Plataforma Rio de Janeiro

I hand dinner at Carratao Ipanema churrascaria with the Plataforma tour group. I was joined with a group of two elderly Argentinian couples. They can´t speak English nor Portuguese, hence my Spanish is again activated. We discussed about the ...

Day 30   16 November 2007 (Rio de Janiero, Brazil)   What a sad morning.  Al is so looking forward to getting off and seeing Rio and then getting home.  He's had enough of seeing the same people day in, day out.  There ...

... them forgot to start! After getting back we grabbed some food and headed off for our evening's entertainment - a folklore show called Plataforma. At first it seemed a little odd with lots of dancers who looked a little rusty but it improved and the live ...

After 5 takeoffs and 5 landings in 17 hours I finally arrived at Rio de Janeiro. I did have a bit of a snooze between Lima and Santiago, but it is certainly not an easy way to travel. I signed up for Rio by Day from Grayline before arriving in Brazil. ...

... they led him up to play along with them. Finally we met Gordon and Lorraine ready for our transfer to a samba show at Plataforma. The ticket included dinner and I had to grin when the van rocked up outside none other than the same chain of churrascaria ...

... 's a great location, one block from the beach!  After getting settled in, we went for a walk and then booked the Plataforma Samba show for the evening.  140 reais including dinner and transport from the hotel-a bit steep but how often does ...

... ice cream. We think we ate too much again, this always happens at buffets. Back to the bus and The next stop was to the Plataforma show at the local theatre near to Inpanema. Inside we got told to sit anywhere so we went up stairs and found a really good ...

... week & couldn't see Cristo as he was shrouded in cloud, so we were very fortunate. See slide show 3. Thurs night was the Plataforma Samba Show - see video 3 for a few clips. Friday was an around-town day - we travelled into Saara, the old bazaar area ...

Como llegamos dias despues del carnaval, hoy fuimos a Plataforma, un show que tiene muchisimo tiempo presentandose y muestra lo mas caracteristico de Rio, viene siendo lo mas parecio a el carnaval. Tambien estubimos en el mercado de las pulgas de ...