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Cidade Maravilhosa

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 Dirty Rice
March 7th 2006

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

Hi friends and family! This is my first trip to South America and I have been here for about 5 days. One word can't describe it, but what comes to mind is Incredible! Where do I begin?! Flight was actaully fine considering that I had to take a zillion anti-nausea pills. The crew...Scott(Mr. brazil)...could not have survived without this guy...absolutely a must have kind of guy for such trips...a walking stud who is resourceful. "Crash" would not have been here because of him....LOVE the guy...Truly "a Brother from another mother". He loves the conference here..is actually learning stuff a [View Full Entry]

By DrBrazil
March 6th 2006

Champions, futebol South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

Sunrise over the Beach.

So it's been an eventful last few days. The last entry, I believe, was just before we went to the Parade of Champions, the winners of the formal Parading of the Samba Schools. To sum up, there are no words that come close to appropriately describing the event. (I seem to be saying that alot lately). We arrived at 2100hrs, to see the Sambadrome, the site of the event. This is a really long structure, made entirely of concrete. It was constructed by the famous Oscar Neimayer, the same architect who designed the city of Brasilia. To get an idea of [View Full Entry]

View down the runway...I'm in the relative middle.

By Vitaliy
March 4th 2006

Winners parade South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

The crowd

The Carnaval in Rio is a competition between 14 samba schools from all over Brazil, 10 of which are from Rio. It is much more commercialized than the carnaval in Salvador, but still amazing in many ways. The Carnaval takes place in the Sumbodromo, which is a huge stadium that was built especially for the Carnavals. Each school has something like 2,000 - 3,000 dancers. A school starts the preparation for the carnaval a year in advance: first it chooses a theme, than draws a competition to compose a song for it, and at last invents different customs and samba dances [View Full Entry]

By DrBrazil
March 4th 2006

Day 1 and 2 South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

View from our Hotel

Hello to all back on home turf! I am writing this from the lounge of our hotel, the “Intercontinental Rio” in the district of Sao Conrado in Rio de Janeiro. Out my window, I can see the beach with waves rolling in, and lots of locals running and swimming in the warm water. I just finished tanning by the poolside at the hotel, where we were entertained by a group of men playing “Pagode” music. For lunch I had a skewer of fish and I drank a couple ice cold Guarana Antarticas. We were interrupted briefly by the arrival of a [View Full Entry]

By Vitaliy
March 3rd 2006

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

Corcobado

At sunset I went to the Sugar Loaf - a mountain that oversees Rio, and the view from there was great. It amended the clouded view I had a few days ago from Corcobado. Sugar Loaf & Corcobado are the 2 high points from which you can have the best view of the city. [View Full Entry]

By burger1979
March 3rd 2006

Greetings from Brazil South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Botafogo

hi there folks, have to say its been a while since i´ve e-mailed people or even entered an account of what we have been up to since we got here. but the following is an account of what we have gotten up to since we have been here. enjoy. February 20th 2006 arrived in Rio after a 13 hour flight which included a stop over in Sao Paulo. when we arrived in heathrow BA were offering us £400 each to get of the plane and take the next flight the day after. but i turned it down despite ruths protests as [View Full Entry]

By Fu
March 3rd 2006

Rio Beaches and Bikinis! South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Ipanema

Rio

The only flight I could book from Salvador to Rio De Janerio was at 3am! it didn't leave on time this was the start of a bad day. We that's Luke, Mike and myself next found ourselves on a Rio street corner at 9am the address of the hostel in the Lonely Planet was wrong. Eventually made it to the right address but then had to wait for our beds to be ready, no probs.......6pm still no beds! we got shuffled off to a sister hostel in Copacabana which wasn't very nice, but given free booze for all the hassle so [View Full Entry]

By Vitaliy
March 3rd 2006

Favela Rocinha South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

This is how we arrived to the favela

Favelas are regions of big cities in Brazil, where the poorest population leaves, and considered the most dangerous places to be in. Local bands control the favela, and the police is usually afraid to enter a favela, and if it does enter it - only in big forces. My hostel organized a tour to one of the favelas in Rio, with a local guide. This is absolutely safe, as he has an agreement of protection with the locals, and the locals are interested for tourist to come in. I was at first concerned about it, but when I heard from everyone [View Full Entry]

By teecee
March 2nd 2006

RIO CARNAVAL South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

colour coordinated

by tim After six and a half weeks we finally arrived in Rio. Nine Dragoman/Encounter trucks carrying 120 people had descended from all over South America on the Hotel Paysandu. Our first night there was the Red and Black ball. This we had been pre-warned was an event which saw several thousand people dressed in Red and Black converge on a nightclub called the Scala club. The point of it was fairly obscure apart from the fact that the woman generally got mauled by the local bloke's. I was'nt really looking forward to it but it was just one of those [View Full Entry]

By Vitaliy
March 2nd 2006

Maracana - Flamengo vs Madureira South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro

I went at evening to a football game in the Maracana stadium. It's one of the biggest football stadiums in the world. When it was first built, it contained 200,000 places, but there was a problem with it's foundation so they added chairs, which lowered it's capacity by half. Unfortunately the stadium goes threw a renovation, so the lower floor is closed and the stadium contains only 55,000 seats now. The game we went to was a minor one - it was in the middle of the week, Flamengo is one of the best teams in Brazil and Madureira team is [View Full Entry]

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