Author: sanni
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The Rules of Travelling
During our trip in South America we always joked about the Rules of Travelling: basic rules of thumb that ensure that you get the most out of your travels with the least amount of hassle/pain/irritation, especially when backpacking. These will also work on city trips. The Rules have been developed and refined on the numerous…
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World’s Most Dangerous Road
We’ve just had the most exhilarating, scary, amazing and mind numbingly mystifying experience possible. After chilling for one day in La Paz (world’s highest capital at 3,600m above sea level), we decided that it was time for some action. Yungas Road, also known as the World’s Most Dangerous Road, has more fatalities per km than any…
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Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore
We arrived in Bolivia last Friday and spent the first night in the wealthy city of Santa Cruz. The hotel was supposed to have a sauna and a swimming pool, but the former wasn´t on, and the latter was ice cold but we bravely had a swim nevertheless. It was like swimming in a lake in Finland…
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Muy Bonito!
After hot Asuncion we headed to back to Brazil. The bus had airconditioning this time, so in principle the 5-6 hr journey was going to more comfortable than the cattle-car experience previously. Only the driver decided to earn a few extra guaranis and the coach stopped literally every 5-10 minutes to pick up a few…
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“Poor Niagara”
is what Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly said when she first saw the Iguazu Falls. Although I wouldn´t diss the Niagara Falls, Cataratas do Iguazu is pretty awe-inspiring. The name of the falls, which are located on the border between Brazil and Argentina, derives from the Guarani words i (water) and uazu (big), and that´s exactly what it is. The sheer number…
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About Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo is 3 times the size of Paris, and the official estimates for the population of Sao Paulo are between 18-24 million – the error margin is bigger than the whole population of Finland!! It´s a crazy, busy, polluted, and at times quite a depressing place to visit. On the way from Paraty (the last 1.5…
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That beach
Starting from Renata´s flat we started walking around the lagoon (Lagua) to get to the Ipanema beach. Lots of brasileiro´s were jogging and cycling past us, it was a real shame we forgot our running shoes in London… Ipanema beach was as wonderful as I´d always imagined, with beautiful white sands, blue seas and tall,…
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River of January
We finally arrived in Rio de Janeiro (which means River of January in Portuguese) on Saturday evening as – to our surprise – did our luggage, which Iberia was unwilling (unable?) to hand back to us on Friday when we were stranded in Madrid. The customer service agent assured it would be checked in for…
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Wet planes
Courtesy of Iberia airlines, we´re spending the night in Madrid after missing our connection from Madrid to Rio today. Our flight, for which we had to get up at 04:30 – somewhat painful after a few (too many) leaving drinks last night – was late leaving Heathrow because the plane was “wet”. Yes, that´s right,…