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28th July 2014
Today was the last day of my tour, and after having said goodbye to everyone i went off to the airport where i boarded my flight to buenos aires, where i moved into my apartement, the one i willl be staying in during the duration of my study abroad session, from august to december
27th July 2014
today we wet for breakfast close to the beach before going to visit the sugar loaf , but unfortunately it was covered in clouds, so we couldnt see much , but it was also the last time we could visit it ! just as we were about to leave it started pourring down with rain, […]
26th July 2014
Today we decided to go on a tour of the favelas , and got to walk down the streets and go onto one of the roofs and oversee the whole favela, we even visited a pinting workshop, where locals sold paintings they made ! since it was raining we decided to stay in until dinner […]
25th July 2014
today we took the boat again , but under the pourring rain and got drenched to go to the mainland and then a bus to go to rio ! once in rio we decided to visit chris the redeamer just before it closed and got to see it in the dark , which was even […]
24th July 2014
today a few of us got up at 3 am and started hiking up to Parrot’s peak ( one of the highest peaks of the island – 980m) through the jungle in the dark until we arived at the top 3 hours later just in time to see the sunrise and get amazing pictures, before […]
23rd July 2014
today we hiked the island for about 2 and a half hour, crossing different beaches to get to one of brazil’s top 10 beaches , which was amazing , once there we just relaxed and swam in the sea but every time we did the currents would be so strong they would push us further […]
22nd July 2014
today we took a bus and a boat to get to ilha grande, our next destination , there we dropped off our stuff and went to a great burger place before visiting the island a little bit, we walked to a viaduct and natural swimming pools ( but they were freezing ) and then back […]
21st July 2014
today we walked down to the pier and got on this massive boat, where we all sailed around the bay and stopped a few times so that we could jump into the water and look around, on the first stop we swam to a little island , and the second one we got to jump […]
20th July 2014
today we had to meet at 4:30 to go to the airport , but since my alarm didnt ring , i woke up at 4:28 and had to run everywhere to get ready ! when we got to the airport, we took a plane to sao paulo and then changed to a private bus to […]
19th July 2014
today we went back to argentina to visit the argentinian side of the falls, but due to a flood about a month ago, half the bridges were broken and we werent able to see everything, after some walking around, we went on a 4×4 through the jungle to the bottom of the river where we […]