If you dont like bragging dont read this
Um so where was I.. oh yeah Curitiba. Very nice student town. Clean and quiet and did not fear getting stabbed / mugged / raped as much as previous places. Only there a day as a means to get to Foz De Igauzu which has the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.
We had a overnight bus there and well my goodness the longhaul buses in Brazil are effing amazing- better than being on a plane. You get seats that recline right back, a foot rest that unfolds in front and they give you a little packed lunch. I took a comedy photo me n Holly (new pal) looking well chuffed. They tried to play a Deep Purple dvd but couldnt get it to work...shame. Still hard to sleep on it though.
Got to Foz at 7.30am and then straight to hotel to dump stuff and get a quick shower. Went to the biggest hydroelectric damn in the world- but it wasnt on so just felt like 'bring your child to work day' and me being the uninteressted snot nosed brat. Borring.
The promo film Itapiu Company showed before was a gas though
"Luuuck at the brrrilliant people of BRRRRAZZZILL! AMAZING! WITTY(?)" and bragging about how Brazil has doubled its population in 30 years showing crowds of people walking throught the streets in 80s clothes. At the end an Itapiu worker in a hard hat thumbs up at the screen. Straight off The Simpsons a tell thee...
Then we all whizzed off to the Heliport and I had my first helicopter ride!!! I was totally bricking it- its the weirdest thing I've ever been in- just buzzing around the sky like a little bee! We went right over the Falls and I got some fantastic pics- and I got to sit next to the pilot!!! Woooooo!! Still, I kept thinking 'oh, the propeller could just stall...' and then have to have a word with myself and continue grinning like a loon.
After that we went to a bird sanctuary and then to the Falls on foot - Amazing. Like stepping into an Imax cinema screen. We went across to the Argentinean side the following day and stood right next to where the Falls, well, fall? It was like standing next to the Plug Hole of the World except instead of a dirty sink you can see Lord of the Rings-ish rainbows and mists and caverns... There are no words. So I wont bore you. But I was speechless and thats saying something. We took a speedboat into the mists of them and I truly thought I was witnessing my last moments on earth- shoulda guessed that the bloke filming it at the speedboats helm wasn't arsed so I shouldn't have been screaming at the top of my lungs. But I did anyway- like Alton Towers but you could really die!!
Ace.
Oh- also went to a 'Fast Show Channel 9' style south american caberet. Just so awful it was fantastic. Again wordless...
Errrm what else. Oh I've been in and out of Paraguay. Shithole. Two nights and one day in the capital Ascension. Tax free haven (ha!) that has the slums and destitute living DIRECTLY behind the fine presidential & congress buildings. Sick. As have mentioned before can sleep through anything so can only tell you my room mates word that there was lots of gunfire in the night. Id heard a bit while we were having dinner but like to think it was fireworks. That's nicer and my mum reading this would like that.
Mum, it was fireworks okay?
We had the (pissed) Director General of... Pensions(fnar) flashing his bizzy ness card at us in a dining place trying to get my chick-dominated tour to go to a club but Siri (tour leader) told him to do one. Probably lucky he didnt pull his 'strings' and have us detained in Paraguays finest...
So. More posh buses and I'm back in Brazil in Bonito which as the name suggests is beautiful - been snorkeling in a freshwater river today with MASSIVE FISH!! And then hammock sleeps after heeheee... and wild red macaws in trees and...! Oh the bragging!
I'm going red I really am ;)
We had a overnight bus there and well my goodness the longhaul buses in Brazil are effing amazing- better than being on a plane. You get seats that recline right back, a foot rest that unfolds in front and they give you a little packed lunch. I took a comedy photo me n Holly (new pal) looking well chuffed. They tried to play a Deep Purple dvd but couldnt get it to work...shame. Still hard to sleep on it though.
Got to Foz at 7.30am and then straight to hotel to dump stuff and get a quick shower. Went to the biggest hydroelectric damn in the world- but it wasnt on so just felt like 'bring your child to work day' and me being the uninteressted snot nosed brat. Borring.
The promo film Itapiu Company showed before was a gas though
"Luuuck at the brrrilliant people of BRRRRAZZZILL! AMAZING! WITTY(?)" and bragging about how Brazil has doubled its population in 30 years showing crowds of people walking throught the streets in 80s clothes. At the end an Itapiu worker in a hard hat thumbs up at the screen. Straight off The Simpsons a tell thee...
Then we all whizzed off to the Heliport and I had my first helicopter ride!!! I was totally bricking it- its the weirdest thing I've ever been in- just buzzing around the sky like a little bee! We went right over the Falls and I got some fantastic pics- and I got to sit next to the pilot!!! Woooooo!! Still, I kept thinking 'oh, the propeller could just stall...' and then have to have a word with myself and continue grinning like a loon.
After that we went to a bird sanctuary and then to the Falls on foot - Amazing. Like stepping into an Imax cinema screen. We went across to the Argentinean side the following day and stood right next to where the Falls, well, fall? It was like standing next to the Plug Hole of the World except instead of a dirty sink you can see Lord of the Rings-ish rainbows and mists and caverns... There are no words. So I wont bore you. But I was speechless and thats saying something. We took a speedboat into the mists of them and I truly thought I was witnessing my last moments on earth- shoulda guessed that the bloke filming it at the speedboats helm wasn't arsed so I shouldn't have been screaming at the top of my lungs. But I did anyway- like Alton Towers but you could really die!!
Ace.
Oh- also went to a 'Fast Show Channel 9' style south american caberet. Just so awful it was fantastic. Again wordless...
Errrm what else. Oh I've been in and out of Paraguay. Shithole. Two nights and one day in the capital Ascension. Tax free haven (ha!) that has the slums and destitute living DIRECTLY behind the fine presidential & congress buildings. Sick. As have mentioned before can sleep through anything so can only tell you my room mates word that there was lots of gunfire in the night. Id heard a bit while we were having dinner but like to think it was fireworks. That's nicer and my mum reading this would like that.
Mum, it was fireworks okay?
We had the (pissed) Director General of... Pensions(fnar) flashing his bizzy ness card at us in a dining place trying to get my chick-dominated tour to go to a club but Siri (tour leader) told him to do one. Probably lucky he didnt pull his 'strings' and have us detained in Paraguays finest...
So. More posh buses and I'm back in Brazil in Bonito which as the name suggests is beautiful - been snorkeling in a freshwater river today with MASSIVE FISH!! And then hammock sleeps after heeheee... and wild red macaws in trees and...! Oh the bragging!
I'm going red I really am ;)
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