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Well our last night in Buenos Aires was very eventful! We were sat in a restaurant on the corner just up from our hostel and just as we'd finished eating at the crossroads 2 buses piled into one another with the one coming down the road towards us being shunted across into the bank opposite (squashing a man dead) then careering down the road and finally smashing into a hotel on our side of the road. It was quite traumatic to watch as there were people lay scattered about and the one dead man, I dont think anyone else was seriously injured. Vic and I were just thankful we didnt eat any faster as we'd planned to go to the bank after we'd eaten and so we would have been hit if we'd gone 5 mins earlier.
But enough of the depressing stories we're now in Brasil, we arrived in Sao Paulo and the weather was grey and overcast but we got a room at the Formule1 hotel which was opposite the hostel we were going to stay at and the same price practically as a dorm, so we spent 2 nights in a lovely clean room with a power shower. There wasnt a lot to see and do in SP so we just went to the bus terminal and bought tickets to Rio for the next day, then went to have a look at the teatro municipal (another fancy looking building) and had a mooch about the shopping centre. One thing i noticed here is that there are even more homeless people sleeping on the streets and they seem a lot younger here than anywhere else we've been. South America does seem the worst by far for homeless people as they're constantly there on every street lay on the floor wrapped in blankets. We did see a bit of a fight breakout between some of the homeless boys but we walked away before we were involved.
Vic has felt quite uneasy walking around S america and particularly here in Brasil i think, I have felt a bit uneasy as we do seem to stick out like a sore thumb to be travelling unlike in Asia and Oz where there are hundreds so you blend in. So i suppose we are more of a target here and there are a lot more sketchy areas here in the cities.
Anyway yesterday we got the bus (6hrs) up to Rio and then a taxi to the hostel we had booked for the night. The hostel is really random as it has a rock climbing wall in the middle and a lot of it is open air, and we got told to wear our flip flops in the shower to avoid major electric shocks!!! Needless to say today we are looking for a new hostel.
The weather here in Rio isnt as good as we were hoping so no beaching it for us, so dunno what we're going to do for two and a half weeks here!
Anyway must go to google some more hostels.
-Ali have a great party!! wish we could be there!!!
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