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  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 104

    Rio de Janeiro - Pão de Açúcar

    December 8, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    Sugarloaf Mountain is "the" peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, rising 396 meters above the harbor. Its name is said to refer to its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar. It is known worldwide for its cableway and panoramic view almost all over the city.Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 104

    Rio de Janeiro

    December 8, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    Rio de Janeiro - our last destination before heading back home. We'll enjoy our last two weeks in this amazing city by soaking up the sun, swimming in the sea, sightseeing and having some drinks at the beach.

    Rio de Janeiro is after São Paulo the second largest city of Brazil. It is known for its natural settings, Carnival, Samba and beautiful beaches such as Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon. In addition, some of the most famous landmarks including the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer, the Sugarloaf Mountain and Maracanã Stadium (one of the world's largest football stadiums) take place in this amazing city.

    Here some tips for future visitors:
    - Choose a hotel/hostel in the neighborhood of the metro station "Catete" or "Largo de Machado". It's a safe & little bit cheaper place and the ideal point of departure for all sights by taking the metro without changing the line.
    - Make a Hop-on Hop-off bus tour to get an overlook about the city and its beautiful places.
    - Join a Free Walking Tour to discover the City Center and neighborhood of Lapa: http://www.freewalkertours.com
    - Visit the website of Cristo Redentor to see on a live cam if the view is good or not: http://www.corcovadoaovivo.com.br
    - Eat "Tapioca" (a typical streetfood) and Açai berries    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 101

    Florianopólis - Barra da Lagoa

    December 5, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    After visiting the brazilian Iguazu Falls we took an overnight bus from Foz do Iguazu to Florianopólis. After a 16 hours ride we finally arrived in "Floripa" which is composed of one main island, the "Island of Santa Catarina" and many surrounding small ones.

    Our hostel was at the eastern side of the island at a beach called "Barra da Lagoa". So we took the public bus to go there. Unfortunately, after 30 minutes of driving, the bus wasn't able to move on because a tree trunk blocked the street. So we had to leave the bus until the only way to our hostel was free. Meanwhile in a restaurant, Alex realised that she left her iphone in the overnight bus. We desperately catched again the public bus to go back to the bus terminal. We were so happy when they told us that it was found but had to wait for two more hours till we got it back. The gap we used to get an overlook of the city center of "Floripa".

    It was allready evening when we finally arrived at our hostel. Unluckily we got informed about the fact that there was no electricity and Wifi since two days because of a cyclone that destroyed some parts of the island. Now it became clear why the street was blocked by the tree and why a lot of houses were under construction. But we were at least quite lucky, that we didn't arrive in the morning the day before when the storm just went over the island.

    The next days were very sunny. We enjoyed the nice weather so much, that we got sunburned like never before. But we still had a great day surfing and hanging at the beach.

    Our hostel called "Sunset Strip Eco Hostel" is high recomendable: very friendly staff, very nice atmosphere and surfboards for free!

    The island was actually much bigger than expected and we wished to stay longer to explore some other beaches because there were so many of them. But after the information that a second storm will reach the island on the next day, we decided on a whim to take a flight to Rio de Janeiro on the next morning.    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 100

    Parque das Aves

    December 4, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Our driver, who brought us to the "Iguazu Falls" in Brazil, recommended us to visit the Bird Park, which is located just 300m from the entrance to the brazilian falls. So we followed his suggestion. Two hours to spend there were perfect.

    It's a unique place in which we saw incredible birds of the Atlantic Rainforest in their natural habitat, alongside exotic species from around the world, many of them endangered. 50% of the birds were rescued from injuries and trafficking and 43% of them were born in the park. The main targets are rescue and conservation. We liked it as a good variety besides the waterfalls.    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 100

    Iguazu Falls - Brazil

    December 4, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    On the other day, the brazilian side of the "Iguazu Falls" was on our list. Because it's much smaller than the argentinian side, half a day is plenty enough to stay there. If we wouldn't have stayed in Brazil afterwards, it wouldn't have been necessary to do all the immigration staff, because Paraguay & Brazil are in this case really unbureaucratic. 👌🏻

    Compared to the argentinian side, the brazilian side is easily manageable because of the fact that there is just one way to walk on. We both found that it would have been better to do first this small side to get an overlook and visiting the day after the argentinian side.

    But we both couldn't decide which side we liked better. We would definitely recommend to visit both of them!    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 98

    Iguazu Falls - Argentina

    December 2, 2016 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    After some troubles with crossing the border to Argentina because the license of our taxidriver was expired, we finallay arrived at Cataratas (spanish word for waterfalls) on the argentinian side.

    The river "Iguazu" builds the border of Brazil and Argentina. There are 20 big and 225 smaller waterfalls with a total extension of 2.7km. Most of the big falls have the height of around 64m and some reach the size of 82m. The downgoing water amount moves from 1500 to 7000 m3/s.

    The argentinian side is much bigger than the brazilian one. It took us a whole day to walk around (incl. boat tour) and visiting all the different outlooks because the distances from one to the other spot were huge. Here we were able to walk on bridges in the middle of the river and went really close to one of the biggest falls. But we got even closer by speed boat: That close, that we got wet till our underpants - it was huge fun! 💦    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 97

    Cuidad del Este

    December 1, 2016 in Paraguay ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    After a 16h busride (including a bus change because the motor of the bus broke down) we arrived in Cuidad del Este which is located on the border of Brazil and Argentina. This town is the point of departure of Paraguay for visiting the world famous "Iguazu Falls" aswell as the hydroelectric dam "Itaipú".

    "Itaipú" is the world's largest producer of clean and renewable energy. The hydroelectric dam with its 20 turbines belongs half to Paraguay and half to Brazil. With only 2 turbines, Paraguay produces enough energy for the whole country. The energy of the other 8 turbines is used for export reason. The 10 brazilian turbines spend 20% of the whole needed brazilian electricity. It suplies especially São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The length of the dam is almost 8km - very impressive!

    The town itself ist nothing special, but well known for buying cheap stuff. The roads are covered with countless small sales stalls offering all the same products: fake branded t-shirts & sneakers and electronic devices. It was quite funny but not worth buying anything cheap. For us the most impressiv Thing was, that even the original electronic devices had almost the same prices than in Switzerland.    Read more

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    Day 91

    Estancia Loninga - Paraguay

    November 25, 2016 in Paraguay ⋅ ⛅ -9 °C

    After a 2h flight from Montevideo to Asunción, an 8h overnight busdrive from Asunción to Neuland and a 45min cardrive, we finally arrived at the "Estancia Loninga".

    Neuland: This colonie was founded by Mennonites in 1947 and is the last of three Mennonite colonies in this region. A german speaking group came to this place after flewing from the 2nd worldwar from Russia to Germany and later on to Paraguay. So it is that in this colonies the language is not only spanish but also german. The main economic sectors here are meat and milk production as well as agriculture.

    "Estancia Loninga" is a farm that belongs to Chrigis father and his cousin Hansueli. Hansueli lives here with his wife Barbara and they run together the farm. The 500ha area around their farm inhabits more than 400 cows as well as a few pigs and horses. We were lucky because we also saw Nandus who live free here.

    It was very interesting for us to get into the life of a farmer in Paraguay and could participate in some activities of their usual work. Thank you Hansueli & Barbara for having us with you and for introducing us into the live of a farmer. We really enjoyed it to be far away from the civilisation and have had a great week!    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 88

    Montevideo

    November 22, 2016 in Uruguay ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    The capital city of Uruguay is also known as the small sister of Buenos Aires. The stay of two days was perfect.

    The first day we spent walking arround in the old town. The next day we rented a bike and were driving 22km along the coast till the end of the city and all the way back. There were plenty of beautiful sandy beaches and on the way back in the evening everyone was doing exercises, cycling, hanging, drinking Mate Tea, skating and more. It seemed to be in LA rather than in Uruguay. We were quite surprised about the lifestyle of the uruguayan people.

    But now we let the city life behind and drop into the countryside of Paraguay.    Read more

  • TravelerSOUTH AMERICA
    Day 87

    Colonia del Sacramento - Uruguay

    November 21, 2016 in Uruguay ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Just seconds after getting the stamp in the passport to leave Argentina, a man accompanied us to the next counter which allready put the stamp of the entry permit of Uruguay in it. So we kinda where allready in Uruguay even we haven't yet left Argentina. Would have been nice to have always such an unbureaucratic immigration.

    To go with the ferry was a special experience, because it was quite similar like going by the airplane: The check-in process was the same and the seats were like in a plane, the only difference was that the duty free shops were on the boat.

    After an one hour drive with the ferry we crossed the 40km broad river (yes it is a river and actually the broadest in the world) and arrived in Colonia del Sacramento.

    Colonia is a very tranquil beach town. It's the right opposite to Buenos Aires and perfect to calm down. It has a historical centre with old, narrow streets and buildings and on several corners we found really old cars standing there. Some of them they let just there as a static symbol of the past, others are really rusty but still in use! To spend one day in Colonia was definitely a right desicion!    Read more

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