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Rio de Janeiro Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AMAZON - AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER
This is a top pick! ... their extra bananas. If anyone wants to write me, my address is: Shady Acres Housing, Branch 6, Twig B, Leaf 206, Belém, Pará, Brazil. Ha, ha. I'm just yarning ya'! I'm not really living in a tree. It's just my dream. But, I saw ...
EMBORA
This is a top pick! ... happiness. And sadness. Because, there's MODERN ODDYSEUS' TOP 5!!! First, the happiness. The Top 5 Best Things About Brazil: 1. BRASILIANAS - Brazilian girls are a treasure. They seem to be made up of nothing but good things: happiness, ...
Ilha Grande - Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! Day 333 - 334 - Ilha Grande - Rio de Janeiro Leaving our luxury in Ilha Grande was an effort but excluding our flight home it was the last time we'll be moving, the last time we have to carry our backpacks and the last time we'll have all the other ...
A boy in every port
This is a top pick! ... of Brazil. It was so similar to back home that I felt a bit uneasy mixing amongst the middle and upper classes whilst backpacking Brazil. Jaime took quite a shine to me and I must say that I took full advantage of him being a local (and from Santarèm ...
Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! ... days exploring the city, in fact we´ve just returned from a visit to ´Christo Redentor´, the world famous Jesus statue overlooking Rio. The view up there has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately the matrass we´re sleeping on is rockhard, even ...
Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! Day 323 - 324 - Rio de Janeiro A long last there's someone we can talk to beyond the usual traveller dialogues of "What do you do a home?", "How long have you been travelling?" and "What are you doing tonight?". These questions are the most you can ...
Nearly Departed
This is a top pick! Day 337 - Noon of Day 339 - Rio de Janeiro Kara's now left Brazil and we're packed and ready to depart for home. We've managed to meet up with Ana, a Carioca we met in mendoza, but other than that our time has been taken up with last minute shopping ...
And on to the impressive Rio de Janeiro...
This is a top pick! ... out to sea and along the coast but also back to the city with the Christ statue in the background which just encompasses everything of Rio. Then onto another cable car to the highest point and my favourite view of the city – as you can see ...
Christo Mountain View
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A couple nights in Paraty, on our way to Iguazu
This is a top pick! ... to do is have a value meal lunch from one of the local restaurants – fish/meat rice and beans for £4 – a bargain in Brazil standards and tasty too. Jonny also spots a lot of street art that he likes so all round not a bad afternoon! Back to ...
Pão de Acucer
This is a top pick! Pao de Acucar or the Zuckerhut Of course we wanted to visit the spectaculary and famous Zuckerhut! How can we visit Rio de Janeiro and not to go to the famous places. And if you are in that city you even have the possibility to get a discount. You ...
Simon LeBon said it best
This is a top pick! So here the adventuring really begins. Rio de Janeiro (said to be one of the worlds most beautiful cities) is our jump off point to a 4 month treak around South America. Although we nearly didn't make it.... How long do you reckon you need to give ...
Boxing Day
This is a top pick! Day 336 - Rio de Janeiro Your bog standard Boxing Day involves unwanted family, the wearing of undesirable Christmas garments and cold turkey. Not ours. Waking up we suffered an initial disappointment as we were greeted by rain (and the customary ...
Fútbol anyone?
This is a top pick! Vasco da Gama vs. Ponte Preta My first South American soccer game.. Vasco da Gama is a Rio de Janiero team, Ponte Preta is a Saõ Paulõ team. This was quite the experiance. To begin with, the stadium is in a terrible area. I'm glad I got to see the ...
Brazil!
This is a top pick! ... a bikini that just about covered her nipples! Infact i looked fully clothed compared to her!!! That's what's nice about Brazil though...everyone seems really comfortable with themselves and no-one wastes time worrying about what people think! The beach ...
Finally...Belem!
This is a top pick! Well..what can we say...it was long but not too bad! At times it seemed like we were steaming along at a roaring pace so at one point we couldn't quite understand why it was going to take so long! Until we hit a dirt road and then we knew why and it ...
Fat Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro
This is a top pick! ... The buildings were never ending in all directions, it was like Hong Kong times 10. The super express bus to Rio de Janeiro passed through the beautiful landscapes of rolling green hills, ocean coasts, sugar plantations, endless palm trees, and ...
Get Rich Or Die Trying in Rio
This is a top pick! ... quote was much reasonable at US$370 one way to Toronto. Next step is getting the money. Even though Brazil is a modern country and Rio is a cosmopolitan international city, getting the money proved to be nearly impossible. Our(mostly Juliette's) attempt ...
Carnaval!!!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... and small children there, even late into the night. Centro A bit further still is the actual downtown, or center of Rio. On Thursday, after visiting the Christ Redeemer, we headed down to this area to check out a pre-Carnaval bloco. ...
Rio from another angle
This is a top pick! ... Rio's population live. We'd seen them from afar as we came in from the airport, but diving into the middle of Rocinha (Rio's single biggest favela) was fascinating. Some estimates reckon that as many as 400,000 people are squeezed into this one area, ...
Carnaval madness in Rio
... into the room with a butter knife and started saying something to me in an agitated way, which of course I didn´t understand. Now I know Rio is a pretty dangerous city and perhaps I should have been a bit more concerned, but it´s not easy to take a kid ...
Samba in Lapa
... seat cause it looked like the people hanging off the outside were going to get crushed by the cement walls. There was a local couple from Rio on the Bonde who then informed us that the bonde didn´t go to Cordova like we thought. So, we went back down to ...
The final leg!
I arrived in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, after 3 long journeys by coach. However I wasn't too tired to set off to the Iguazu Falls, the Brazilian side. Unfortunately the weather over the last few months had been so dry that the falls were only at 15% of their ...
a searys of unfortunat events part 3
the malichuse mall i left my bag in my room. my 'caput'ipod and the little bag of chargers and wires on my bed next to my pack. i wonderd off into town to find a book. there was a really expensive copy of the new hitch hickers gide book (the 6th book of ...
Jungle2jungle
... up the coast named Ilha Grande (or "Big Island"). Having heard it described as "one of the most beautiful national parks in brazil, a tropical paradise and, most intriguingly "a big island", we could hardly wait! A very luxurious coach ride later we found ...
60 hours of travel!!
... including the Bolivian carpet!! - and caught the 3pm overnight bus to Sao Paulo with a weird irish guy and then caught another bus to Rio de Janeiro - and arrived at rio hostel at about 9pm on Thursday night - oh yeah, bring it on baby! I then had ...
agent fishers retirement home.
... settle in paraty. Having backpacked sinces he was 16 he ended up working in a air port as an engier on some of the 747s in rio air port. It was after two year without vacation that his boss told him to take some time off and that he would cover the next ...
A taster of the project
Here's sth for you to get an idea of where I am each day. This is the website of Jen, an American girl who finished on Wednesday. ...
Samba and stuff
... who were bound to end up together on their travels. We chatted about culture, languages and things we´d been up to in Rio so far. Yesterday Anna and I had a guarana juice fuelled walk to Ipanema walking along Copocabana and Ipanema. The beaches here are ...
Premiers pas à Rio de Janeiro
... à Rio et je dois reconnaître que le spectacle en vaut la peine. Il me reste encore quelques sites incontournables à visiter à Rio comme le Christo Rendedor mais je décide le soir même de me mettre en route avec quelques-uns de mes compagnons de ...