Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Blog - Tuesday May 24th 2011
Location: Mellow Yellow Hostel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Doesn't time fly when you are having fun! Its been an entire week since my last post! Rio has been an excellent experience, so much to do here and so little time! And so much to write about but not enough time either! So here is a week in Rio in summery! Wednesday I went to the world surfing championships which were happening on Ipenema beach, Thursday I conquered the Sugarloaf mountain - all be it by cable car! spectacular view of what has to be on the worlds most astethicly pleasing cites. Friday i had a date with christ! ie Christ the Redeemer, and went to see the world famous art project that is the Lapa Steps. Friday night was also spent in Lapa at what I can only describe as the craziest street party I have ever been to anyway!
Sadly I awoke Saturday morning to discover that my camera had been stolen from my backpack during the night, this being a disappointment would be an understatement! I only had the camera 6 weeks and it had cost a lot of money, money which it took a lot of hours to earn! Anyway I have dealt with its loss in my head and have moved on, sadly I wont to able to shoot pics of the same quality I have been able to up to now but hopefully along the trip somewhere I will be able to purchase a new camera!
Rio being the first city of my South American trip had also re-introduced me to the joys of backpacking and I have been very lucky to meet a number of fellow backpackers here to share stories with and gain info about places worth visiting. It seems there is no-one left in Israel as I have met so many from there backpacking and also the Dutch are well represented down here, add to that mix two Argentineans a Spaniard and a Portuguese/Belgian/Irish girl and you can get an idea of the company ive been keeping for the last week! Its great to be back on the road....
Tomorrow i plan to travel to the worlds largest waterfall (by water mass) Foz do Iguacu which lies on the Brazilian/Argentinean/Paraguayan border and approx. a 22 hr bus trip from here..... so until Thursday (at the earliest!).....