Rocinha, Rio

Travel Blogs from Rocinha, Rio, Brazil

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Rocinha favella ... a city within a city, Rocinha, Brazil travel blog

Rocinha favella ... a city within a city

A travel blog entry by bruceontour

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... ticks to achieve. Tick 1 = See Corcovado or known as Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) Tick 2 = Go on a Favella Tour (Rocinha) Tick 3 = Take a swim in Copacabana Beach Rocinha has 300,000 people living in what is a city within a city. Three ...

Rocinha, city of God la visite, Rocinha, Rio, Brazil travel blog

Rocinha, city of God la visite

A travel blog entry by bafreux

... et ou il avaient du quitter assez rapidemment la Favella mais sans accros. On s est donc enfonce gentiment des les ruelles de Rocinha.. au debut il y a encore des noms de rue des batiments assez correctes pour une Favella, mais plus on decend plus ca ...

Say Anything, Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil travel blog

Say Anything

A travel blog entry by biruvia

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... well, depressing. 2) Favelas - As I mentioned in my last post, Rio is in the process of 'pacifying' the favelas.  However, Rocinha, the largest favela in South America hasn't been pacified and may not be until next year some time.  It is said ...

Favela, Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil travel blog

Favela

A travel blog entry by pwong

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... but by far the most common governing authority in Rio's favelas are one of the three largest gangs - in Rocinha's case, it's ADA.  Rio's gangs historically based their drug-dealing operations in the favelas because most are relatively inaccessible to ...

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