Yesterday’s dinner knocked me out: a typical Brazilian evening at a local Churrascaria. We had a lot of meat (and I mean a LOT), some great wine from Argentina (Malbec from the Mendoza region) and nice talks. Today, I was planning to visit the Cataracas of Iguacu, the famous waterfalls, on the Brazilian site. Usually, I […]
Brazil – São Paulo to San Matías
Day 7: Itaipu – The World’s Largest Generator of Renewable Clean Energy
Waking up in the morning and especially getting out of my warm, comfortable sleeping bag was not easy. At this time, I was glad to have made the purchase! The temperature scale dropped from yesterday’s 4 degrees to 0 to 2 degrees Celcius. Today’s plan was to visit Itaipu, the world’s largest generator of renewable […]
Day 6: Cascavel to Foz do Iguacu
I should have been checking the weather forecast yesterday since this morning I got surprised by a bad weather front. Not only was it raining down cats and dogs but it was also freezing cold when I left Cascavel… 4 ° Celsius! This is not Brazil!
Day 5: Ponta Grossa to Cascavel
Today I was planning to make half the trip between Ponta Grossa and Foz do Iguazu, staying possibly in a smaller city on my way. A plan is only a guideline and I ended up somewhere else…
Day 4: Curitiba to Ponta Grossa
The first thing this morning (after my delicious breakfast of course 🙂 was to organize my carda verde, lol. Or at least the raw media… surely, I also had to buy a complete package of 50 sheets of paper since single purchases were not possible. At least one sorrow less… I did not want to […]
Day 3: Curitiba – The Struggle is Real
Curitiba… I was already afraid the city could be similar to Sao Paulo and its huge sky scrapers and millions of people. I got pleasantly surprised to find a beautiful, tranquilo city with layed back people. The opposite of Sao Paulo… Still what happened next was a shock!