Brazil

Ola todo!

Here we are again..sitting in really warm and sunny Brazil with a good and cold beer.

At the moment we are in Foz do Iguazu, camping for the first time. But first things first. We started our trip more then a week ago in Rio de Janeiro.

The first couple of days we spend ajusting to the Brazillian way of life. Enjoying the beaches, the people, the crazy public transportation system (busdrivers drive like they all think they are Ayrton Senna) and of course the city and a lot of sun.The first two days we just wandered around and visited the old part of Rio (Santa Teresa). The last day we acted like proper tourists and visited `Christ the Redeemer` and the Suger Loaf Mountain (known from a Bond movie). Really beautiful to see the city from above with monkeys running around.

After spending a lot of money, we decided that our next stop would be Paraty, a small colonial village known for its beautiful surroundings and its beaches. Trindade (four beaches connected to eachother by atlantic forrest) made the biggest impression on us. The forrest ends on the beach and we had to walk through the forrest to reach the other beaches.

In Paraty we decided that our next stop would be Foz do Iguazu with it´s enormous Iguaza Falls (Cataratas do Iguazu). Today we visited the Itaipu Dam, which is said to be one of the 7 new wonders of the industrial world. Really big and impressive to see how mankind succeeded in controlling nature and makes it work for our benefit, but at the other end a lot of local people and animals are victims of this need to control everything. Tomorrow we will go to Argentina to visit the falls. They say that visiting the falls from this side is the most impressive, but visiting them from both sides is possible.

The two of us are enjoying our tent, really small sleeping matresses and an enormous bathroom (really!! will post pictures of it later on) at the moment. The sun has been shining all the time and we got sunburned..(zucht). You guys probably all know that when you travel with two people, there is always one of them who gets the musquito bites all the time.. Eline is the lucky one:-). White legs full with red bumps..it´s just like a red and white mushroom..nice!

We can´t post pictures at the moment due to really bad internet-connections here in Brazil. We will post them as soon as possible.

Hope you are all doing fine, we are realy enjoying our time of and just doing exactly what we want to do. Still not always believing that we have that much time...

Kisses and hugs,

Tom and Eline