Vidigalbergue Rio Hostel
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I shall return to Rio
So I arrived in Rio at 6am hungover but excited to see Brazil. I got in my taxi from the airport to my hostel at the bottom of a favela (slum). I was so tired when I got to the hostel that I passed out for a couple of hours to recharge the batteries. Once I woke up I was determined to see some of Rio. I wasn´t exactly in the heart of the action …
Out and about in Rio
So a round up of what we've been doing around the Vidigal area of Rio for the past couple of days. Despite our 'feelings' on the hostel, it is actually quite well placed to the beaches - Leblon, Ipanema, Copacabana.... (no Lola to be seen).
We did a long walk along all 3 beaches, starting at Poste 12 and making it to about 4(the beaches …
Hostel from hell...
So we left the lovely clean, spacious, welcoming, quiet CASA 579 on the Friday and headed to what we can only describe as a hell hole - or as hostel bookers call it Vidigalbergue Rio Hostel.
Where do we start? The entire hostel is the size of a small 1 bed flat however they have crammed in 3 bedrooms and approx 13 bunk beds!! the bathrooms …
Where's Christ?
... else imaginable. Then the meat would arrive. Skewer after skewer of mouth watering meat. Beef, Chicken, Pork, Lamb, Sausage, Salmon, Some white fish, King prawns, Squid, Muscles. And they came around again and again until you couldn't eat another thing and we washed it all down with a bottle of Red.
Day three we had a tour around the largest favela in South America. It started with a motor bike ride up through the streets to the top. We both felt a little ...
From Sao Paulo to Río de Janeiro
... alta de la favela, y bajamos caminando por las sucias calles de la favela. Creo que esto me ha preparado un poco para lo que me voy a encontrar en Asia...esta gente convive con la basura con una naturaleza impresionante. Son calles muy estrechas, y literalmente, hay montañas de basura entre las casas, mezclados con gallinas, perros, ratas, niños, puestos de comida...una guarrada! Pero la verdad me esperaba la gente con peores intenciones, y malas miradas. ...
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