Rio Maravilhosa
Rio De Janeiro, The Marvellous City, has caught our hearts! It already felt like getting home, as we crossed the huge bridge over the Guanabara Bay and for the first time sighted the vibrant city embedded between the Sugar Loaf Mountain and the Corcovado Rock. Our friend Françoise, who works for the Pan-American Games 2007 in Rio, is kindly hosting us in her flat in Leblon, at the far end of Ipanema Beach. Thanks to her we can enjoy the real life in Rio! Oh, sorry, without the stress of work, of course...
Let us just describe a few fragments of our rather addictive sight-enjoying activities:
- Visit an open-air Samba club and let the vibes drain your blood vessels in order to synchronize with the adventurous rhythm of life in Rio.
- Feel like the Christo Redentor Statue on Corcovado, and enjoy the show of the humid seabreeze and the setting sun playing with the clouds to constantly recreate new 360º sceneries of Rio.
- View the surprised faces of all the tourists visiting the top of the Sugar Loaf Mountain by cablecar on our arrival by foot with our brilliant climbing guide Fabio (climber's website)
- Feel like a looser after having joined the fan-ranks of the "Flamengo" team in the Maracana - football stadium and viewed the 999th goal of Romario, for the "Vasco da Gama" team.
- Feel like a bird sailing in the sea-breeze along the Pedra de Gavea Mountain and attacking a free-fall with recordholder Marcio's double-place hangglider towards the beach of Sao Conrado (Easyflyrio).
- Enjoy a tasty Thai meal in Leblon, bump by chance into a former working colleague and invite him to sip a Chopp Escura at the "Devassa" bar in order to toast on our small world (Hey Oli, thanks for taking our Liquid Force kites back to Switzerland for exchange!).
- Visit the Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi, designed by the famous Architect Nimeyer, refuse to visit the art gallery itself, in order to spend the money in the inspiring cafeteria beneath for the best Iced Cappucino in the world.
- Wake up early and go to the pulsating Praça of Leblon to do a Tai Chi Chuan training with Master Marcio (Yang Style Tai Chi in Brasil). Refuel your body with a big cup of icy and healthly Açai at the nearest Suco Bar.
- Feel the dark side, get stressed and angry after spending days and days to clear up and save the photos and write the travel reports, compare the expenditures with the budget, and prepare the ongoing itinerary and logistics, instead of hanging out on Ipanema Beach to relax on Caipirinhas and watch all the wonderfully shaped people.
- Jogg along the Beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana on a Sunday, when traffic is prohibited and all kinds of Cariocas (people from Rio) present themselves as slalom poles on the typical ornaments of the cobblestone walkway.
- Go kitesurfing the wind at Barra de Tijuca Beach to compare it with the tradewinds in Northeast Brazil back in January and be convinced that it is worth carrying the gear all the way to Tahiti and Australia...
- Sit out on the street in front of Copacabana's Bip Bip bar and listen to the seductive Bossa Nova gigs that will always recall the wonderful times in Rio.
Our heart tells us that Rio might be the climax of our trip. In any case, this will be a major turning point on our epic journey, as we will now leave the Atlantic coast and head inland to the Argentinan Pampa and the Andean Tibet.
Hey internauts, hope you realized from our Rio photo set that the picture quality has improved. In fact we've got a new digital camera from Jordi, who kindly brought us an affordable model from Barcelona. Jordi, you are a star!!! And there is Yannick, who left us his home-key to do all the necessary internet work for free! We hope he'll not forget to look inside his freezer...
SO, NOW IT'S UP TO YOU INTERNAUTS TO SAY THANKS TO THE GUYS LIKE FRANÇOISE, YANNICK, JORDI AND ALL THE OTHERS WHO PROVIDED ALL THE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE THIS 2BUMBLEB-BLOG A DREAMSITE!!! YOU, WHO HAVE MANAGED TO READ THIS ARTICLE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, PLEASE INVEST 60 SECONDS, CLICK ON THE "COMMENT"-LINK JUST BELOW, AND LEAVE A LITTLE MESSAGE (if you have no blogger identity, just choose "anonymous" after having signed with your name in the textfield, and click on the "publish"-button).
MAY YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, TOO!
Rio De Janeiro, The Marvellous City, has caught our hearts! It already felt like getting home, as we crossed the huge bridge over the Guanabara Bay and for the first time sighted the vibrant city embedded between the Sugar Loaf Mountain and the Corcovado Rock. Our friend Françoise, who works for the Pan-American Games 2007 in Rio, is kindly hosting us in her flat in Leblon, at the far end of Ipanema Beach. Thanks to her we can enjoy the real life in Rio! Oh, sorry, without the stress of work, of course...
Let us just describe a few fragments of our rather addictive sight-enjoying activities:
- Visit an open-air Samba club and let the vibes drain your blood vessels in order to synchronize with the adventurous rhythm of life in Rio.
- Feel like the Christo Redentor Statue on Corcovado, and enjoy the show of the humid seabreeze and the setting sun playing with the clouds to constantly recreate new 360º sceneries of Rio.
- View the surprised faces of all the tourists visiting the top of the Sugar Loaf Mountain by cablecar on our arrival by foot with our brilliant climbing guide Fabio (climber's website)
- Feel like a looser after having joined the fan-ranks of the "Flamengo" team in the Maracana - football stadium and viewed the 999th goal of Romario, for the "Vasco da Gama" team.
- Feel like a bird sailing in the sea-breeze along the Pedra de Gavea Mountain and attacking a free-fall with recordholder Marcio's double-place hangglider towards the beach of Sao Conrado (Easyflyrio).
- Enjoy a tasty Thai meal in Leblon, bump by chance into a former working colleague and invite him to sip a Chopp Escura at the "Devassa" bar in order to toast on our small world (Hey Oli, thanks for taking our Liquid Force kites back to Switzerland for exchange!).
- Visit the Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi, designed by the famous Architect Nimeyer, refuse to visit the art gallery itself, in order to spend the money in the inspiring cafeteria beneath for the best Iced Cappucino in the world.
- Wake up early and go to the pulsating Praça of Leblon to do a Tai Chi Chuan training with Master Marcio (Yang Style Tai Chi in Brasil). Refuel your body with a big cup of icy and healthly Açai at the nearest Suco Bar.
- Feel the dark side, get stressed and angry after spending days and days to clear up and save the photos and write the travel reports, compare the expenditures with the budget, and prepare the ongoing itinerary and logistics, instead of hanging out on Ipanema Beach to relax on Caipirinhas and watch all the wonderfully shaped people.
- Jogg along the Beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana on a Sunday, when traffic is prohibited and all kinds of Cariocas (people from Rio) present themselves as slalom poles on the typical ornaments of the cobblestone walkway.
- Go kitesurfing the wind at Barra de Tijuca Beach to compare it with the tradewinds in Northeast Brazil back in January and be convinced that it is worth carrying the gear all the way to Tahiti and Australia...
- Sit out on the street in front of Copacabana's Bip Bip bar and listen to the seductive Bossa Nova gigs that will always recall the wonderful times in Rio.
Our heart tells us that Rio might be the climax of our trip. In any case, this will be a major turning point on our epic journey, as we will now leave the Atlantic coast and head inland to the Argentinan Pampa and the Andean Tibet.
Hey internauts, hope you realized from our Rio photo set that the picture quality has improved. In fact we've got a new digital camera from Jordi, who kindly brought us an affordable model from Barcelona. Jordi, you are a star!!! And there is Yannick, who left us his home-key to do all the necessary internet work for free! We hope he'll not forget to look inside his freezer...
SO, NOW IT'S UP TO YOU INTERNAUTS TO SAY THANKS TO THE GUYS LIKE FRANÇOISE, YANNICK, JORDI AND ALL THE OTHERS WHO PROVIDED ALL THE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE THIS 2BUMBLEB-BLOG A DREAMSITE!!! YOU, WHO HAVE MANAGED TO READ THIS ARTICLE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, PLEASE INVEST 60 SECONDS, CLICK ON THE "COMMENT"-LINK JUST BELOW, AND LEAVE A LITTLE MESSAGE (if you have no blogger identity, just choose "anonymous" after having signed with your name in the textfield, and click on the "publish"-button).
MAY YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, TOO!
posted by Patrick Jeannerat at 4/05/2007 09:45:00 PM
6 Comments:
After Australia, Bresil shall be the next country to visit !!!!!!
un besito grande,
val
Hallo Padi
Schön mal wieder etwas von Dir zu hören (danke für das E-Mail). Euer Blog gefällt mir - irgendwann will ich auch mal nach Brasilien reisen. Werde aber noch etwas warten, bis unsere kleine gut laufen kann ... Und nun geht's weiter - bin gespannt auf die Berichte aus Argentinien. Bei uns wird es nun auch warm und sonnig - das Leben verlagert sich wieder langsam nach draussen ...
Danke für euren Blog und Gruss, Kai
Hi Padi and Anh-Dao!
I just slide-showed your Rio photo album, and it really makes me wanna go on the internet and search for flight tickets right now!(In Holland we also call this study-avoiding activities)
Last week Merijn and me both had our first interview to go on with our serious lives...quite hard I must say. But today the weather is great, we can even go outside without a jacket ;)
I am curios about the photos of the Pampa, because we didn't go there. Well, I wish you all the luck and of course lots of fun!!
Un beso, Hanneke
Ciao Cari,
nice to read about you, from time to time... life is pretty sweet at the Lugano lake too, winds of change blowing and all.
hey there! nice to read about your adventures and view your pics. The world is kind of small. While you write about your experiences up on 4000m, it reminds me of Xinjiang :-)
Take care and read soon again:-)
love
sis
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