Rio de Janeiro Travel Blogs - Page 6

Photos from Rio de Janiero & Foz do Iguacu

We got up and had breakfast at the Hotel. It was the freshest juice and fruit ever! After, we waited for our tourguide to pick us up. Our tour was of St. Theresa, The Carnival Musem and Stadium, Corcovado  Cristo de Reedemer  and Sugarloaf mountain. The views were spectacular!. We had lun…

Impressions from across Rio de Janeiro.....Cobacabana and Ipanema Beaches, Downtown city life with lots of delicous barbeque restaurants and awesome Caipirinhas in all strengths and flavors (!!), seeing why soccer is so important for Brazilians, the so unbelievably beautiful nature with its jun…

23 Feb: Met up with Errol (Pom form Hostel in BA) and we headed out to a street party in Lapa. All sorts of dancing in the streets and we had our first experience of caprinhas from the street vendors. Franz Ferdinand were playing at a venue there and we could hear it pretty clearly from outside. 2…

Poor folks don’t seem to get much respect over here, but they sure have the best views. To learn why, you have to go to the famous shantytowns, called favelas. We decided to make this trip, despite advice from friend who had visited Brazil and also from Riva, a Brazilian himself. You will be surp…

i got to rio right after new years, because i couldn't (didn't wanted) to pay the prices they asked for hostels over that period! in the bus there, i saw a friend i met before, so when we got to rio we decided to get to the same hostel, with me was a friend from slovakia i met in the hostel in sao …

Easter Week in Brazil....Visiting our friend, Jennie....as well as taking in the Portuguese culture...:-)

One of my all time favorites!

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 …

My visit to South America happened in 2006. I went with a good friend of mine and we had a blast. The tour in Buenos Aires was fun and informative. Iguazu was the best part, I couldn't believe this site, the beautiful water falls, especially the Devils Throat..Amazing! You get to appreciate it more when you see it from the Brazilian side. Rio was a bit scary, dirty and not as I imagined. In anyway, we had a good time and I would love to make it back to Buenos Aires!

My first trip to South America to visit my friend in his homeland. This was the greatest adventure of my life.

Paseo a lo largo de la Praia de Botafogo y subida al Pao de Açucar. Vista de Rio desde lo alto del Pao.

10 days in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Oi!Estou aqui (I'm here!).  Estou com minha princessa de São Paulo, Joslene, e eu estou feliz! 

Basicly, i went to brazil for a year on exchange! i did a lot, saw a lot, and learned a lot.