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Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

First day on our trip, exploring the neighbourhoods in Rio. Lili posing with the cute colourful boats. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
The waterfalls from the Argentinian side. 

Garganta del diablo

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

The same falls from the Brazilian side

Porto Alegre, Brazil

We spent one day in this very ugly city, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul is probably the only nice building in the whole city. This is the first, and probably the last, museum we visited on our trip. :)

Spending time in a park in Porto Alegre (with the homeless people in the background) :)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

We finally arrived to Buenos Aires, after spending 2 nights on buses. We are staying here until the 5th of October so we have plenty of time to explore the city and post more pictures later.  

Shopping mall with paintings in the ceiling.

The world famous Obelisco during night time.

You must be Swedish!

After three days in Rio we left for the Foz do Iguaçu waterfalls in the borders of Argentina, Brasil and Paraguay. Getting to the airport with a bus in Rio was a bit more complicated than we thought. First of all there were 3 different lanes where the bus drove, and none of them had any signs. When we had picked the right lane the next problem was to get the bus to stop. There were all the time about 5 buses at the bus stop and you had to run out between the buses to the big street and jump and wave and whistle (if you know how) to get the bus to notice you and stop. Fortunately we met a really nice guy who did this for us while we stood there watching his suicide mission. :)

We arrived here, in the middle of nowhere, where roosters, dogs and our weird room mates wake us up every day at 5 in the morning. Our smelly roomates' phone (a really loud symphony ringtone) rang every morning at 5.40 am, no idea why because we could not communicate with them at all. :)

Yesterday we saw the spectacular waterfalls from the Argentinian side. We took a boat ride to see the waterfalls closer by, and of course the boat driver took us underneath the falls, and we got completely, and we mean completely, wet! The feeling was like peeing in your pants, but cold :) We met a lovely old Australian couple in the nature park, who looked at us, and said, "oh, you must be Swedish!" This we kind of understand, but today, when visiting the falls from the Brasilian side we met a group of schoolkids who asked us if we are from Paraguay :) After communicating for a while in a mixture of handgestures, spanish and portuguese, with these 8 year old monkeys, we came to the conclusion that they only know the countries in South America. (And Justin Bieber) :)

Today is Lili's bday so we have to celebrate it somehow in the evening, which might be hard cos we are in the middle of nowhere and there's not much to do here :) Maybe we have to share a little bottle (1 liter) of local beer that we don't even like with our new kiwi friend! He's given us a lot of good tips for the rest of our time in South America.

We'll post pictures later.

Safe and sound in Rio

Efter två års planerande har vår resa nu äntligen börjat. Först måst vi nämna att hur duktiga vi är på att packa, båda hade 12 kg med sig i rinkan. Dessa 12 kg skall räcka för 5 månader. :)

Efter två långa flyg var vi dödströtta och spenderade första kvällen i en horrostila, visste inte mera vilket språk vi skulle tala med varandra. :)

Vi har stött på lite problem med språket, vi beställde fina "hallon" smoothien som visa sig vara en blandning av rödbeta, banan och mjölk. NAM :) annors har allt gått bra, imorgon skall vi bekanta oss med beachin och kanske fa och se på våra nya vänners (som vi träffade på flyget) VM street soccer match.