Rockin and Rollin in Rio "Carnaval"

Well well, Brazil has its worldwide fame for the annual "Carnaval" during lent season, and it sure has good reason to claim this...

Im still recovering from the utter mayhem and madness that goes with the Brazilian Carnaval. Rio De Janeiro was our destination, a crazy but excellent experience at this Samba fest.

The Brazilians here in Rio seem to adore three things during this period, and nothing else really comes into play; 1. Samba, 2. Alcohol, and 3. Women (not in that order of course.)

This place just insanely erupts to party for 7 days and 7 nights, and we got a good taster of the real thing. As you can see from photos of we got in the sambadrome (a massive open air stadium purpose-built for the parades area in Rio where samba schools parade in competitions each year during the Carnival. There were 10s of thousands of Brazilians and foreign tourists. I couldn't recommend more to everyone to at least try and experience one Brazilian Carnival in their lifetime. One of the craziest weeks of my life!

Some photos below of the Sambadrown event, in downtown Rio De Janeiro.

Shedding the winter skin

Well after moving away from the snowy Andes mountains, we moved on up to Buenos Aires again to made our way to Brazil. Since its back to the piping hot weather, i have finally got rid of the beardy boy look, and shaved it all off. It was fine in the cold winter weather down south Argentina/Chile, but not in this sticky heat.

A before and after look, no snearing comments now!!!

Beardyboy & Cleanboy:
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We've hooked up with so many people along the trip, there are so many Brazilians and Israelis traveling throughout Argentina and Chile.

We were riding the Uruguayan coast for a bit, trough Colonia and Punto Del Este then breaking over the boarder to Florianopilis, Brazil (a 16hour bus ride, nasty!!) where we are now, and then over land to Rio. Punto Del Este is a beach/coastal city. Its supposed to be prity much dead in the off peak season, but its so fucking alive now! If your not into eating, drinking and worshiping the sun, then this aint a place to come, but I'm happy with all 3. ... and once again - the women. un-fucking-believable. Not an ounce of exaggeration here, but its hard to find any Latin ladies that aren't good looking.

Right leaving you on that note, its time to go back to work; chilling on the beach in Florianopilis, on the southern east coast of Bazil, admiring the very pleasant scenery.