Brazil Review

I'm just waiting for my taxi to the airport before I fly to Chile so I thought now is a good time to do my review of Brazil;

Watch a Brazilian football match, see some of Brazil's wildlife, go to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, attend the Rio Carnival and visit Christ The Redeemer. Those are the five things I wanted to do before I arrived here and I was lucky enough to do all of them.

It has been great to do all of those things and The Pantanal was fantastic but Rio has not been quite what I expected. The Carnival has meant that the streets have been absolutely covered with litter and there has been the constant smell of hot rubbish and wee because the really hot weather heats it all up in the day. Urgh (It has been a while since some disgusting news!). I have also been the victim of crime as someone in Brazil has cloned my credit card and it's now blocked!

Despite all those things not being very nice, the other travellers we have met and the people we have stayed with have been so kind and lovely. We are both looking forward to Chile now though as it is a little bit cooler and less humid (Rio has been just under 40 degrees every day and not much cooler at night).

The Photo: These are some steps near where we stayed in Rio. They were decorated by an artist called Jorge Selarón who used many coloured tiles in his work. Tourists even used to bring him tiles to use and you can find different tiles from many different countries, even England!