 | Cristo Redentor, Corcovado
2007-05-23, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: adsdan | | We woke up to a rainy day, but we were determined to make the bus ride to Cristo, the famous monument of Christ at the top of Mount Corcovado.
The bus ride took about an hour. At the base, we caugh... |
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 | Final Day
2007-05-21, Villa Velha, Brazil. By: adsdan | | Today was our last day at Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Vitoria with Dan´s family. We woke up early to make the most of the day. After breakfast we headed down to the beach, a 5 minute walk from the apa... |
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 | Sightseeing in Vila Velha
2007-05-19, Vila Velha, Brazil. By: adsdan | | It was great to sleep on a comfortable bed. We slept in after being up half the night catching up with Dan´s family. The conversations were
a mix of Portuguese, Itlalian and English (with some span... |
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 | Arriving in Vila Velha
2007-05-18, Vila Velha, Brazil. By: adsdan | | Today ws another long day at the airport. Our flight was supposed to arrive at 6.10pm however it was delayed at Foz Do Iguacu as a bird flew into the plane´s right engine!! We didn´t arrive at Vila Ve... |
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 | Departing for Vitoria...we thought
2007-05-17, Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. By: adsdan | | Arriving at the airport and after checking in for our flight to Vitoria (via Sao Paulo), we came to the realisation that there were no planes landing or departing. The airport was closed due to bad we... |
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 | Iguacu Falls, Brazil
2007-05-15, Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. By: adsdan | | We arrived from Buenos Aires safely. The waterfalls are situated between the countries of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Tours are conducted on both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides. The Iguassu N... |
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 | When my baby goes to Rio....
2007-05-02, Rio, Brazil. By: ezza | | Well Dan, Ben and I have finally made it to Rio! (Dan and I cant help but to sing the ¨ When my baby goes to Rio.....¨ song.)
After the tour finished in La Paz, Bolivia, we stayed a few extra days ... |
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 | Iguacu Falls
2007-03-20, Foz do Iguacu/Peurto Iguazu, Brazil. By: danhayes | | After a long distance bus ride from Rio, Foz do Iguacu was perhaps a little disappointing, I had previously heard the brazilian side of the border was sketchy, and it really was, but still managed to ... |
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| A brief summary of Rio
2007-03-18, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: danhayes | | Ok, after 6 weeks of being in Rio de Janeiro, I finally decide to write a journal page, also which happens to be the day I leave... Better late then never. When I arrived Rio was definitly everything ... |
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 | Leather, leather, leather.
2006-03-04, sao paulo, Brazil. By: m3ng89 | | I finally got to see all the action behind my Mother's business! We traveled to 12 places all across Brazil in 11 days - it was exhausting but amazing. |
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 | Salvador
2007-02-12, Salvador, Brazil. By: lindy | | Well here we are, we´re in Salvador. We arrived a few days ago at 5am and then spent about 5 hours searching for appartments. I had to tag along because I was the translator. Try translating broken s... |
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| Trance Beach Party
2007-02-07, Aixla del Juda, Brazil. By: lindy | | Life is still amazing of course. We went swimming all day and then went out to eat at some pizza place. Afterwards we took a quick nap until 2am and then we headed out to the trance party! We took a ... |
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| broken busses and beaches
2007-02-06, Some island, somewhere, Brazil. By: lindy | | Rio is crazy and insane and i had so much fun. the first night we got there we went to a capoeira show in a favela (slum) it started raining and we ended up laughing and running through dirty dirty f... |
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 | I love Rio
2007-02-03, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: lindy | | Brazil is amazing! There is so much culture and it´s crazy. Last night we went to a capoeira show in a slum. After the show it started raining so we had to run through the rain and through these cra... |
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 | one between four
2007-01-17, Foz de Iguazu, Brazil. By: vorn | | went from the pan to dorados and probably the best establishment we will stay in on the whole trip, an actual hotel. nice. great spread for brekfast and then took a ride in the baggage trolley and wen... |
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 | hangin in the pan
2007-01-14, Pantanal, Brazil. By: vorn | | the pantanal is a huge wetland which is the equivalent of some percentage of france i am told and stretches across a fair bit of brazil, bolivia and paraguay. we stayed three days at a ramshackle ranc... |
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 | big yellow truck
2007-01-10, Bonito, Brazil. By: vorn | | spent 3 days driving inland to bonito, heaps of islands off the coast and inland everything is just green-rainforest and paddocks. grass next to the side of the road does not seem to be cut much so so... |
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 | No
2007-01-06, Paraty, Brazil. By: vorn | | First stop on the tour was down to Paraty. Great little old city with cobbled street and monsoon rains which force you into drinking establishments against your will just so you dont drown walking dow... |
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 | JC MIA
2007-01-04, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: vorn | | Dissapearing act dot com. Not real happy with themain man right now.
Was in Rio for four days and only saw blue sky and the sun when we were leaving on the Oasis tour this morning; JC also happened t... |
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| DVT+NYE
2007-01-01, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: vorn | | Had a 3hr delay in Melbourne because apparently all the air conditioners on the plane decided it was time to move on, so my would be boring 5hr stop over in LA consisted solely of standing in lines an... |
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 | Postcard from Rio...Day 3
2004-11-18, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: rbirse | | [b]Day Three[/b]
During the 1st season of the Amazing Race we watched two old girls hang gliding from the mountain tops of Rio down to the beach. If they can do it at 60+ years of age so can we!
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 | Postcards from Rio…Days 1 & 2
2004-11-16, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: rbirse | | [b]Day 1[/b] – We left home in Texas and headed off to Rio de Janeiro courtesy of American Airlines via Miami, the gateway to South America.
Thanks to a good few hours sleep on board (a rare thing ... |
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 | On the Copa-copa-cab-annnnnnnn-a.....
2006-10-31, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: lyndz | | ....last night, under the moon, with the waves lapping against the shore, Iain got down on one knee in the sand, and....... ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM!
ARGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Of ... |
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