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Bloco Da Lama (Mud People)

March 5, 2009 – 8:15 am | 14 Comments | 0 Read this

We could not resist try­ing that out (and take pic­tures!). We basi­cally fell into the sticky gooey mud pit, and cov­ered our­selves with a thick layer. Yes, it does stink a bit but the mud is quite clean.

Brazilian Carnaval In Paraty (2)

March 3, 2009 – 10:06 am | 11 Comments | 0 Read this

Every night, the Car­ni­val started around 10:00, to fin­ish around sun­rise. Blo­cos all over the place were lead­ing peo­ple in the old town and there were always some drum­mers get­ting ready somewhere.

Brazilian Carnaval In Paraty (1)

March 2, 2009 – 12:54 pm | 10 Comments | 0 Read this

A bloco had gath­ered on Roberto Sil­veira, the main avenue. A trio-eléctrico (huge truck with speak­ers, a sound sys­tem and singers on top of it) was blast­ing cheery brazil­ian music and the drum­mers behind were set­ting up a rope-off area. The truck started mov­ing, the drum­mers started play­ing and we all fol­lowed in the street of Paraty, danc­ing all night long to the sound of the samba of the Carnival.

Colonial Paraty

March 1, 2009 – 9:46 am | 12 Comments | 0 Read this

The owner of the inter­net café was Brazil­ian. He asked us where we would spend the Car­ni­val, and at the time, we were not sure. He told us to check out Paraty, a small city four hours from Rio de Janeiro. We did not know any­thing about it. Yet, we went… and we were not disappointed.

Beach Bumming In Uruguay

February 23, 2009 – 11:11 am | 8 Comments | 0 Read this

Rest­ing on lovely Uruguyan beaches before the big Portuguese-speaking country!

Old Montevideo

February 21, 2009 – 4:51 pm | 9 Comments | 0 Read this

Mon­te­v­ideo was much qui­eter and much smaller than Buenos Aires, but a great place to relax. The city cen­ter, where we stayed, had a lot of colo­nial build­ings, some falling apart, some won­der­fully restored. The sea­side was equally nice: we walked along the shore, look­ing at peo­ple fish­ing and kids play­ing in the water.

Crossing To Uruguay

February 19, 2009 – 5:22 pm | 13 Comments | 0 Read this

Not yet tired of Buenos Aires, its huge steaks and great nigtlife, we nonethe­less decided to travel fur­ther, to Uruguay, a coun­try we had never been to. Mon­te­v­ideo was sup­posed to be a great cap­i­tal, small and safe enough to be trav­eled eas­ily, yet very nice to visit.

Buenos Aires By Night

February 13, 2009 – 6:57 pm | 11 Comments | 0 Read this

We arrived late the first night and we fig­ured we would have to starve until the next day, because noth­ing would be open. Yeah, right… We found an hos­tel in the micro­cen­tro, right by Avenida 9 De Julio (the widest street in the world!) and we barely had to walk ten meters before see­ing bars, food, book­stores, cafés… What a sight!