To be continued - South America

How is it possible that my time in Brazil is almost over? I only have ten more days in Rio - what the hell?  As it seems, there is and will never be enough time to spent at some place beautiful. The last two weeks I spent quite some time working on the Bachelor Thesis. At least I am quite confident that I'll manage to finish it next week so that I can enjoy the rest of my travels - free-minded. Working a lot didn't mean that I didn't do something fun. So, thanks to a national holiday, I already left Rio on Thursday and went to Ilha Grande which is aorund three hours west of Rio.  As there's plenty to do on the island, it was perfect that I had an extra day to spend on it. Ilha Grande is known for diving, the atlantic forest and the hidden beaches only reachable by foot. So, I started the trip with a couple of dives. It’s a beautiful spot for diving with big rock formations covered in corals and home to sea horses (first photo), turtles, many (and huge) crb...

It was the last week for Rebekka, so we enjoyed ourselves a lot this week. We went to the Lab of the Hanggliding Instructor which was very interesting. The Lab is located in the largest (public) University-Clinic in Rio. It's a bit outside of town in the north of Rio. The hospital is very old and that's also what you see. Very old constructions and just not very welcoming. We  met the team he was working with and did some experiments with virtual reality and heart rate observation which was fun and, again, very interesting. In the evening we took a Samba Class. It was so much fun! I am thinking about taking another few! Also, it was incredibly exhausting to try to keep up to the speed of the music and my muscles were quite sore the next day. In the end we also tried it with some parts of the actual Carnival Costums (you see them in the pictures) which didn't work that well. The costums weight a lot, so it is hard to find a good balance... After the class, we went to a bar...