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Damu wrote a new blog post: Birthday in Lencois 14 years, 3 months ago · View
Day 30 Tue 28/9 Seabra/Lencois A rough night in the bus. Didnt sleep well. Way too uncomfortable and the bus felt like a commerial freezer! Reached Seabra an hour late at 09:00, but it suits me since it means that my wait for the bus to Lencois will be shorter. There is nobody else in […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Photos of Brasilia, Lencois & Chapada 14 years, 3 months ago · View
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Robbed in Brasilia 14 years, 3 months ago · View
Day 28 Sun 26/9 Brasilia Brasilia central bus station (rodoviaria) is huge and confusing. Have to wait an hour for the bus. I watch the crowds. It might be the Central west, but people didnt seem very frienly here. They also have the annoying habit of throwing things on the floor around them and not […]
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Damu commented on the blog post Pantanal – caymen, macaus, tucans, howler monkeys 14 years, 3 months ago · View
Here you go, Ruth! The fish only looks small on camera. In reality, it was about 2m long and so heavy that I was scared it would sink the boat. It needed my superhuman strength to get it out of the water and hold it for the photo!
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Photos of Pantanal 14 years, 3 months ago · View
My photos dont quite do justice to the beauty and the majesty of Pantanal or the wildlife! I also managed to forget my camera on a couple of occasions.
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Pantanal – caymen, macaus, tucans, howler monkeys 14 years, 3 months ago · View
Day 24 – 26 Wed – Fri 22/9 – 24/9, Pantanal Pantanal is a wetland and is a great place to see wildlife! It is dry season and was extremely dusty the first two days in Pantanal. It was amazing how beautiful it looked after a night of rain (Thu night). After breakfast, it was off […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Photos (Sao Paulo, Trindade and Angra dos Reis) 14 years, 4 months ago · View
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I had been to Sao Paulo in 2005 and didnt like it much! Now, after nearly 3 days here, it is starting to grow on me. Sao Paulo has 20 million residents and is the New York of South America. The economic centre, where the folks work incessantly and where the rich take to helicopters […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Long way to Sao Paulo 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 18 Thu 16/9, Trindade Another rainy day drove me to Paraty with Jana and Coco, two other members of the Hostel Holandes touring party. We walked booked tickets on the bus to Sao Paulo and then walked around centro. Paraty is a small town and it has some pretty buildings. Most of the buildings […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Trindade, dealings with police and adenture hikes 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 15 Mon 13/9, Ilha Grande/ Trindade Breakfast and goodbyes again. Aboard the ferry to Angra dos Reis at 10:00 sharp. 1.5 hr boat ride leaves a bunch of us tourists in Angra with a lot of locals. Most of the tourists head to the bus stop to catch a bus to Parati. Luckily, it […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Snorkelling, drunk guides and more.. 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Photos: Ilha Grande Day 13 Sat 11/9, Ilha Grande (Villa Abraao) A warm sunny day. Perfect for a day out on a boat. I decided, with a group of flks frm the hostel to go snorkelling – my first attempt. The boat was very comfortable and had about 70 – 80 passengers, with two levels. The guide […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: A hike and football on the beach 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 12 Fri 10/9, Ilha Grande (Villa Abraao) Today I was an honourary Irishman. Went hiking out to the Praia Lopes Mendes with 3 Irish girls. Ran into more Irish folks (from Rio) before the start of the hike. It was a tougher hike than the one to Dois Rios, but a more enjoyable one. […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Benign solitude… 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 11 Thu 9/9, Ilha Grande (Villa Abraao) “When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude” I’ve probably got it all wrong and can’t remember who wrote that. I had a day […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Island Paradise 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 9 Tuesday Sept 7, Rio/ Ilha Grande (Villa Abraao) Another (free) breakfast at the hostel with fruits, fruit juices, bread and cake. It seems like a Brasilian thing, cake for breakfast! I have been trying out all the fruits available to me, mostly in the form of fruit juices. Acai, with granola, has been my […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Acting the guide in Rio and saying goodbye 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 7 Sunday Sept 5, Rio My first brush with bad weather in Rio. Woke up to the sound of the wind blowing the windows shut. After breakfast, walked up to the beach. Had to turn back due to the wind a block away. The wind was so strong that it was blowing sand up […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Rio City centre and Niteroi 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 5: Sept 3, Rio/Niteroi I woke up early and took the bus to the city centre. My attempt at speaking Portuguese elicited a smile and a shake of the head from the pretty conductor (In Brasilian buses, you enter through the front and pay a person who is in charge of taking money, giving […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: A Cidade Maravilhosa 14 years, 4 months ago · View
Day 1 : Seattle/Charlotte Monday Aug 30 3 frantic days of packing, cleaning and moving before the apartment was empty and clean enuogh to allow me to hand the keys over to the manager. Amazing how much work there was, especially when I got to the last stages! I felt like a rabbit who is […]
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Damu wrote a new blog post: Voy a Brasil! 14 years, 5 months ago · View
I must down to the seas again To the vagrant gypsy life To the gull’s way To the whale’s way Where the wind’s like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing rover and quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trip’s over My year as a nomad […]
