sehvi
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As some of you might have read somewhere on this forum in the past few months i have been travelling together with a friend through South-America. We visited Brazil, Bolivia, Chili for just a few days and then went into Peru where we finished our trip. The route we took wasn't the best route actually.. (since we also could have started in rio de janerio and then work our way up through argentina.. the middle of brazil is boring imo) but my mate wanted to celebrate christmas and new year with his family who flew in later to Brazil so we decided to start off in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) and go down the coast a little to meet up with his family. To start off with something this is the route we took:
After almost one month of being into Brazil our cameras and mobile phones got nicked.. so i don't have any pictures to provide from Salvador, and some places where we have been in between. It's too bad though because we had a great time there, visited the most beautifull tropical island i've ever seen in my life (google "morro de sao paulo" if you're interested) and we spent a month in arraial d'ajuda with my mates family and had a great time there too, with loads of parties at the beach and blabla..) so i'm kicking off with some pics of Brasilia (their capital). My mate made this pic with the lense open from our Hotel.. at the start of our trip we mainly slept in hotels which was stupid, because in hostals of course you meet all other travellers and do that drinking thing day in day out
They had a pretty sweet bridge in that city and the way it has been build (the infrastructure of the city) was nice to see, this is supposed to be brazil's richest city but the governmental buildings looked like shit hehe.
The landscape in the middle of brazil is isn't really exciting, in my opinion (coming from a country which is FLAT) it was quite boring actually. So i was quite amazed that a guy who we met in Brasilia brought us to this place, which eventually down into the valley led us to a waterfall and a nice natural swimming pool.
This same guy actually helped us out a lot, he's a trance producer (if you're into goa trance you might know him, he and his mate are known as e-fact and they recently got signed at the japanese label "vision quest". so now they're gonna play all over the world.). He took us with him to a city a little bit south of Brasilia, the name is the city is Goianias, where he and his mate where supposed to play a live set in a club over there. Het got us in for free, had the club pay our stay in a fucking sweet hotel and got drunk as fuck on the club's expenses . He also pointed us out this cute little town called Perinopolis:
Where we went into this park (skipping all those pics..) where we saw this cute butterfly with transparant wings
After that we continued more to the south west of Brazil.. entering the worlds biggest swamp "the pantanal". The moment we got out of the bus in Campo Grande we got approached by backpacker-stalkin' advertisers who were trying to get us to join their organised tours through the pantanal and that's how we learned of the possibility to actually go into it and do some animal touchin' . This is the camp where we stranded, notice how it is build on poles to prevent it from getting soaked when the water is high during the rain season):
The location was pretty cool.. The camp was build next to the river.. and we stayed there for 4 days, did various things containing horseback riding (my fucking balls hurt at the end ), jeep safari (which was pretty neat), piranha fishing and in the evening you could just hang out, play volleybal with the brazillian kids, fish for more piranhas or just get drunk (like most people did) at the big community hall. It was cool to be stuck there for a few days with loads of people from all over the world. The guides were really bad ass too. Here's a pic of the river next to it:
Here is a picture of my mate fishing for piranhas.. it was quite easy to catch them just add a bowl of meat on your hook and you had one within 2 minutes haha.. pretty cool.
After almost one month of being into Brazil our cameras and mobile phones got nicked.. so i don't have any pictures to provide from Salvador, and some places where we have been in between. It's too bad though because we had a great time there, visited the most beautifull tropical island i've ever seen in my life (google "morro de sao paulo" if you're interested) and we spent a month in arraial d'ajuda with my mates family and had a great time there too, with loads of parties at the beach and blabla..) so i'm kicking off with some pics of Brasilia (their capital). My mate made this pic with the lense open from our Hotel.. at the start of our trip we mainly slept in hotels which was stupid, because in hostals of course you meet all other travellers and do that drinking thing day in day out
They had a pretty sweet bridge in that city and the way it has been build (the infrastructure of the city) was nice to see, this is supposed to be brazil's richest city but the governmental buildings looked like shit hehe.
The landscape in the middle of brazil is isn't really exciting, in my opinion (coming from a country which is FLAT) it was quite boring actually. So i was quite amazed that a guy who we met in Brasilia brought us to this place, which eventually down into the valley led us to a waterfall and a nice natural swimming pool.
This same guy actually helped us out a lot, he's a trance producer (if you're into goa trance you might know him, he and his mate are known as e-fact and they recently got signed at the japanese label "vision quest". so now they're gonna play all over the world.). He took us with him to a city a little bit south of Brasilia, the name is the city is Goianias, where he and his mate where supposed to play a live set in a club over there. Het got us in for free, had the club pay our stay in a fucking sweet hotel and got drunk as fuck on the club's expenses . He also pointed us out this cute little town called Perinopolis:
Where we went into this park (skipping all those pics..) where we saw this cute butterfly with transparant wings
After that we continued more to the south west of Brazil.. entering the worlds biggest swamp "the pantanal". The moment we got out of the bus in Campo Grande we got approached by backpacker-stalkin' advertisers who were trying to get us to join their organised tours through the pantanal and that's how we learned of the possibility to actually go into it and do some animal touchin' . This is the camp where we stranded, notice how it is build on poles to prevent it from getting soaked when the water is high during the rain season):
The location was pretty cool.. The camp was build next to the river.. and we stayed there for 4 days, did various things containing horseback riding (my fucking balls hurt at the end ), jeep safari (which was pretty neat), piranha fishing and in the evening you could just hang out, play volleybal with the brazillian kids, fish for more piranhas or just get drunk (like most people did) at the big community hall. It was cool to be stuck there for a few days with loads of people from all over the world. The guides were really bad ass too. Here's a pic of the river next to it:
Here is a picture of my mate fishing for piranhas.. it was quite easy to catch them just add a bowl of meat on your hook and you had one within 2 minutes haha.. pretty cool.
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