Rio de Janeiro Travel Blogs - Page 5

2006 trip for a month to do some research and of course, to travel.

Le but sera de relier Rio de Janeiro et Salvador en vélo et en parapente ! Le Brésil est tourné vers l'avenir. Projets parallèles : interroger les associations sur leurs visions du Développement Durable et la synthétiser, penser à la phrase de à Lévi-Strauss : « L'humanité est constamment aux prises avec deux processus contradictoires dont l'un tend à instaurer l'unification, tandis que l'autre vise à maintenir ou à rétablir la diversification.»

Now I don't want to seem at all arrogant! (that wouldn't be like me at all aye... lol) but I thought I knew a thing or two about international travel!  Turns out, always something new to learn.  I blindly let the travel agent lead me and didn't think to double check connections and the ro…

Rio was just an amazing party city and there was so much to see and do. We chilled out on Ipaneama and Copacobana beach and attempted to get a tan. We went up the sugar loaf mountain and to the christ to seee beautiful views of Rio and to watch the sunset. We stayed in Lapa/Santa Teresa on the litt…

Brazil has fantastic food. Perhaps I feel this way because Argentina, where I was previously, offers a good but disappointingly limited array of meals. So, like a caravan out of the desert of steak and empanadas, this study abroad trip has found the oasis of Rios de Janeiro. Although only partaking…

Woke up early this morning for our hike up the "big fella". We passed people who wanted to make some money off us, one guy telling us that there were 2 favelas in the area (where????), and some saying it would take us about 3 hours to reach the top. Well.... it took us only an hour and a half …

We spent Carnaval in the hilltop artists’ enclave of Santa Teresa - the only place we could find last-minute lodging.  We saw the touristy things: the giant Jesus statue, Ipanema and Copacabana.  And our B&B host Pedro took us rock climbing in an improbably dense state forest ov…

Since I last wrote on here we have been busy with our sightseeing... The football was amazing words cannot describe how passionate people are about football. We were sat in amongst all of the fans who were singing, letting off flares and generally going mental. We have some videos and photos on o…

BUS JOURNEY Our last bus trip, woo! And of course it had to be seriously eventful since it was our last one and it certainly didnt dissapoint in that respect! It was suppsoed to be 22 hours and it ended up being 32 hours! Our first glitch happened whilst getting on the bus itself. Basically the g…

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Hi, Was trying to get the last bit of Rio done before the taxi came to take us to the airport for the flight home, so slightly cheating here and writing this from a wet and windy Southsea.  If I close my eyes and turn the heating up could still be in Rio. Our second full day in Rio and the s…

Around 5 am this morning, there was someone strange walking around in our hotel, whoever it was, knocked on all the doors.  I did not dare to open the door as there was no peek hole. I get up this morning and go have a breakfast in the little hotel, its simple but good, some type of fruit jui…

Who hasn´t heard about Rio De Janeiro before?It´s in the first place famous for its carnaval, the statue of Christ and for its beaches with names that for sure ring a bell: Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon. Next to this there is also cosy, bohemian neighbourhoods called Santa Teresa and Lapa. Tha…

It feels kind of funny start writing about this trip 11 months after it started. Well, what else can be said about leaving home? An exciting (for all that's to come) and sad (for those left behind) moment. I can still remember the last time I saw each one of my family members and friends, and …

On Saturday June 30th I went with my 3 new friends from England to book a trip to Foz do Iguacu. We did that and found a pretty cheap flight there for Sunday July 1st. The day was full on predicaments as Jack was having problems with his bank card and couldnt get money and was having difficulties p…