As Brazil rocks to the Samba beat, Rio, its party capital is alive with rythm and heat. Actually it´s quiet muggy and overcast at the moment, but you get the point. The spirtual home of the party, Rio is the place for the young, the attractive, the rich and for the next 5 days us. Well at least that´s the dream. A dream that as you trawl up the Avenida Atlantica with the pristine Copacabana beach streaching out into the suprisingly clean and inviting waters is all too believable. A land of milk, honey and a/c supermarkets (It´s weird the things you miss when exploring the wilds of the rainforrest - oh look jam, I haven´t seen that in months. mmm jam). But this isn´t the only truth about Rio. More than can be comfortably digested
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