- Churrascira (Brazil BBQ) is a buffet for less than $5 USD you get all you can eat. The meat guy brings around and slices meat at your table until you cannot have any more. Yummy!
- They are sharing & social people. At a resteraunt, they serve beer in large bottles (600 ml) and bring you small glasses to share with your friends. Its odd to them to order your own beer and drink it all yourself.
- The beautiful people (they are everywhere)
- Landscape - we have seen much through the side of our bus windows and it is green and lush. The dirt is a red-brown and has altered the color of our flip flops, but it makes for an excellent contrast. The deep green hues and lush trees vs. the red of the rocks and ground.
- Beaches ~Impanema is my favorite!
- Rio de Janero
- Waterfalls- not only does Igazu totally kick butt, we were able to go swimming in 6 or 7 other ones in various parts of Brazil. This has been my favorite activity while in Brazil.
- Coxina - a little ball of chicken that is fried with something. Yummy! totally awful for you to eat no doubt.
- Its realtively cheap here (we have lived on $60 usd a day)
- the ´angels´that have come to our rescue along the way -- when we were unable to communicate in Portugese and were lucky enough to come to our aid.
- Havaianas
Things I wont miss:
- Plastic napkins (seriously, if its not absorbant what is the point???)
- You cant flush toliet paper down the toliet ... you must put it in a trashcan next to the toliet
- Couples (old, young, teenagers, whatever) make out EVERYWHERE here. Waiting for the bus, walking down the street, at a resteraunt, EVERYWHERE.
- All the food is salty and rather unhealthy (with the exception of the delicious tropical fruit).
- Wierd shower heads that I could possibly electricute myself with.
- Extremely few and far between English speakers.
ps. more pics in the same old album ... I will be starting a new one soon!
Hey there, Elizabeth. Good to hear all is well. So how many miles do you think you have traveled so far? Brazil is a rather large country, no? All those bus rides sounds epic. It is interesting how few Brazilians speak English--they are one of the countries to watch in the coming years--growing economy and tons of people. What languages do they speak? Any Chinese? Because that would be rather telling.
ReplyDeletethe young people here speak English. I have not seen anything about Chinese, but its hard to gauge since I do not speak Chinese either. I have no idea how many miles weve traveled, but think it has been a lot. Brazil is the 6th largest country in the world and we spent at least 4 days on buses (granted, most were overnight buses) but that is a LOT of miles. I will have to try and calculate some miles or KMs to see.
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