We wish we had more time in Rio
August 21st 2007 Arriving by bus in Rio we could see the Christ the Redeemer statue on the hill. We took a fixed price taxi (R$18 or US$9) to our hotel. Hotel PaysandĂș was the joining hotel for the Dragoman tour we would be taking through Brazil and Venezuela. It is a lovely old hotel in a pleasant part of town but they did give us one of the nastiest rooms our first night there. It was smelly and small and we we
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