my bags too, so it saved money on washing....lol. You have to laugh at this things otherwise id be crying....lol, so the bus turned for our favella tour and it ... read more

So i got up and some of the guys from last night are heading to Ill Grande today however its 70 reals just to get there and then get accomodation and i have already paid an arm a leg for my nights here, so im just going to do Rio......they have a decent brekkie here which is a suprise and i met up with an Irish fella and an Aussie girl and we are considering doing the christ redeemer today. So i hung out with colin an irish guy and scott a canadian and we decided to go to the christ remdemer and it was 36 reals for the elctric train including the entry fee and so we did the trian and it was a fair day and we got up and it was misty but ... read more