Hotel O K Rio De Janeiro

... faixa tropical, aspectos culturais, pobreza etc. - oferece ao viajante um risco maior que uma viagem, por exemplo, à Europa.
São diversos os riscos que, com a informação certa e cuidados básicos, podem ser drasticamente reduzidos. Basicamente os vetores de contaminação são: água ...

Hi all,

It's been about a week now that I got back from Rio, and I am just now getting around to updating my blog. So the trip was great, and I had a really good time, a lot of fun. I met my friends Kevin and Ben who are on a round the world trip, and Rio was their last stop. We stayed in an apartment rental in Ipanema for a week, which was a great idea since it was like having our own place.

The day after we got there, Rio won the 2016 Olympics, and we ...

... and we looked around for signs of places to help us. The only thing around was a gas station over the road so we lugged our bags across about 6 lanes of traffic and tried to ask if anyone had heard of the Él Misti Hostel´as that was about all we had to go on. They spoke not a word of English, and we realised we didn´t know a word of Portuguese between us so not very well prepared. We were both so tired out of our minds and with all the hostels in Rio I was ...

... of San Telmo (the home of Tango in BsAs) and a plaza to lounge around in and sip on coffee....i was greeted by homeless children less than 10 yrs old washing their clothes in the street 20 metres from our door and a half-clothed teenager brushing his teeth in the street whilst hitting a broken shopping trolley against a wall!! MAJOR FREAK OUT!!! my hostel insists its safe to walk around and take photos and lonely planet seems to rave about the ...

... the groups of caiman waiting below), hiking in search of anacondas, boating down the wildlife rich rivers, and horse riding through the jungle. The guide in charge of our group, named Gabrielle, was a hilarious cross between Rambo, Tarzan and The Crocodile Hunter, complete with jungle calls, headband, and belief that he was invincible when it came to dangerous animals or drinking parasite ridden waters. On hikes, we were forced to maintain a half-run in order to ...

... of Rio, and we all headed off to famous Sugarloaf mountain, which can be reached by a long cable car into the clouds.

It was a beautiful trip. It felt quite a relief to be soaring up and away from the congestion below, and the views from the top were stunning. We could clearly see famous Copacabana beach stretching off into the distance, and the natural harbours and bays of Rio.

The next big trip was to see Christ the Redeemer, the ...

... a massive queue that I presumed was to buy tickets for the statue thingy...WRONG!! That was people who had already queued to buy tickets and were waiting to get in one of the small vans to the statue. Just was I started to walk into the queue one of my flip flops snapped...GREAT ! I can't moan I guess I've had em about 4 years, but It just meant I had to walk around bare footed all day, unless I could find a shop that sold em. Anyway we hatched a ...

After a catchup with the Gals, Dors, Tracy and Bea at the pool we headed out to Santa Theresa to a lovely Boteco (bar) Bar do Mineiro. It had amazing live music, Jongo, Samba, Chorro and Samba de Roda and I was complimented on my dancing and many of the locals got up to dance with us. Also, the food was to die for. We had vegetables! They were thin on the ground in Salvador and Olinda, usually mixed with Pork and Eggs (not good for me). I ordered the Salad (which the ...

Well as you may have guessed from the title of this blog we are still alive and the journey continues. Made it to our surf hostel which is about an hour from the bus depot, we had to check in then head back into Rio to meet up with our friends to go see a football match. Our buddy from Van is travelling with an English fellow named Mark. Mark is a big fan of football and got us a line on some tickets on the web. The hostels ...

... in meat.

Usually they provide you with a circle with one green side and one red side.

The waiters carry huge BBQ skewers with different cuts and types of meat on and if they see that your disc is displaying the green side (GO!) then they will bring the meat to your ...