Do Curitiba: best CouchSurfing Experience Ever!

Have spent a week now in Curitiba, which is 8h to the south of Sao Paulo, one of the rare capitals not to be on the coast of Brasil. It is the most European of all Brasilian cities (which shows in the fact that it is raining most of the time ;-).

I am staying with a host family from Couch Surfing.com and they have been great: from basic needs like house, food and washing the clothes (and internet!), to treats and pleasure like visiting waterfalls, spending the weekend at their countryhouse, just amazing! It is so nice to get the family feeling after having spent a couple of weeks by myself and hanging out with other random people.


Rafael, myself and sister (James Bond girl sihouette) Carolina
We're just shadows of our former selves...


First time in my life I touched and held a kolibri (humming bird?)... It was still tiny, and learning how to fly. Dried it because of the rain before it flew off again...

Beautiful sunset....

So, now for further plans: am leaving out THE tourist attraction of South America, Foz da Iguaco, the Niagara falls of the south, cause, well, it's raining, bus ride pretty expensive and I would prefer doing it with some special company...
So, off to the south soon in a short time: Florianopolis - Porto Alegre (where I want to check out this NGO where I could volunteer startting March) and then through Urugay to Buenes Aires (Argentina) and a quick stop in Santiago (Chili) before flying to Salvador de Bahia (back in the center of Brasil) to spend Carnaval there in the best of companies...