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On the southern coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro is the city of Rio de Janeiro, land of the tiny bikini and even tinier speedo and one of most scenic and well loved cities world wide.

Locals are known as "Cariocas" and pronounce Rio as "Heeo Je Han-ear-ho", wear Havaianas (flip flops/thongs) all the time, let the days slip by on the beaches and party the nights away.

Highlights
• Christ the Redeemer
• Sugar Loaf mountain
• The beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema
• The Mardi Grais Carnival in February
• Maracana Stadium - the largest soccer/football stadium in the world
• Lapa's amazing night-life
• New Year's Eve at Copacabana beach
• The favela tour

Best time of year to visit
Any - though most popular and crowded is December to February - when prices double.

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By Wanderly Wagon
March 10th 2009

Sugar Loaf Mountain South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Ipanema

Sugar Loaf Mountain

Woke up this morning feeling a bit groggy after the few drinks last night. I don’t think the shoe shine guy would have got away to easily this morning! We had our usual breakfast of bread rolls, cheese and fruit and then relaxed a little around the hostel. The longer you stay in these places the more homely they become and when you see new faces you welcome them and chat for awhile. I met a sound guy from Uruguay who told me that the Uruguayans look at the Irish and feel as that they are a similar sized nation surrounded [View Full Entry]

By Iola and Steve
March 10th 2009

Street parties and sketchiness!! South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Ipanema

Christ!

Adios Rio! We’ve now left Rio and we’re on the tropical Island of Ilha Grande(think Lost and you’re there - it’s amazing) but we’ll tell you about that in another blog - there’s lots more to update you on from Rio. If we had to sum Rio up in 5 words -, HOT, EXPENSIVE, COOL, THONGS and SKETCHY.I leave sketchy till last as this is probably the one we’ll remember Rio for being!! After I last wrote we went to the Maracana (girls this is the biggest football stadium in Brazil and holds 100k people). Not much to say about this [View Full Entry]

By Wanderly Wagon
March 9th 2009

Harmless Opportunism! South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Ipanema

Self explanatory!

So the story goes….. I had to leave the hostel in search of a working ATM. The HSBC one around the corner was only giving out two’s and five’s and since in needed about 1000 Brazilian reals, getting them in those denominations was not going to work. Off I soldiered through Ipanema for an ATM and ended up having to walk very far to get one. I didn’t mind that much as it was a wonderful morning and it wasn’t too hot. On the way back to the hostel as I passed under some tree’s I had the misfortune of a [View Full Entry]

By Wanderly Wagon
March 8th 2009

Maracana South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

Maracana

The Maracana is set to host the 2014 world cup final and what a stadium it is. It currently holds 90,000 people but holds the world record of nearly 200,000 for the world cup final between Brazil and Uruguay in 19??. Last night saw the match between Flamengo and Cabrofrinese take place. The attendance for this match was only about 25,000 but the noise and atmosphere created by the home fans was amazing. We were picked up from our hostel at about 4pm after only been dropped backed from our previous tour a few minutes earlier. A Danish couple and an [View Full Entry]

By Nate and Miri
March 8th 2009

Rio South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

Jesus Christ

RIO!!!!! Everything was beautiful, streets smell of weed - and other stuff, chilled, not enough time during the day, and quiet at night (in the dodgy streets and in most of the bars and clubs mid-week) Best stuff included...... - Sugar Loaf Mountain....great views of the city at sunset with an amazing red sky. Could have stayed there all night - Watching the Brazilian league footie final in the Maracana stadium (Botafogo V Resende). The football wasn't great but the fans and atmosphere were amazing! - Taking the bonde (cute little old yellow tram) up through Santa Teresa - through s [View Full Entry]

Looks like sugarloaf from a distance but its someones head

By Dee and Eddie
March 8th 2009

Rio de Janeiro South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Ipanema

Sugar Loaf
Sugar Loaf from one of the Rio beaches

Ok so we headed outa Dublin airport eventually...both gald that we were finally in the air. Journey over wasn´t too bad, better than expected. We landed in Rio and was it hot, by the time we arrived at our hostel we were two toffe apples...very sticky. The first day we just hung out in Ipanema & Copacobana area, walking around getting a feel for the place. Chilled out on the beach that evening loving the fact that we weren´t in work. Second day we went to see Fluminese v Nacional in a Brazilian Cup game in Maracana Staduim, good to see [View Full Entry]

By Wanderly Wagon
March 8th 2009

Rio Expedition South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

Darren & Michelle

Well we certainly made up for doing nothing on Friday today. From 10am to 10pm we were active and it was a pretty cool and memorable day. First though I’ll finish off how we got on for the rest of Friday. We ventured out yesterday afternoon in search of a nice place to eat. We had read in the Lonely Planet (LP for future reference!) about a nice place a few blocks from us serving good local food. Slight problem though, everyone else was obviously reading the LP that day and there was a queue going out the door. Now, both [View Full Entry]

By yayaboy1
March 8th 2009

Carnaval - En backpackers drøm South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana

Jeg traff noen australiere første kvelden. Matt, til venstre, var jeg mye sammen med hele uken i Rio

Nå gjenstår bare siste etappe av en lang reise. Jeg har lest værmeldinger og har lenghjemsel, for det er mye snø i Marka nå. Men først er det Rio, en backpackers drøm. Byen har jevn temperatur hele året og er ikke ulik Buenos Aires. Den går rundt hele døgnet. Avsnittene fra Rio blir forholdsvis uhøytidelige fordi jeg stort sett var på stranda og bedrev selskapelighet på kveldene. Jeg har sett de viktigste severdighetene her før, og synes ikke det er nødvendig å besøke severdighetene jeg allerede har sett. En forskjell Mellom Buenos Aires og Rio er imidlertid at du må passe [View Full Entry]

Dave sammen med en lokal skjønnhet på Copacabana torsdag.

Andre kvelden traff jeg Eirin og Edi fra Norge. I midten Matt

Poolvirksomheten var til tider hektisk og nybrukket arm med gips var ingen hindring. Denne kvelden ble det vått over hele gulvet

By yayaboy1
March 8th 2009

Rio - Karneval i Rio South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Centro

En av de beste sambaskolene: Portela

Idag tirsdag startet vi med frokost og ble enige om å dra på Copa som vanlig. Ikke nødvendig å stresse mer enn nødvendig nå. Dessuten blir det jo en lang dag, vi skal på Carnaval Brasilieiro. Listen som hotellet legger ut viser at det er bare ca 40 streetband rundt i bydelen i dag. Vi kjøper noen bokser og bader. Dette er den siste dagen på stranda, så boksene nytes med andakt. Det blir også noen ekstra bad i folkevrimmelen, det er brasiliansk fridag i dag også. Dersom jeg går langt nok ut og holder meg i overflaten blir jeg ikke [View Full Entry]

By Hellmania
March 7th 2009

The Road to Rio South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

Sugar Loaf Mountain

With no sign of Bob Hope, we head into Puerto Iguazu to catch the overnight bus to Rio. The taxi we had negotiated a price with the night before had done a runner and the hotel concierge ran off down the road to source us a cab. We asked the Brazilian border security if it was necessary to go though all the paper work as we were only catching a bus in Argentina and would be coming back through to Brazil in an hour or two. “It’s no problem” the woman replied as they stamped our passports to exit she advised [View Full Entry]

View to Copacabana from Sugar Loaf Mountain

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