Paraguay from Brazil via Iguaçu

We decided to use some of our time in Iguaçu Falls to drive to Paraguay from Brazil so that we could knock another country off of our list. Traffic was too intense so instead of driving us over the bridge to Paraguay from Brazil, the guide parked and we walked it instead (it turned out to be…

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Iguazu Falls – 3 Days in Paradise

After a LATAM flight from GIG to IGU, we arrived in In Iguazu Falls (Foz do Iguacu) around 5PM. We found a taxi to take us all to the Iguassu Eco Hostel that the guys were staying at (I booked a hotel in the city center because the hostel didn’t have any private rooms available)…

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Exploring Santa Teresa – Day 1

I made it to GIG, found a taxi, and was on my way towards exploring Santa Teresa, and artsy district in Rio de Janeiro. I had arranged the taxi for R85 (the exchange rate was around 3.1 Reais for every 1 USD) after declining to book the fixed rate prepay fare inside the airport for…

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Flying to Rio – Day 0

My visa and passport came via FedEx overnight from Travisa the morning of October 7th, just in time to make my 310PM flight out of DEN so that I’d be flying to Rio ASAP. See more about that Visa process here. The only snafu was that my friend Tarek shipped a new mobile phone to…

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Getting a Brazilian Visa in a rush

I recently decided, quite last minute, that I would be traveling to Brazil, and that, to do this, I would need start the process of getting a Brazilian Visa. The idea of going to Brazil presented itself just a week and a half prior when my Egyptian friends invited me to join them for an…

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