South America 2007

So made it to Salvador with no accomodation booked at 4.30 in the morning, hmmm. But it was fine, found a hostel, a litte pricey but to be expected for last night of carnival and was happy not to have to sleep in the airport as had already missed 2 nights of sleep.

Met some grand Irish girls, (hi girlies - hope you made it to recife ok!) and some other randoms to enjoy carnival with. I was a bit aprehensive about personal saftey and muggers during carnival - but felt mega safe - the only problem really was the letchy men who try and grind up against you every opportunity and its hard to peel them off. Unfortunately have no pics of carnival as didnt want to risk getting mugged for my camera. Crime rate for carnival 2007 doubled from last year and there were even 2 shootings on the last night of carnival, the brazilians are mental.

The Tshirts required to enter the Blocos were really expensive so didnt buy one, thankfully, as still managed to get under the ropes, soon as the security saw us they would throw us out and we would creep back in again after 5 mins or so. The bloco we followed was Fat Boy Slim, how funny - the only foreign bloco in Salavdor and it was ramed.

Glad I managed to make carnival, was cool night, streets were jam packed with people partying to the max, the atmosphere was electric. Had some bizare moments on the beach. When nature calls, nature calls and where the girls pee - so do the tranvestites, need I say more? gross!

The women here also fight like men and the police treat them like men - sacrey stuff, you dont want to be waking up in a brazilian cell, although thats where I thought I was when I woke up this morning in my hostel. It was empty - I actually had a 10 bed dorm to myself - does everyone know something that I dont???