Best of Brazil

I am currently in Bolivia (I realize I haven’t been on top of updating my next destination via my blog) and loving it.  It’s only been a couple of days, and I don’t feel ready to describe it yet; in fact, I don’t think there are any words in the English language that could adequately describe the landscape and the people.

I’m eating well on about $3 USD a day, trying to speak Spanish (looking into taking a course), and bracing myself for the next place, Potosi, the world’s highest city.

Below is an incomplete list of some of my favorites in Brazil.  I figure I’ll do a list for each South American country that I visit.

Rio’s version of botelloning (aka, drinking outside)

Running culture in Rio (nobody stares at you like they do in other cities in SA)

All-you-can-eat sushi in Liberdade neighborhood in Sao Paolo

Sao Paolo loyalty

Bodies in Rio–simply insane!

Tapioca= best street food in Brazil

Sweet, caramel corn with condensed milk

Quiejo coehlo= grilled cheese on a skewer with oregano and molasses (typical and highly addictive beach snack)

Vendors on Salvador’s beaches

craftsmen in Salvador

Mercado Municipal in Sao Paolo

Vik Muniz exhibit in MASP

dessert carts

drinking coconut water straight out of the coconut on the beach in Rio and Salvador

acaraje=shrimp fritters

late night beach, ahem, festivities in Rio

the Rio accent

befriending Nilda in Sao Paolo

boat trip in Arraial de Cabo

making it out of Lencois alive

clubbing till 6 AM in Rio

swimming in the rain in Salvador

lingering restaurants (table-turning doesn’t exist)

Azul airlines’ (Jetblue’s sister company) unlimited snacks (far cry from JetBlue practices)

the hospitable, warm, gregarious people