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January 1st 2006

Published: January 28th 2006

Happy New Year, everyone! We arrived in Rio de Janeiro, the second biggest city in Brazil after a couple hours of layover in São Paulo (another crazy town) several days ago. Unfortunately we didn't see any Rio landmark our first night due to our late arrival. We went directly to our hostel in Botafogo neighborhood, which located only twenty minutes walking from Copacabana and Ipanema beach, si... Read Full Entry

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Keep running

The platform we need to keep running from.

Pedra Bonita

The platform of Pedra Bonita, where hang gliding is taking place from.

Hang gliding

Hang glider's point of view.

Hang gliding view

Right before landing.

Landing

Conrad and I are landing on the beach.

Done

Us and our hang glide instructors. The guy on the right is Conrad, whom I flew with.

14th February 2006

Marcelo Armstrong
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Your FAVELA TOUR
Sorry to inform you that FAVELA TOUR is the name of a tour created by myself in 1992. So just dont use this name to promote another company. Favela Tour is not a general name. Is a private name of a tour operator. Be a Local is another tour4 operator. we have nothing to do. Your texts lead to misconfusion. Marcelo Armstrong www.favelatour.com.br

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