Brazil - Rio
Football stadium WM 2014
Football stadium WM 2014
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Xmas 2011 in Rio
Typical food from Brazil. Yummy! And here i didn't had to pay per kilo. heheh
Leo thanks for the nice stay and the football match!
Rio has a really nice landscape and for sure the christ to see. When i went there i had bad luck with the weather. I couldn't see the christ while blue sky. Anyway the view was just awesome. At the Chris i met Rebecca and her Family. she were offer me help and we stayed the whole time together at the christ. For me something i remember well as this is something i would always hope it happens to me. Thanks Rebecca for the time you spend with me. In Rio i stayed the whole time at a couch surfing place from Leo. Thanks man that i could stay that long. I remember Acai :-) At the beginning of my Brazil tour i was eating a brown/red sauce which wasn't taste after anything. Leo explained my that this comes from a fruit and with a lot of sugar its really delicious. If you go to Rio you should go out to lapa which is the party mile like Dusseldorf in Germany :-) . In rio i went for an Russian music concert with some couch surfers. Hehe i like this kind of music and it was really nice to see a samba dancing folk while dancing to this kind of music. In Lapa you should also go out to dance to reggaeton which is crazy especially when you will see how the girls are dancing to it. I just say all is moving :-) . As the landscape is so nice you should spend some days to hike sugar love and ... from there you'll be able to see all nice spots. Brazil is proud about there football so i went up to see the famous stadium in town ..... Its about to be renovated for the world cub 2014. For sure afterwards i had so see a football match to make me an own picture about the differences to the German football. Together with Leo i went to the stadium reachable via train that's most of the time really packed :-). We saw the match between fasco vs banfield. Hmm even that are big and good teams i found the match not special there i prefer matches of my club FC Bayern Muenchen. Copacabana is not that much beautiful i was just felling its famous but to packed for sure with a lot of lady not wearing much dress :-) . From Rio i took the bus to Porto Alegre 28h where i changed to the air plane to fly via Uruguay to buenos aires. In Uruguay we had nomally to change the airplane but they decided to continue the flight to ba. The offer me to keep seated till all passenger from Montevideo to buenos aires entered. That was funny as i could see all those things they are doing before take off e.g. cleaning of the seats :-) or hoover the floor.
Ilha Grande is nice for vacation :-) Actually that time i did realize that my tour is more than a vacation as i was already 5weeks on tour. If you plan to go there please don't take the catamaran as i did. Those one cost you 25 bugs instead of 6 with a normal boat. ARRRRR. Before going there make sure you have enough cash with you as just some few places accept credit cards and you'll not find any ATM. The island it the perfect place for nice hikes to silent beaches but don't hike with flip flops because of snakes and bumpy tracks. As my ex girlfriend knows i was always trying to spot a snake in Namibia or South Africa :-) . A German couple i met here which has done a world tour some years before have seen a big snake while crossing the hiking track. Dammit that i didn't had the chance
@Sabrina: Still no chance for an anaconda but when i am going to Bolivia i try my best to find one for you might be as birthday present.
Use the chance to enjoy some coconut water and maracuja sucos as there are so nice there. The place is the perfect one to be lazy what i did. I just went out once by kayak to do some small exercising but i end up on a sailing boat. I ask them to take a picture of me and they invite me on their boat for an campari and nice fish dish. Just awesome as we could speak a lot as i couldn't speak portuguese and they didn't understood english but anyway they was so nice to me that at the end i was almost drunken from the campari they didn't wanted to stop giving me :-)
If you plan to visit those island don't miss lopes mendes beach. They telling that this is the nice's beach from Brazil. Also don't skip t1 trail which is a small loop for beginners but you should combine with the walk to the small waterfall as i did. I love waterfalls that's why i still plan to go to the iguazu falls between Brazil,Argentina and Paraguay.
If you plan to go to rio after ilha grande as i did you should spend the little more money just 5€ more to go by one of this express shuttles which include the transfer to another island(forgot the name) as well bus shuttle with door to door service.
I spend one week there which makes definitely sense to relax and to enjoy sunbathing. While listen my music >>>king of leons