Rio de Janeiro is a fantastic city with much to boast about, the famous Copacabana beach, the largest carnival in the world, Christ the Redeemer a new wonder of the world, just to name a few that generically spring to mind. Ranted and raved about by tourists, adored by locals and lets not forget the…
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Poorly Petropolis
After our exploits at Rio De Janeiro’s famous carnival we were in need of some major down time and relaxation. We used our trusty lonely planet guide, various blog posts and other online information and decided to head to Petropolis, just a short hop a few hours north before heading off inland to explore more…
Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro is famous worldwide and it is also where we decided to dedicate the majority of our time here in Brazil, specifically we made a massive detour within our travel route so we could tick ‘Rio carnival’ off the bucket list. After 7 nights in one location it begins to feel normal and…
Paraty…no we haven’t mis-spelt party!
Continuously people back home were mistaking the spelling of this luscious Brazilian town, and thinking we were repeatedly at a party and our iPhones were just coming up with even more bizarre auto correct offers than usual. In contrast to their images of us attending multiple pre carnival raves somewhere in the country, we were…
São Paulo
Our first stop in Brazil was the continents biggest metropolis.. São Paulo. We landed the day before Jonny’s 24th birthday and for that reason we had booked a nice hotel before even leaving the UK for our three days here. Quickly collecting our baggage we headed out into the sun – oh no, sorry wait,…
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