Experiencing Brazil

After traveling in a safe group for the last couple of days, I’m on my own again..

My plan is to fly back to Rio, to deposit my luggage and then to explore the region between Rio and Belo Horizonte. It’s supposed to be an amazing region with beautiful landscape, old villages, friendly people and good food 🙂 Exactly what I’m looking for!

The difficulty will be that no one speaks English here! So most of the time my interactions with locals end up with both sides being puzzled and confused 😉

However, it wouldn’t be the same adventure if there were not challenges like that 😉 Or to cite another great traveler:

“For the last 10 years I’ve been running a company called “The Adventurists”. We specialise in organising large scale, stupid and dangerous adventures. All based around the feeling that the world has gone soft. That health and safety is a evil force creeping into our minds and tutting loudly when anyone has any fun. Telling people it’s not their fault if they get burned from a coffee cup if it doesn’t say the words “caution hot” all over it. But it is your fault. You’re fucking stupid if you burn yourself with coffee.

Well that’s how it should be, but a bunch of oily shit-eating lawyers are making a lot of money from turning the world into a padded cell. So we try to organise adventures where you can’t control everything and where fun comes before safety. And importantly it’s your fault if you get fucked up. Because I believe that adventure can’t be safe and shouldn’t be carefully scripted. The best adventures come when things don’t go to plan. So next time you see a safety at work sign, pull it down and take a healthy dump on it.”

Check out their newest travel idea: reindeer racing 😉

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The first glimps of Brazilian crazyness already occured on my flight back from Sao Paulo to Rio. As I could read in front of me:

“Use seat bottom for flotation.”

And a quick hand movement below my seat confirmed my fears, there was no life jacket! Welcome to Brazil, I guess 😉

Tags: Rio

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