Steve Meanders Around South America

Follow my progress as I travel around the southern Americas for 4 months.....

Rio de Janeiro + Carnival

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Rio de Janeiro + Carnival

Updated 1 March 2010

The Amazon, Brazil

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The Amazon, Brazil

Added 28 March 2010

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Rio, Brazil

Rio, Brazil

OK, so final South American destination was Rio de Janeiro. What a city! The sea and mountains merge together in a sweeping and irregular pattern and the city itself sits in the valleys in between. It's for this reason that you never feel like you're in a large city, especially if you stay at the Copacabana like I did. After my second longest bus ride (20 hours) I arrived in Rio at lunch… Read more »