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I went on a tour of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro.  Rocinha is the biggest “favela” in all of Latin America.  Favela is the Brazilian term for a shanty town or ghetto.  The reported population of the neighborhood is in between 200,000 to 300,000.  This is not the favela from the movie City of God, however part of it is used for the documentary entitled News from a Personal War.  First I felt strange going on the tour…generally tourists should not be viewing a poor n…

One of the most attractive activity in Brazil and particularly Rio is Samba, the famous Brazilian dance. Almost all people visiting Brazil seek to see Samba. It's not difficult as you can see it by chance in street parties. However, most of people will spend at least one night in Samba club.According to tourist interests, there are numerous Samba clubs in Rio hosting tourists, but what you'll see there is some kind of show as many foregin people are involved in the scene.Since I had many Braz…

My dreaded last day in Brazil had finally come. I was very sad to leave such a fantastic and beautiful country. As we were eating breakfast, a sarong vendor walked by on the sidewalk below. I accidentally made eye contact and he took this as a sign that I wanted to buy a sarong. So he kept holding up various sarongs for me to look at. He waved them around and smiled at me through the window. I couldn't hold in my laughter because I don't know why he would think I would put down my fork …

Throughout my life I’ve been fascinated by anything to do with aircraft and flying. So, when the opportunity presented itself for me to take a tandem hang glider flight during a visit to Rio de Janeiro I couldn’t resist. After a short bus ride from Rio I arrived at Pepino Beach where I hooked up with a couple of Brazilian guys with an old Volkswagon which had a disassembled, red hang glider secured to the roof. As we drove up the steep winding road to the platform at the summ…

July 17th - We got up and went to the bus station to catch our 1pm bus to Rio. We got on at 1.30pm and it was full.  Emma was sat in front of Neil.  We went straight to the Argentinian border crossing where we were waiting for 1hr for everyone to get a stamp in their passport.  The Brazilian border crossing was much quicker. Once we were through the borders the lady next to Emma moved for some reason so we had seats together.  We were then both given a massive lunch as we …

Rio was our second stop in Brazil and we arrived to Rio from Sao Paulo. Before leaving Denmark I remember all the scary stories that people told us about Rio. " Watch out for pickpockets, robberies etc." First of all our Brazilian friends from Sao Paulo could also give us some pieces of good advise and second of all it was not our first time in Rio. By the way, it seems very logic that we can't  behave in the same way as in Denmark.We visited Rio in 2005, and we were not s…

My trip to Brasil 2008 !!!

We arrived in Rio first thing in the morning on saturday 23 february,and grapped a taxi at the airport to take us to our apartment in  the arpoador area of rio, which was quite close to the hotel rio sofitel. So the sun was out when the taxi dropped us off in what was a nice part  of rio between copa cobanna and ipanema. We got into our marvelous apartment which was appropiately called www.riobootypalace.com

Well, after that week-end full of novelties for me, I had to go to my work conference from Monday to Thursday. It was pretty interesting as well, with very friendly people, and I managed to learn even more about Brasil.The conference was held at Hotel Gloria which is located in Gloria, just in front of Parque de Flamengo. The hotel is really cool, with two pools and beautiful surroundings. One of the managers of the hotel was also really nice and we kind of became friends, that's cool to make…

Rio was simply amazing. Food was as good as they said, the weather was mixed due to the winter season, hotel was nice and secluded, majority of the people were friendly, Corcovado and Sugarloaf is a must see.

Countless laughs, 32 new friends, 7 weeks, 5 countries, and 1 girlfriend from a different continent later my Budget Expeditions came to an end in Rio.  This was this best tour I have ever done.  As with all life experiences memories are made more so by the people and the weather rather than the actual places.  Not to take away from the amazing places that we saw along the way but I was lucky to get such a great group to enjoy south america with.  The overlan…

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It's my last day in Rio and I still have to see two of its most famous sights:  Sugar Loaf Mountain and Christ the Redeemer! My friends and I agreed to meet up at 7:45 this morning to head to Sugar Loaf.  We took a hotel car over and were the first in line that morning!  It was a beautiful, sunny day -- so glad the rain had finally stopped.  The rock in Sugar Loaf seems to be a lot like Stone Mountain in Georgia or Enchanted Rock in Texas -- granite schist. …

Brazil... If u hav'nt been u need to go. The trip started in Ilah Grande wich is in island in the state of rio where there is no cars allowed, only boats. Than i stayed in rio surfing some of the beaches around the area before we headed to Sacuarema... A little surf village north of Rio. Than back to Rio

Rio de Janeiro (Hee-oh) was a great chance for us to settle into the country, try and learn a few words in Portuguese, discover all about the Angolan slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries but to mainly do bugger all and lie on Copacabana beach for two days sipping cerveza and caipirinhas.   We actually didn’t do any of the above.   We spent a day in taxis and cable cars ascending the hill on which the big Christ the Redeemer statue (Corcovado) stands and also the Sugar lo…