Curitiba for two nights and the Serra Verde Train

Trip Start Sep 28, 2010

Trip End Apr 11, 2011

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Palace Hotel

Flag of Brazil Curitiba, State of Parana, Brazil
Friday, December 3, 2010

We stayed in Curitiba for 2 nights to get further along in our journey. The town has a population of 1.5 million, but does not seem as crowded as Porto Alegre.

We stayed in the downtown area at the Palace Hotel, it was nice enough...it is in an old mansion from the 1800's. We had a balcony that looked over the street and it was nice to people watch. We had a TV but we REALLY don't unerstand ANYTGHING at all right now since they do not speak english or spanish ONLY portuguese!! Vic and I look at each other and have to use alot of sign language. We have learned a few helpful words... Bom dia (good morning), Obri gado (thank you), Oy (hello) and Vic's favorite...ovo (egg) for breakfast. When you hear it, it sounds like a eastern european language.

We relaxed for a day and bought tickets the following day for our train ride to the town of Morettes that would get us closer to the beaches.

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Scenes along the way	LONG bus rides	Map of the area that we are in	Sunset along the way
Food cart at night	Scene from our balcony	French doors fo the balcony	Miko and Paco in their bag
A park in Curitiba	Fountain in the park	Downtown Curitiba	Flower shop in town
Downtown is beautiful	Volkswagon bus with Vic's initials	Getting on the train to Morettes	Poster of the train
Bus stations	scene of Curutiba	Our train snack	The train ride
Wild wisteria along the way	A small dam	Crossing a bridge	We are high up in the mountains
Going through the tunnels	Scenes along the way	Waterfalls in the mountains	the train ride
Workers along the train tracks	Train station along the way	Abandoned place in the jungle	Coming into Morettes
Train ride