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Little Chloe's intrepid traveller guide!
Oi!!(portuguese for hello!)
Im in Porto seguro!! Left Rio, begrudgingly(is that a word?!) on thursday night- no spaces on the regular buses so i ended being on a bus WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING for 19HOURS!!!!It was an experience . . . . . . It was so hot outside that i could actually SEE forest fires starting, no joke. Came here to catch the last few days of carnival. Saw the best float ever on friday night! A load of drunken street cleaners, on a 'float', with glittery wheelbarrows, and colourful brooms, and fags in their hands half dancing to samba music.
Tonight me and a couple of other guys from canada and s.africa are getting a bus to Salvador!! Sounds like a great place and am, as always, v.excited!
So many things i havent mentionned!!
Sunday night- SAMBODROMO!! Had a wicked night, interesting start, as the taxi drivers car kept breaking down, and the engine almost flooded several times- i almost sound like i know what im talking about! Parades and floats were amazing. Mainly consisted of half naked brazilian women jumping around doing 'samba' on random floats of skeletons. . . .
Monday night-We went to go out in Lapa- THE place for nightlife, really dodgy but really good! Didnt even end up going into any clubs, just partying on the streets! Left the hostel at about 12 and got back at about 8 the next morning, partly wearing stolen sambodrome costumes!! Watched the sunrise, chatted to some sleazy brazillians . . . .the norm!They just dont leave u alone godamn!
Listened to this cute old drunk guy telling us stories about how he stopped a train from crashing and killing everyone on board!i loved him . . .
Managed to get 7 in a taxi!OH yeah!!Twas hilarious.
Cant remember tuesday. So it mustve been good!
Wednesday-Finally got round to doing sugarloaf, after almost 2weeks being there and doing almost nothing except party, and sleep! Was pretty amazing, also quite scary, but unlike the london eye i managed to refrain from crying. So many daily challenges i tell u! That night me and the other girls all went to shenanigans, a good old irish bar round the corner. Met some irish lads of course!! Good guys, v.funny!good night!
Thursday- Got up to Christ!Felt it had to be done. Though it was really cloudy and i couldnt see anything!! Didnt realise it was so high. Clouds actually go past u!CRAZY!
Dont know if i mentionned it before but when i was in Rio i also did a favela tour (favelas are the shanty towns built into the hills which are notorious for drug trafficking, violence, and general lawlessness-police wont even go up there!) Was really interesting, the 'houses'are like 2rooms big and huge families live there. We went to Rocinha- the biggest favela, with over 300,000 people living there- memory card is almost full now so will post photos shortly. Cant take photos everywhere there tho, in case you catch evidence of something dodgy. The whole favelas are run basically by the drug lords, who sometimes threaten the whole of Rio (all the shops, restaurants close and no one goes outside). Ended up going -WITHOUT REALISING- at the time when there was a big war between rocinha and a neighbouring favela, quite a few people were killed but im fine so no worries!
P.S. The tattoo isnt real!!!Its henna!!!LOL.
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