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Balneário Camboriú, the beach!!
We are in Brasil now after visiting the beautiful cataratas (waterfalls) in puerto iguazú.
Quick backtrack:
spent christmas eve in posadas hanging out with the guys who ran the hostel. very cruisy, lots of kids setting off fireworks. here they go out after midnight on christmas eve and celebrate.
went to puerto iguazú, stayed at a hostel a bit like a resort with a huge pool. went to the cataratas and then got tanned but also sunburnt sitting by the pool. Josh copped it really bad.
now in brasil and think portuguese is officially THE weirdest language ever. seriously, it´s strange.
We´re in Camboriú to catch up with my friend pedro whom i met in paris a couple of years back. he speaks a bit of english, a bit of spanish so we get by! and he sort of translates this weird weird language for us which is helpful. i can now count to 7, say good morning and good night, but good afternoon is hard to say. i can also say thank you and sorry. but i think i will never be able to say anything else.
we have to stay in a hotel here as this city, although quite the holidaying spot for argentines, does not have a single backpackers! the staff at the hotel don´t speak english which i thought was strange for a hotel, but we speak poor spanish to them, they said it´s easier for them to understand. they have the best breakfast ever at the hotel, all for ´free´! and they eat cake here fore breakfast?!
yesterday we went to dinner with pedro and today he took us to another beach, even though we are staying near a beach. All the high rises are right on the beach front, they are mainly appartments and when the weather is good (which it has been) it looks exactly like the tourism pics. Big green mountains on either side, a small island in the near distance and lots and lots of people with umbrellas. So the beach we went to was the brava beach with lots of ´beautiful people´ and waves. I´m getting pretty dark now from spending all this time in the sun, but accompanied of course by lovely tan lines.
I went paragliding today!! It was really fun, but a bit expensive. BRL$120 for 15 minutes. worth it though. We´ll spend another day here then take a bus to florianópolis for NY!! hopefully it´ll be really good. in brasil they wear white for NY so we´ll get in on that too. it was a difficult decision where to spend NY, it´s hard to get accomodation anywhere and everything is expensive!
Can´t believe we´re a month in already! Only another month to go and we have to jam pack it with more brasil, bolivia, peru (finally some cheap places!)...also looking forward to catching up with fellow adelaideans soon!