It seems we are a lot more busy here with the Carnival than I expected so I probably will not have time for many blog updates here. However at least we are having a lot of fun here partying with the rest of the city. The last two days we dedicated to the more informal street parades and parties where most of the locals celebrate the carnival but tonight and to morrow we are going for the more formal and extravagant celebrations. Tonight we go to the Sabodrome, wh...

Its been a long time since I last wrote on the blog because our last weeks of travel have been very stressed as we tried to cram in as many experiences as possible in the remaining time. We have also spent much of the time in the jungle and Pantanal away from internet communication. Now however we have finally made it to Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro where we stay for the last ten days of the trip to relax a bit before going home to cold Denmark. Here we wil...

After the Pantanal we went to a small city a few hundred kilometers further south. It was not in the guidebook but we had met a Danish couple who after 3 month in south america still considered one of the most fantastic nature experiences they had had. We got there in the afternoon after having spent the whole day on busses and quickly found a tour agency near our hostel which booked us on a 2½ hour snorkling trip the next morning. Even though we had been tempte...

As we arrived in Brazil we arrived in the old border town of Corumbá.One of the first impressions we had when entering the portugese speaking Brazil after beeing so used to Spanish was that everybody suddenly seemed to be speaking Spanish with a very thick Dutch accent. This was a bit funny, but also quite hard to understand. Corumbá is today a small city on the border of Rio Paraguay at the border to Bolibvia. Even the citys railroad, which had once been...