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Travel Blogs from Rio de Janeiro
Brazil - Part 2 (Rio de Janeiro)
... to go anyway - it's extremely pricey!). Enough ogling at buildings for one day we decided to set off towards one of the most famous natural beauties of the city, none other than Sugar Loaf Mountain. Thankfully the weather had improved immensely by the afternoon and so, with blue skies intact, we payed the rather steep 53 Reals ( -R220) each entrance fee and boarded the cable car to the top. The views up top were beautiful and we got another great perspective of this ...
At the Copa, Copacabaaaaaana
... br> We finished off our time with Neyla by cruising slowly aside the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema while she played a cd of the famous songs while we watched guys playing footvolley (volleyball without using your hands), took photos of amazing sandcastles and watched the people pass by in garments that don't leave much to the imagination (mostly men). We headed back to the hostel where we chilled out for a bit before heading off on our late night flight to London.
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A city of extremes
... hexes on the other team. Needless to say we were tired as we did not actually sit in our seats the entire game and the game started at 10 pm! Does no one work in this city? 1-1 tie.
Today we headed out for a very big walk. We walked all of Copacabana beach and Ipanema beach and loved all the people watching. We then headed up to Leblon to the tourist police station as unfortunately Jan had ...
Cuisine brésilienne
... le gouvernement a entrepris un grand processus de pacification de ces quartiers, avec police, unités médicales mobiles, écoles. Malgré les évidentes bonnes intentions de ce projet, les brésiliens sont très critiques. D'une part, parce qu'il a fallu attendre que Rio décroche l'organisation des jeux olympiques et de la coupe du monde de football pour qu'on s'attaque au problème, et d'autre part parce que les gangs de drogue et de violence ...
Parada 1 del cruzero
El crucero llego a rio a las 9h.
Salimos rumo al Cristo! 3 reais el colectivo que nos dejo donde se toma el tren o taxi hasta la entrada del cristo. El tren salía en 1 hora y por el mismo precio nos subíamos en una micro con mas gente. 35 reais, con 1 parada previa al cristo para disfrutar de la vista. Llegado al topo, había que pagar mas 10 reais cada uno para entrar al parque donde está el Cristo. Como ...