Rio de Janeiro Travel Blogs

After a hard day (especially the night) I needed the wake up call really badly in order to wake up. I stood up and my head wasn’t killing me, but wasn’t all right either. I was smart and before going to bed I left all my clothes ready for the next day and almost packed everything, because we we…

  Remarkable Rio de Janeiro - Enjoy Backdrop, Beaches & Beauties   Below is a poem written by Sonia Paz Baron-Vine in 2006 about the remarkable city of Rio de Janeiro. It captures some of the beauty, sounds, nature and magic of this one-of-a-kind place.   Dawn in R…

Cool and rainy day kept me from enjoying one final beach day in Rio.  That is ok, because in a few days i will be in the Greek isles. Took a bus to the airport from a street close to the hostel.  This was actually kind of difficult, because the buses came at you pretty fast, and if you d…

I got married in Rio de Janeiro, and spent the honeymoon in Brazil and Argentina

Who is he? He sits at the right hand of God, he can walk on water, he comes back from the dead and best of all he turns water into wine! If i could patent his last ability i would be a very rich man indeed. So the man of the moment has many other hidden talents to say the leas…

You can forget the lighting up Sydney harbour with fireworks and dropping the ball in Times Square New York, when 2 million people wander down to Copacabana beach in Rio De Janeiro they set the benchmark for how to celebrate the end of one year and the start of the new one. An absolutely awes…

Definitely my best day in Rio.  With only one day left, I still had a lot of stuff I needed to see.  I started in Ipanema Beach, one block from the hotel.   It's world famous, and so much has already been written about it, there's no point in going on in a blog.  Let's just say …

KERRY - What can i say except Rio is the best! Sun, sand and surfing as well as caiparinias and beautiful people. Rio has it all and is the most stunning city I have ever been to. I was pretty nervous about coming here though, as a lot of people along the way had told us to be careful when we…

Leaving central Rio by bike is easy. Some 20 km of biketracks along beach after beach through hightly guarded luxuy neighborghoods. As the beach gets more natural and the steep cliffs almost touch the sea it is like riding through a festival with people enjoying sun, music and beer everywhere.…

My trip to Brasil

One more nice morning, drinking coffee in a great café, having a nice (outdoor) lunch. Then of to the airport. From hot Brasil back to cold Europe. Snow in Paris (next morning connecting flight Charles de Gaulle), very clear sights of The Netherlands, arriving at blue sky Schiphol - Amsterdam. …

We all arrived separately, so it was a happy reunion with my friends on the 22nd floor of Building G, in the Morado do Sol condominium complex.  I'm not sure what the big deal was, but no one could believe I had made it in high heels.  I was just in time, because Beto and Luis, our neighb…

Arrived in Foz de Iguassu and quickly decided that I needed to sacrifice seeing the falls from the Brazilian side and get a flight to Rio de Janeiro as quickly as possible to try and do my number 1 destination of South America justice. Managed to get a decent price for the flight and was …

The trip started with a drive down to Heathrow. Thinking we had plenty time to get there we set off at midnight. Little did we know that there was road works for the majority of the way! Having arrived at the airport, we met up with Craig who was coming with us, as they called out the flight number…

My trip with my friend Meagan to Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls, and Rio de Jenairo in October 2007