Rio de Janeiro Motels - Reviews and Rates

Cata had a big project to hand in today, so she stayed at home working. I took off by myself, walking all the way down to the bus stop on rua de Riachuelo, enjoying the graffitis along the way. Despite trying to dress like a local I still looked like a tourist. It took about 40 minutes to get to the other side of Rio on the bus, the distances ar...

When Napoleon was about to conquer Lisbon, the Portuguese emperor escaped on a ship to his colony, Brazil. Together with a few thousand followers and escorted by the Royal British Navy, he set up court in Rio de Janeiro. When Napoleon was defeated in the battle of Waterloo years later, he refused to return home because he liked Rio so much, and ...

Partimos para Luanda. O nosso coração está alegre por termos conseguido embarcar para esta nova aventura. Não sabemos o que nos espera lá em Angola, quais os desafios que iremos enfrentar, mas uma coisa sabemos: Deus nos enviou!

Ok, so we got off the boat yesterday morning and we are still swaying!
Went out for dins with Jodi and Tony-from-Preston-who-now-lives-in-Ariz ona and the 4 of us looked very special as we sat there swaying over our steaks.. not in time either or we could have made out it was to the music, all at varying speeds and differeet levels of vacanc...

I'm super tired and don't really feel like writing anything right now, but just to have on the record that today was a nice day. It started a bit late, as I left with Eurico my CS host around noon or so (after eating a super delicious lunch of fish and potatoes). We headed out to Praca XV (near downtown), met up with Monika, a Polish CS in town,...

So we´ve finally decided to move - if we didn´t do it now we´d still be here next year never having seen anything else. We´re off to a little island, Ilha Grande, that has no cars and no ATM´s there´s a disaster waiting to happen. It was a leper colony then some other really attractive dump and then a maximum security prison. Now, though it´s a ...

My first time in Brazil and i made my way to Rio de Janeiro. Im timjed it so i would be there for my birthday and party hard! I went 5 days before so i could make friends which i did straight away. I stayed at the Mellow yellow hostel which was great, good atmosphere and nice people,.. it even had a hot tub! I had been learning spanish along my ...

Today is our first day in Rio and the temperature is about 80 degrees. The flight was uneventful and as soon as we landed we were harrassed by 6 taxi companies to go with them. I was in awe with Joe's fluency in portuguese and his ability to negotiate. Finally we stuck with the green cabs and paid 75 reais (about $40) which was a little more tha...

Wow, flippin' wow!! The day finally arrived - mum and dad (dawn and keith) arrived in Rio. We were soooooooooooooo excited to see them. We decorated our fab apartment with balloons and banners and most importantly got a stack of food and drink in ready for the Payne party. We spent the first two days on Copacabana beach and Ipanema beach chillin...

Came back to Rio after Ilha Grande a bit deflated, but really looking forward to exloring the city. Driving into Rio is an expereince in itself, as you come into the city via a really long bridge across the sea called Rio-Niterói. It´s over 8 miles long, which I think makes it one of the longeset bridges in the world! :) We stayed in Copacobana ...