Brazil Travel Blogs

My mom and I were on separate flights back to the US, so she boarded a flight to Dallas while I waited for my flight to Miami. The CCS house manager in Salvador told me there were medical centers at all of the airports in Brazil where I could possibly get my third vaccination. I had to get it o…

I'm aware I can't say I visited Sao Paulo, because I didn't even leave the airport. But at least I put my feet outside the airport, hahaha. My boss wanted to smoke and because it's forbidden doing it inside the buildings, we had to step outside ;) After almost 3hrs flying, we arrived to Sao Paulo.…

No words other than amazing

Capybara are the world's largest living rodent. Sounds like a great pet eh?? They are related to guinea pig and they apparently make good pets so when Simon spied a group of capybara near the waters edge, we gave chase! This was not easy. Capybaras are excellent swimmers and can stay underwater …

  Remarkable Rio de Janeiro - Enjoy Backdrop, Beaches & Beauties   Below is a poem written by Sonia Paz Baron-Vine in 2006 about the remarkable city of Rio de Janeiro. It captures some of the beauty, sounds, nature and magic of this one-of-a-kind place.   Dawn in R…

Amazone jungle of Brasil

KERRY - After another night bus journey we arrived in Floripa (as the locals call it) at about 9am. I was planning on meeting a couple of my old work friends from the BMA, here for dinner, but little did i expect the warm hospitality that we received! I was about to get my bags together and look …

Leaving central Rio by bike is easy. Some 20 km of biketracks along beach after beach through hightly guarded luxuy neighborghoods. As the beach gets more natural and the steep cliffs almost touch the sea it is like riding through a festival with people enjoying sun, music and beer everywhere.…

So excluding airfare to and from the north, i've set aside roughly R$7000 for the trip (according to my most recent calculations); somewhere between US$3k-4k, toward the lower end of the spectrum.given that i'm going to be travelling during the high season, new years in a party town, and carnival a…

The trip started with a drive down to Heathrow. Thinking we had plenty time to get there we set off at midnight. Little did we know that there was road works for the majority of the way! Having arrived at the airport, we met up with Craig who was coming with us, as they called out the flight number…

i was invited to celebrate chrismas with the families of my friends, so i headed back to sao paulo, but this time i stayed at a hostel, because my friends went to curitiba, like the moment i came from there, well nevermind the HI hostel praca das arvores was just round the corner of my friends …

Cool and rainy day kept me from enjoying one final beach day in Rio.  That is ok, because in a few days i will be in the Greek isles. Took a bus to the airport from a street close to the hostel.  This was actually kind of difficult, because the buses came at you pretty fast, and if you d…

my trip to Brasil

Hey guys, well this is going to be a biggie as the internet is fairly expensive here (for sth america standards) and i havnt had a chance to knock up afew entries so this will be 4 in 1 account of my time but woweee what a place Florianopolis is so lets go back to the beginning after this short ann…

I put this entry off too long and now I cant remember the details.  We went snorkelling down a river that was really clear and Pokey was born.