Subject: Post: <p>Yesterday evening we had a short walk to Ipanema area to check out the carnival, but didn't find much. Just more excellent banana juice and a lot of people drinking heavily and the city looking a bit like a warzone due to garbage..</p><p>Today I woke up feeling even worse than yesterday, and the 38C fever didn't disappear even if I stayed sleeping in the hostel while the others went out in the morning. In the afternoon I decided that it would be better to visit a doctor here in Rio before going to smaller villages, just in case the flu would need antibiotics or something. I looked up a private clinic partnered by my travel insurance company and me and Iryna headed there by taxi.</p><p>Couple of hours of waiting, a blood test and an x-ray at a high-class private hospital and I was released from there with prescription for a couple of symptom-relieving medications. Just a viral infection, no signs of bacterial infection so it is just a flu which will heal eventually by itself. By the way, healtcare services seem to be cheaper in here than I was afraid of, around 70€ for that set of examinations. Some of the South American countries are as expensive as the USA, but probably not Brazil then as that clinic (Clínica São Vicente) was definitely one of the most expensive ones in the city.</p><p>After being released we were supposed to go to Lapa to check out the carnival near the Sambodrome area and meet up with Lyudmyla somewhere over there. Well.. That didn't exactly go so well. When we approached Lapa by bus the entire sky was lighted by continuos lightning and heavy rain begun. All our cellphones and other navigation devices were out of battery power, and while wondering where we should go out we had already passed Lapa area.</p><p>The rain was so heavy that there was no point in going out, and we decided to stay in the bus to return home as most buses in Rio run circular routes. This one obviously did not, the final stop was in northern Rio.. Luckily near the final stop of the metro, so we just took the metro line from end to end to finally be back in the hostel and in our cool "sea-view suite" (check the picture).</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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