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Rio de Janeiro Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Is it a clear blue sky... maybe not!
This is a top pick! ... Ave and caught the 2 hour bus through the mayhem of Rio´s traffic to the Christ Statue. But... as I was bussing it through Rio, the clouds came and when I arrived, there was no point in going up given that the statue was covered in cloud... BLOODY ...
Amazon Queen - Arrived in Belem
This is a top pick! Arrived in Belem yesterday afternoon, after an amazing four day journey along the Amazon River, places and romantic names that I only every drempt of visiting whilst reading my geography books. The boat journey was a fantastic opportuinity to interact ...
Since Emma
This is a top pick! ... and attempted to jump the traditional seven waves and make seven wishes. It will be a New Years Eve I remember. The highlight for Rio (this time around) was definitely our favela project. At first we weren't sure if we liked the idea of taking a ...
Back To Rio.
This is a top pick! ... (to 9.30am) and to change it to a direct flight to Ushuaia, at the very bottom of Argentina where our Antarctica expedition will leave from. Footnote: The Harbor At Rio de Janeiro is listed as one of The Seven Natural Wonders of the ...
Beautiful Rio
This is a top pick! ... - not a good feeling. And talking of flip-flops half the population live in ´Havaianas´, the brand of choice for flip flops in Brazil, apparently they sell in Harrods for 20 pounds and more and are very fashionable, here they cost about 2 pounds, I am ...
A wet New Year in Rio de Janeiro 2012
This is a top pick! At last today the sun appeared - we headed down the beach for a few hours to try and get a bit of a suntan seeing as tonight was a "white" party wearing white clothes and we were pale and white ourselves haha. The great thing about scottish pasty ...
Sambateria
This is a top pick! Today is a Marvin less day for David. David is now stuck with me until he leaves on Monday to continue his trips around Brazil. It was a slow day today. We still managed to get up early for breakfast and then hit the road to the Sambodrome. We ...
Beach paradise Paraty
This is a top pick! Yesterday unfortunately we had to drag ourselves away from Paraty and go back to Rio de Janeiro, where lucky enough we would be able to lie on the beach again. Paraty is in one word paradise. The coast is lined with about 300 beaches and beautiful ...
BRAZILIAN CAMERA DEBACLE
This is a top pick! ... at a party, and she boasted to everyone around, "Ele ja quebrou cuatro maquinas" - that I'd already broken four cameras while in Brazil. I couldn't believe she'd said that! What a little punk. Man, I hate kids. Sometimes, I just want to reach ...
Flying high as a bird over Rio....literally !!
This is a top pick! So finally today the rain stopped and the sun came out what a relief it has rained non stop for days so being cooped up in the hostel it was time to get out and do some sightseeing. I headed to reception to book us on the favela tour which is meant to be ...
Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! ... free, but in fact in the beginning we only have known the address, but not really where it is. Where is Pedro? So we arrived in Rio after only 6 hours and it was 5 am. We were really tired, so to take a night bus, which goes only 6 hours is not ...
At the COPA!
This is a top pick! ... that was on. I wince everytime I buy something here because I divide it by two and its a little more than that. So Rio Backpackers wins the prize for most expensive lodgings yet, coming in around $40 a night. And it's a bit of a ...
Osama bin Ilha Grande
This is a top pick! ... beautiful sunny weather we finally came into the harbour at Ilaha Grande. Ilha Grande is an island about 150kms south of Rio. The entance was pretty spectauclar with huge sharp mountains covered in atlantic rain forest and an awesome beach. I checked ...
Botanic Garden and other Sightseeings
This is a top pick! Rain Forest and Submarine In the morning we went to the botanic garden in Rio. The weather was not the best, but it was not raining so never mind. At first of course we wanted to buy a small guide for the garden, but the small shop was closed, ...
Day two Rio De Janerio
This is a top pick! Today was rather uneventful. I walked around Impanema and spent some time at the beach. I met up with the next group of people that I will be traveling South America with. This seems like a great deal. Nothing is planned other than our transportation ...
Tropical Beach Tourist Trap
This is a top pick! ... up other tour participants. It was a bus-ful of entrapped tourists. It was a two hour bus ride west aouthwest of Rio de Janeiro followed by a three inter-island trip via a schooner. Lunch, I think, was purposedly served around 2:30 pm so that people ...
The Good, the bad and the Ugly
This is a top pick! ... out. Most natives just shrug their shoulders and say there isn't much to be done. Crime of all sorts seems to be tolerated in Rio. (Yes, Rudy Guiliani, they even have squeegee men.) The day before we took a tour of two of the favelas. (We were ...
Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! Day 321 - 322 - Rio de Janeiro Rio is doing its damnedest to dispel our current lethargy for travelling. the hostel where we´re staying is the kind (filled with young, single people) where the focus is on evening entertainment rather than daytime ...
Christmas Day
This is a top pick! Day 335 - Rio de Janeiro Christmases in faraway places are over-rated! I've never felt as homesick as I have today. There are a number of things that make the normal Christmas one of the highlights of the year that it is and I never realised what they ...
Brazilian Paradise Found.
This is a top pick! ... ’s aimed to stamp out cholera. Later it was used as a penal colony. Ilha Grande has been a perfect place to enjoy a slice of holiday Brazil and we move on tomorrow (back to Rio for one night) thinking a few more days would have been ...
Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! Day 325 - 326 - Rio de Janeiro What can I say? Despite Kara's arrival giving us some impetus, the thought of spending another five weeks in Rio and on Brazil's beaches has bizarrely been usurped by the lure of London in January. While on the face of it ...
Rio
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Rio in our later entry from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil entitled 'Rio Rocks!'. Cheers, K & ...
IF YOU'VE GOTTA GO DOWN, GO DOWN SWINGING
This is a top pick! Along clear, light-colored sea with waves rising and breaking near shore, lies Rio de Janeiro. Beneath huge, bulging rocks that break apart the town and necessitate tunnels, lies Rio. Among green forests that climb the hills which lead to the rocks, ...
Lima - Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! Day 319 - 320 - Lima - Rio de Janeiro Our last bit of excitement in Peru was experiencing our first earthquake (the replica one in the London Science Museum doesn´t count). To be fair it was only a tremor but it didn´t stop us virtually shitting ...
The final update...
This is a top pick! Finally then it has come to this day...the last one of our holiday :-( It is now 11:00h and at 14:00h we will go the airport to depart by plane there at 17:00h for the long flight back home...oh yeah...we forgot, we don´t have a home and no job ...
Azucar Paġ - aka - Sugar Hill
This is a top pick! I can´t even explain how excited I am to be in Brazil. The city is much different than I had actually expected. I had been warned that there is a lot crime, but this is unreal! I grabbed a cab from my hotel and asked them to take me to a citibank to ...
I go to Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! ... I think of Brazil, I immediately think beaches, bikinis and beautiful people. Despite having done an International Marketing assignment on Brazil, all I remember is that the Brazilian bikini is 2-3 inches smaller everywhere than a normal one. And let me ...