Blogs from Brazil, South America - page 643

Up early this morning... ignoring the bottom situation and headed to the Belem markets. Lasted 15 minutes, nearly fainted from the heat and smell and headed back to the hotel. The colonial architecture is fantastic, once again, and there are tress growing out of gutters and drain pipes. Beautiful churches, spices, guarana, bananas, papaya, lots of beans, rice and meals for the cooking. Was wonderful but needed sugar top up. Tottered back... man in business suit walking ahead of me had colour A4 picture of a rather hard cock and wouldn~t let me get past him. Is this the Brazilian version of flashing? Maybe he~s impotent. The gang arrived back at the hotel room with a vast amount of supplies and held a room picnic. Brazilian words don~t end in consonants, so a picnic is pronounced ... read more

Hello, this Jaya writing her first blog entry for Salvador and Brasillia. Salvador is one of the most beautiful cities I have been to, it was the first capital of Brasil and it has a huge African influence which you don't get in the rest of Brasils cities that gives it its rhythm. Its kinda like how you imagine Brasil to be, with beautiful old colonial buildings some restored beautifully others crumbling and dilapidated both existing side by side a good example of Brazilian society in general. We arrived in Salvador just one day after the carnival and the decorations were still up (if you are particularly afraid of Stephen Kings “IT” the movie with the evil clown, Salvadors decoration of huge clowns will be one big nightmare) and there was a general party atmosphere in ... read more

bom noite- we write this from a little town called puerto seguro (meaning safe port) that is north of rio about 1,300 KM. it is a sleepy little town that serves as a jumping off place for the beaches of brazil both north and south. We have had a great time since leaving rio discovering little beach towns and the rigors of bus travel in south america. two nights ago we found ourselves extremely tired after our 19 hr over night journey but managed to blearyly drag ourselves to a beautiful call arrial d´adjuda. This place is absolute paradise. it is up on a bluff over looking bright blue or green ocean which is met by white sandy beaches. the water is like jumping into a warm bath tub. at night we got to experience our ... read more

Hello, this is me suhi writin my very first entire bar the intro, ok so we´re in fortaleza and thou none of us will admit it we are stuck here due 2 major lack of plannin on our part. However i can think of far worse places 2 get stuck in. Ok so we stayed in wat i hav 2 say is one of the best places so far which is a hostel with a beach view. As soon as we walk out of our hostel we get the a turquise beach and it is beautiful. We spend most our days walkin along the beach coz whenever we try 2 find anywhere else its closed. These guys are like on total shut dwn, nothin is open EVER. We´ve also been informed that we´re the only tourists ... read more

Massive episode of claustrophobia last night. Woke up on my top bunk with nose about 2 feet from the roof and decided I couldn~t breathe. Yay!!! Midnight walk and back to bed. Huge brekkie of fruit and eggs and then outside to be immediately tracked down by Johnathom (J-man). Spent morning playing gin-rummy, memory and learning Portugese on the ~lido deck~. Starting to enjoy the siestas and lost half the arvo sleeping! Emerged and was abducted by 10 year old Eliane, my digital camera was adopted by a small group of children who took around 100 photos in 90 minutes, flattened the batteries and screamed with delight, looking back at all the pictures of themselves and the boat. Lounged back and watched the sunset, then had a check of all the gringo passports by the military, ... read more