Ipanema Porto

... and on for more or less the same price. To get here we used the Sao Geraldo bus company. We got the metro from Ipanema to Copacabana. The bus company are found in Copacabana,Av Noosa Senhora de Copacabana number 434, down at the very end of ...

... , sunny day. Headache and pink cheeks coming up for sure. Silly me. We rode through the Rio Guaiba town of Ipanema, unfortunatey, not the beautiful and famous Ipanema, further along the stunning Brazilian coast. Then to the highest point in Porto Alegre, ...

... at about six o´clock at night. On the security front this was, in my opinion, our first little test. This area was not Ipanema and it´s my experience that bus stations in some parts of the world can be rough to put it mildly. Here we are showing up in ...

... bags off in our dorm, we headed out for lunch and Shivani´s favourite new dessert, FROZEN YOGHURT WITH TWIX BITS!!! Ipanema itself had no distinctive qualities, but shared similarities with other popular holiday destinations, like Miami for example, with ...

... went to the old and most beautiful part of town and the area of Lappa for street parties and samba dancing, saw sunset on ipanema beach, went to a football match in the famous stadium Maracana, went to the botanical gardens and jungle walk. As well as ...

... Carla (the blonde Carla), great night! Day 4 Lovely dry morning. Got the Metro to Copacabana. Decided time to leave Rio. Bought bus ticket to Porto Seguro, northern Brazil. 19 hour bus journey. Walked back to Ipanema. Bring on the ...

... the bar that Hela Pinheiro is said to have passed every morning, thus inspiring that all time elevator classic - The Girl from Ipanema. We sipped Caipirinhas and listened Bossa Nova music and all in all Rio was brilliant, despite not being able to see ...

... which doesn't help matters.. OK bubye for now, check back later for pix when I get a computer that will let me do it.. EDIT: Thursday - finally leaving Rio tonight, got an 8:15 bus overnite to Porto Seguro gets in tomorrow afternoon at 2:45 - baHIA!! ...

... see him, it came as no surprise then that the views from the top, beneath his feet, were incredible. You could make out Ipanema and Copacabana beaches to the right and the Sugar Loaf directly in front. After we'd spent time admiring the views we turned ...

... and flinging on our swim suits, we headed down to the world´s most famous beach... Copacabana. Along with its neighbour Ipanema, it´s been immortalised in a song and is synonymous with glamour and beautiful bodies. And we could see why. Immaculately ...

... of Favelas in Rio so its no wonder. The beach was a mere 5 minutes from our place , we were between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches and both were gorgeous when the sun shone, however this only happened for 2 days whilst we were there.. typical! Brazil ...

... be better to end this ferry tale than in Rio de Janeiro? The first days we spent simply lying horizontal on the Ipanema beach, the most fashionable beach and neighborhood in Rio. All the beaches are white, wide and have all dangerously ...

... right out of the sand and water, and the stunning modern city is between the mountains and the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. The plane flew in this strange corkscrew pattern as we descended and we had several minutes of these amazing views. We ...

... on monday, ailsa arrived, and since then, weve been up sugarloaf mountain, seen cristo redentor atop corcovado, been to copacabana and ipanema beaches, taken the tram to santa teresa, been on a tour of favelas (otherwise known as slums!), been to the ...

... only two day’s rain. What has become clear to us once off the glamour Rio beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema is that Brazilians and Brazilian women in particular although very fashion conscious are refreshingly comfortable in their own bodies. To be ...

... time plus one hour - standard. Fenced off the taxi drivers that wanted to bring us to the airport and got a bus to Ipanema. To our surprise everybody was working on boxing day - poor brasilians. Luckily we took a card with address details of the hostel ...