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Now that the Olympics is under way, Brazil is in everyone’s mind and there’s plenty of stunning shots of Ipanema beach during the Olympics coverage. Combined, this is making me think back to my time travelling in Brazil two years…
Continue readingIguassu Falls sits along the borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay and it’s absolutely massive. We gave ourselves two days to view the waterfall from both Brazil and Argentina (we popped into Paraguay too, but you can’t actually see the…
Continue readingHaving seen a view of Rio during the day we decided to get a nighttime view; which turned out to be far more enjoyable. A sunset view was what we had in mind, but we spent a little too long…
Continue readingWhen planning to visit Rio during the World Cup I always knew it’d be busy. But it was something else when it came to visiting the statue of Christ the Redeemer which looks over Rio and is one of the…
Continue readingIf you mention Lapa to someone in Rio they’ll undoubtedly start talking about the night life there. It’s an area if Rio that’s become famous for its busy bars, street food, and street parties. It also has a couple of…
Continue readingRio’s favelas (slums) are infamous. They’re synonymous with shootings, drug crime, muggings, dirt – pretty much anything bad. Nobody really talks about anything good happening. So why on Earth would we want to go visit one, especially the biggest of…
Continue readingIt took me a while to like Rio, neither of us were impressed straight away. I’m not really sure what I expected, maybe just more or something. More colour, more music, more Rio? The first few days in Rio…
Continue readingWhen we left Paraty we headed for Ilha Grande, another example of Brazil’s stunning coastline. Ilha Grande is even more like paradise than Ilhabela. There’s no vehicles allowed in the island – you get around on foot or by…
Continue readingThe journey by bus from São Paulo to Rio isn’t exactly long (especially when compared to some bus journeys we’ve done!), but we broke it up with a couple of stops along the way. Paraty was one of them. Knowing…
Continue readingThe next day I planned out an itinerary with a little help from Tripadvisor. They’ve got some great daily itineraries but I decided to just pick out a few activities to pull together our own plan. Liberdade Reviews say that…
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