Carnival in Rio De Janeiro Celebrating Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is on just about every “must experience before you die” list we have come across. We thought, spend a week in a beautiful city with warm weather, sandy beaches, music, dancing, singing, drinking, and fun COSTUMES, why not? Rio de Janeiro’s world famous Carnival…
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Paraty With Brazil’s extreme heat still up, we decided to beach hop our way from Sao Paulo to Rio, stopping in Paraty and Ilha Grande. Paraty is a small town on a peninsula backed by jungled mountains on Brazil’s Costa Verde, between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Its Portuguese colonial center has cobbled streets…
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Sushi all around us. Sao Paulo has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan, and so, the sushi is plentiful, inexpensive, and fresh. We spent a couple of days in Sao Paulo, exploring a small fraction of the enormous city while eating sushi. We were a bit overwhelmed with the size of the city. São…
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Chapada Diamantina and Lencois From Salavdor we took a 3 day side trip to Lencois and the national park, the Chapada Diamantina. After a 7h bus ride we arrived in Lencois, an old diamond mining town and the main gateway to the national park. As we did not reserve a hostel in Lencois, once…
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After Brasilia, we flew east to Salvador. Salvador is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. With 2.9 million people (2013), it is the largest city proper in the Northeast Region and the 3rd-largest city proper in the country, after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Bahia is the Afro-Brazilian capitol and Salvador is…
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After a very stressful week, selling the car, moving out of our apartment, putting all the furniture in storage, and getting the last gear for our trip, the big day was here. On January 14, 2016, we left San Diego (our jobs and friends) and boarded a plane to Brasilia, Brazil which was to be…
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