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terrencechan

Brazil! (almost)

Dec 01, 2010 00:12

In 48 hours time, I will be on a flight from Toronto to Sao Paulo. My ticket is still booked to connect to Rio de Janeiro, but with the violence going on there between the police and the drug lords, it seemed like a good idea to start researching other options. After posting on some message boards, I found out about CM System in Curitiba. CM ( Read more... )

florianopolis, brazil, curitiba

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anonymous December 2 2010, 06:55:32 UTC

You can drive from Sao Paulo to Curibita, I did in 2008. It would be a long days drive but absolutely spectacular roads - empty 4 lane highways over mountains. From there it's another days drive to Iguazu Falls, not be missed.

Curibita seemed a bit bleak to me, basically just a town based around the car manufacturing industry - it has free Wifi across town though fwiw.

Buzios north of Rio ftw on NYE

Fasano in Rio for hotel. The favelas are way out of the way of any where you might go in Rio so I wouldn't worry about the violence.

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