Lapa Arches (Arcos da Lapa) Rio de Janeiro

We arrived to Brasil at about 4 am while it was still dark out and got to the hotel Pat shouted for us around 6 and we couldnt check in yet so we went to see the sunrise over Copacabana and spent the day sleeping on the beach in the 100 degree weather. From that moment, I knew was going to love this place.... Eventually got settled into the hotel, …

Today was a day for Nat and I to explore the old part of town, Lapa and Santa Teresa.

Nat and I got up, had breakfast and tried to head out. After numerous issues slowing our departure (forgotten cameras, coming back due to bad directions, going to an ATM, etc) we managed to head out around 1 pm.

We got to Lapa around 2 - 2:30. We …

I was in Rio de Janeiro for 3 months and it was an amazing experience.
The locals are very nice to foreigners and great hosts.
The city is beautiful, you have beaches and mountains at the same time, the weather is great! The food is even greater, if you go to Rio you have to eat Açai and sandwich Natural (in Ipanema beach); drink agua de …

Yes ladies and gents Crag and I have finally arrived...in Rio!!!

We arrived in Rio in the evening and when we finally got to the hostel I started to feel a little homesick so we went out to get a Mcdonalds to make ourselves feel at home! Can't beat the golden arches!

After that though we were away and took in the sights of Rio and …

Oi para todos,

Me voici donc arrivé au Brésil, sous le soleil de Rio, j'avoue que je n'étais pas mécontent d'arriver après plus de 16 heures de voyage sur un vol de jour. J'ai été assez déçu par le service de la compagnie British Airways, qui est très pro question logistique mais décevante niveau service à bord: 1 seul choix de repas à …

Today the weather is RUBBISH but we are on a tight schedule so we have to head up to see Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf now or never. Boo. More waste of a morning spent on the internet trying to figure out how to leave. The big issue is – bus or fly? We can bus for 13 hours to Curitiba and then bus again for 11 hours to Iguassu Falls… …

Rio de Janeiro: Just speaking the name conjures images of girls in barely there bikinis, Carnival, the samba, caipirinhas and miles of white sand beaches. I was REALLY excited to get to Rio! I had a week to experience all my bacchanal desires and I was gonna make it count! I arrived from a cold and dreary Sao Paulo with sunshine on my mind. I …

Het was een rustig dagje gisteren want ik moest echt nog bijkomen van het carnaval. Ondertussen ging het feest gewoon verder en waren er overal blocos en verkleedde mensen op straat. De winkels zijn gesloten en dus heb ik wat uurtjes op het volgepakte strand doorgebracht en wat gelezen. Gelukkig werkten mijn acai vrienden wel gewoon door en heb ik …

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Now was i time that i had been looking forward to since we left Adelaide. Rio De Janerio!!! I had seen so much of Rio from movies, the Internet and word of mouth reputation , it was finally here. As so many people flock to Floripa for NYE, escaping in early January can be tiresome. We caught an overnight bus, expected travel time 18 hours.. 24hours …

Rio de Janeiro, huge, fun, sunny.  Just what the carnival is about, and we were set to have a ball.  We arrived at the airport in the morning 2 days before it was all due to start, excited and rearing to party.  Before anything else we ...

... different to make it original and that became the luxury thing of my trip…10 minutes helicopter all over the city of Rio de Janeiro.Just spectacular… I had never been in an helicopter before… well, I can say it I did it in this trip :) ...

... leaving the beach and heading back onto Copacabana Avenue we were approached by a man selling novelty number plates with names and Rio de Janeiro printed on them.  He said to John “Michael, Michael??…” John said “no”, ...

... houses built in the old Portuguese post-colonial style.  It`s an amazing place considering it exists in the middle of Rio de Janeiro.  The electric tram (street car) was one of the first of it`s kind built in the entire world.  ...

... arriving in Rio.  The bonde moves fast – the highlight of the bonde ride was traveling over the Arcos do Lapa (Lapa Arches – which is a very narrow track).  Our trip ended in a park plaza called Largo das Neves.  From there we ...

... drunken forro dancing and we found Jesus (Christ Redemptor).  Our hostel was a small quiet one in Santa Teresa/Lapa near the Lapa arches and the coloured steps. Great old area of Rio where the streets around our hostel fill up every ...

... more recently has been undergoing a revival , although there are still a number of homeless people that seem to be living under the famous Lapa arches and it somehow does to me have something of a dodgy feel to it. I spent my first day in Rio exploring ...

... to climb to the top and took some pics. I loved how vibrant and colourful they were. We continued on through Lapa visiting the Lapa arches where the tram to santa teresa crosses. It didnt seem a very safe neighbourhood so we left heading towards gloria. ...

I think I must have been one of the very few people in the world to have visited Brazil twice but to never have been to Rio de Janeiro, the international face of the nation. But this time I was going for sure and I was intending to have a great time. I ...

... not prepared to go on my own.  Lapa is an area of Rio which is near the centre.  It is famous for the Lapa Arches which is a Viaduct that runs through the town.  Throughout the week, at night, it comes alive with street parties and samba ...