Author: The Urban Wanderer
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Favela and Farewell
This post was originally from March 11, 2019 On my last day in Brazil I was lucky enough to visit Rio’s largest favela called Rocinha. Rocinha is a shanty town that is sandwiched between two wealthy areas of Rio. It’s on a mountain overlooking the city and it became really well known after the 2002…
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Rio impresses yet again ~ Copacabana & Carnival
This post was originally from March 9, 2019 Her name was Lola she was a showgirl. With yellow feathers in her hair and her dress cut down to there… Today was all about the Copacabana. We are actually staying in Copacabana and are just minutes away from the beach. There are so many beaches here…
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The Highs of Rio ~ A day in Rio that I will never forget!
This post is originally from March 8, 2019 Today was a pretty spectacular day ~ one of those days that I will never forget! Drum roll please … a bunch of us signed up to go hang gliding!!! I was worried that they wouldn’t let me do it because of my ankle so I was…
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Brazil’s Picture Perfect Pantanal
This post is originally from March 7, 2019 Hey Everyone! Yesterday we left Bonito in a minivan and drove for 5 hours to god knows where?? From there we were picked up by a truck and loaded into the back of it just like cattle. This is where we 4×4’d it deep into the bush…
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Bonito…or Bust?
This post was originally from March 4, 2019 The next leg of our trip has been to a place called Bonito. This was a 12 hour drive from Iguaçu!! Having supposed to leave at 8am we all waited around until well into the afternoon for our bus to pick us up. Not everything runs like…
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The Amazingly Spectacular Iguacu Falls
The last few days have been absolutely incredible!! Yesterday we started out early (4am), where we had to take a 5 hour bus ride to São Paulo and from there an hour and a half flight to Foz de Iguaçu. Once we got to Iguaçu we went straight to the famous Iguaçu Falls. These falls…
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Stunning Outskirts of Paraty – Horseback Riding through the Rainforest ~ Tally HO!
This post was originally written on February 27, 2019 Now that I have given my ankle a good 24 hours since the ‘accident’ it is definitely starting to show how badly I sprained it. Having a golf ball size protrusion, I have to say walking into town is extremely difficult and painful. I’d say just…
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Paraty ~ The Cutest Town/I Fell Down
The post was originally written on February 26, 2019 Hey Everyone! Yesterday we left amazing Ilha Grande and traveled south to Paraty. Paraty is this amazing little Portuguese Colonial town that is surrounded by rainforest covered mountains. It’s right on the sea and the town itself is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The streets in…
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The Paradise Island of Ilha Grande
This post was originally from February 24, 2019 Yesterday we set off to the picture perfect island of Ilha Grande. It started off with a bus ride from Rio down the Atlantic coast to Angra dos Reis. From there we took an hour long ferry to this magnificent island. Ilha Grande used to be a…
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Farewell Búzios and Hollllaaaaaa Rio!
This post was originally from February 23, 2019 The last few days in Búzios have been absolutely fantastic! Búzios is about 150km from Rio. It sits on a peninsula that consists of 23 picturesque beaches. It used to be a tiny fishing village but after Brigitte Bardot made it famous in the 1960’s, it’s now…
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