Quito - The End
3/7 Wed - 5/7 Sat
Back again in Quito for some last minute shopping and to meet La familia Ferro again... and of course some more sushi. This before we are flying back to sweden on Sunday the 6th of July.
Back again in Quito for some last minute shopping and to meet La familia Ferro again... and of course some more sushi. This before we are flying back to sweden on Sunday the 6th of July.
Los Roques - Paradise on earth
25/6 Wed - 1/7 Tue
Venezuela and Los Roques is only six hours from Rio and provide windsurfing, diving, snorkling and sunny days. After spending almost a day on Caracas airport sorting out flight tickets to Quito in the beginning of July and flight tickets to Los roques a 40 minutes flight in a tiny tiny airplane took us to the most beautiful beaches in the world and we do not exaggerate when saying this. There are no hotels on Los Roques only posadas which often include breakfast and dinner as well as they can make you a coolbox with food and drinks to bring to the beach. As there are only about 60 posadas on los roques this means it can not come to many tourist at the same time, meaning that you can get a island or a beach to your self if you want. Here we spent six days with constant sun, sunbathing, surfing and snorkeling and just enjoyed.
Incoming flight from Carracas
Northern keys - Snorkling with sea turtles
Espanky beach
Espanky beach - Tina under the umbrella
Krasky boat
Krasky - Fly fishing after Bone fish
Mr Callcenter and our new found friend - Josser
Krasky - Pelicano
Tina in hangmat after a fantastic lunch - botota cebiche and langousta
Game fishing - Crew finally awake!
The catch .... one tuna and two baracudas...
Cayo de Agua
Waves from two sides
Venezuela and Los Roques is only six hours from Rio and provide windsurfing, diving, snorkling and sunny days. After spending almost a day on Caracas airport sorting out flight tickets to Quito in the beginning of July and flight tickets to Los roques a 40 minutes flight in a tiny tiny airplane took us to the most beautiful beaches in the world and we do not exaggerate when saying this. There are no hotels on Los Roques only posadas which often include breakfast and dinner as well as they can make you a coolbox with food and drinks to bring to the beach. As there are only about 60 posadas on los roques this means it can not come to many tourist at the same time, meaning that you can get a island or a beach to your self if you want. Here we spent six days with constant sun, sunbathing, surfing and snorkeling and just enjoyed.
Incoming flight from Carracas
Northern keys - Snorkling with sea turtles
Espanky beach
Espanky beach - Tina under the umbrella
Krasky boat
Krasky - Fly fishing after Bone fish
Mr Callcenter and our new found friend - Josser
Krasky - Pelicano
Tina in hangmat after a fantastic lunch - botota cebiche and langousta
Game fishing - Crew finally awake!
The catch .... one tuna and two baracudas...
Cayo de Agua
Waves from two sides
Rio de Janeiro
18/6 Wed - 24/6 Tue
Brazilians say: God made the world in six days the seventh he devoted to Rio and after 19 hours on a bus from the falls we finally arrive here. The weather was great and the day started good but as most swedes know this was gonne become an awful day for us. So after the awful game, a little bit grumpy, we started to look for a hotel or hostel. We finally decided to check in to hotel Atlantis Copacabana inbetween Copacabana beach and Ipanema beach, as the hostels were not satisfactory enough in the mood we were. A nice hotel with a nice view from the pool at the roof, nice big rooms and only two minutes walk to both beaches suited our mood better. This for a cost of only 750 Sek per night we cold not be other than happy, POOR backpacker as we are. There is a lot of things to do in Rio but we are desperatly in need of some sun, bathing and surfing as we have not said hello to our beach wear since Punta Sal in Northern Peru. And sun we got for three days, three lovely days spent on the beach until late lunch after we became real tourists going to sugar loaf mountain and corcovado and the statue of Christ. On the third day we moved to Santa Teresa so we could more easy acces Rios best nightlife in Lapa during the weekend. Not bad at all.... On sunday it starts to rain and it still rains on monday when we go on a favela tour. A very interesting tour but we did probably not see the worst parts. The weather reports reveals that it will be raining on the whole coast of Brazile for the next seven days, so we decided to go somewhere else. So into a travel agencie we went and five hours later we left Rio on our way to Venezuela.
Rio from our hotell roof
Tina sun bathing at Ipanema beach
Surfer doing well
Surfer doing not so well...
Cable car up to Sugar Loaf mountain
View from Sugar Loaf over Copacabana
Corcovado montain and the Jesus Christ the redeemer
Sunset from Sugar Loaf
Surfers at Ipanema
Old men can still play volleyball
Old man explaining how important it is to pass the ball correctly
Fetch the ball after a play and flirts with an older couger...
The redeemers
A Favela south west of Ipanema
A customized power distribution in the Favela
Favela graffiti
Brazilians say: God made the world in six days the seventh he devoted to Rio and after 19 hours on a bus from the falls we finally arrive here. The weather was great and the day started good but as most swedes know this was gonne become an awful day for us. So after the awful game, a little bit grumpy, we started to look for a hotel or hostel. We finally decided to check in to hotel Atlantis Copacabana inbetween Copacabana beach and Ipanema beach, as the hostels were not satisfactory enough in the mood we were. A nice hotel with a nice view from the pool at the roof, nice big rooms and only two minutes walk to both beaches suited our mood better. This for a cost of only 750 Sek per night we cold not be other than happy, POOR backpacker as we are. There is a lot of things to do in Rio but we are desperatly in need of some sun, bathing and surfing as we have not said hello to our beach wear since Punta Sal in Northern Peru. And sun we got for three days, three lovely days spent on the beach until late lunch after we became real tourists going to sugar loaf mountain and corcovado and the statue of Christ. On the third day we moved to Santa Teresa so we could more easy acces Rios best nightlife in Lapa during the weekend. Not bad at all.... On sunday it starts to rain and it still rains on monday when we go on a favela tour. A very interesting tour but we did probably not see the worst parts. The weather reports reveals that it will be raining on the whole coast of Brazile for the next seven days, so we decided to go somewhere else. So into a travel agencie we went and five hours later we left Rio on our way to Venezuela.
Rio from our hotell roof
Tina sun bathing at Ipanema beach
Surfer doing well
Surfer doing not so well...
Cable car up to Sugar Loaf mountain
View from Sugar Loaf over Copacabana
Corcovado montain and the Jesus Christ the redeemer
Sunset from Sugar Loaf
Surfers at Ipanema
Old men can still play volleyball
Old man explaining how important it is to pass the ball correctly
Fetch the ball after a play and flirts with an older couger...
The redeemers
A Favela south west of Ipanema
A customized power distribution in the Favela
Favela graffiti
