Sao Paulo & Paraty

Small update: since we did not manage to get pictures from the beautiful town of Paraty please, check out the link - the place is wonderful...perfect for retirement :)

It is quite a trip to Lima by bus from Cusco - it took 21 hours and to certain extent was quite funny. The road winds so much that I have slept holding a plastic bag tight in case I have to vomit...it was a close call but we both survived without having to use it. Actually when we boarded the bus I have somehow not taken it into consideration that the trip is going to be quite hard on us. Since I have been running all day and did not have not to eat - the first thing I did on the bus is had a 1 liter of strawberry yogurt and a big bag of chips. I regretted it very much afterward...

We arrived though on time and already feeling quite ok since the last six hours of the trip where on Pan American highway which is a stretch of straight road by the coast. Another good thing about arriving to Lima again is that we have felt somehow much more self confident...we have been already staying in Peru for three months and we developed some home feeling. We had an excellent dinner in one of the most amazing shopping malls in Miraflores: the three floor building is carved in the ocean side rocks with a magnificent view over the waves. Tomek had his red meat and Rita her ceviche, raw fish marinated in lime, hmmm, jummy! Survining the night in our hostel with earplugs we headed at 5 am to the airport full of expectations to see Greg and his girlfriend in Brazil, Sao Paulo.

We had personalized choice of 32 different movies on the plane (economy class, LAN, which we still enjoy as frequent fliers from our previous jobs...) and we ended up both independently choosing Sex and the City!!!!

After 6 hours waiting at the airport of a city, where more people live than in whole Hungary, we finally got all together and headed to our hostel. Sao Paulo for us was a place to escape from with its prices and urban jungle with very little attraction to our taste, but we enjoyed the first experiments of making ourselves understood in a Portuguese speaking country in Spanish :)

So we were on the bus the next day towards Rio, with a stop in the old colonial town of Paraty, which is a real gem. What we missed in Sao Paulo we found in Paraty with its colonial old town, lovely beaches and carpirinas! So we headed to a boat trip with island hopping, snorkling and most of all stretching ourselves on the sun, a real treat. Though the weather is not always friendly to us with rain pouring like in Macondo, we feel like being in Paradise. Brazil is like a dream come true!!!