Rio de Janeiro Travel Blogs - Page 2

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

So we didn't end up staying in buzios. Ben and i got trashed our one night there, and just hung out in this bar talking philosophy, which was fun. The enxt day was really jsut a day of traveling, going back to rio. The next day, tues, Ben and I went hanggliding in Tijuca national forest. that was S…

The Marvelous City

shitty weather on the 31st, that wasnt really a surprise after the last few days unfortunately... it was raining the whole day and of course only stopped for some minutes in the eveningbut nobody seemed to care, everyone prepared their white clothes carefully and got in the right mood for the bigge…

We did the usual routine yet again today. We slept in. Then went to our juice bar for Acerola and Acai juices. Then hung out on the beach - walking, people watching, window shopping the street vendors, etc. Then had a beer at Shenanigan's. Then another steakhouse buffet, of course.&n…

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…

Holiday to Brazil, hot hot hot!!!

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.Accordi…

This February I visited Brazil. In this beautiful country, I had many good experience and memory.  Brazil is famous for football, samba dancing and barbecue. When I had brazilian barbecue in US, I can't help thinking of this amazing country.   After put on sunscreen lotion, I head…

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 g…

I finally got the the holy land of Rio de Janeiro and after getting ripped off for a taxi from the bus station with the two aussie guys (we had to pay $R35 (£11) when actually the price should be about R$20), we had a look at Mellow Yellow hostel where Dixie and Adam had a reservation.  There…

Today I had a nice surprise from Yolie. She didn't tell me that she would send me another card. So, it was totally a surprise. The more surprising was the card was made by herself ;-) I feel flattered that I deserve her masterpiece ;-) Thanks Yolie.... you're the best (^0^)

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 hold…

well i visited Rio de Janeiro of course it was the carnival i was also in Sao Paulo and in Florineapolis i had great time in that big country 2 months is too short to know all is huge an the people are very friendly i miss many people i met there i miss them all this coming year before my trip to europe i will go for sure again to Brazil

The last two days we have been doing a buggy tour of Rio. Yesterday the weather was awful for touring in an open-topped car, but it was nice anyway and we saw the districts of Urca, Botafogo, Lapa, Santa Teresa and Centro. The stairs at Lapa are very famous and we had a bonus in that the artist Sel…