Blogs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America - page 4

Left the hotel today at 11:00 on the first uber we have ordered ourselves using the hotels wifi. The driver couldn’t speak English at all but it didn’t matter. Our first destination today was Brazil’s version of The National Museum of Fine Arts. Mainly Brazilian artists but we enjoyed our visit and we both got Seniors 50% discounts this time for just being over 60, so cost was only 4 Real each ($AUS 1.52). Once again, a marvelous grand old building. It was 13:05 by the time we left for the short walk to the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro and it’s quite a spectacular modern building. We spent a short time walking through and taking photos before walking to the Lapa area where we had dinner last night with Pierre. Just around the corner from ... read more

Earliest start yet, waking up at 4:15am to be ready for our booked airport taxi at 5am. Got down to the door at 5:55am and the driver was at the door as we opened it. The driver had no English but he already know where to take us and just needed to know which terminal. It was quite busy given the early hour but we had plenty of time and only waited a short time before we started boarding. The plane actually took off earlier than the stated time and we got to Rio much earlier as well. Breakfast was a pretty ordinary ham and cheese roll but we were so hungry it was sufficient. Our pick-up was waiting as usual and the guide spoke excellent English having lived in the US for a while. He ... read more

Dann war es also soweit, es war Samstag den 29.9 und somit der Start zu meiner 3.5 monatigen Reise durch Süd- und Mittelamerika. Ebenfalls war dies noch der Geburtstag meiner lieben Schwester, an dieser Stelle nochmals alles Gute. Die beiden Flüge Zürich-Frankfurt und Frankfurt-Rio de Janeiro liefen trotz kurzer Umsteigezeit in Frankfurt einwandfrei ab und ich kam planmässig sonntags morgen in Rio an. Nach kurzer Erholung im Hostel fing ich an die Stadt zu erkundigen. Zuerst ein kurzer Spaziergang am berühmten Copacabana Strand entlang. Danach ging es weiter auf den Berg Corcovado mit der weltberühmten Christus Statue. Die Aussicht vom Berg war dank dem klaren Wetter absolut fantastisch. Getrübt wurde die Aussicht nur durch die unzähligen Touristen die sich ebenfalls auf der Aussichtsplatform befanden. Trotzdem sah man die beiden Strände, Copacabana und Ipanema und natürlich den ... read more

Hello Rio After an overnight flight it was great to get to the hotel and grab breakfast at Mama Shelter a quirky little hotel in Santa Teresa - good place to stay for our first four days and a little different. Santa Teresa is situated between a favela and downtown and as such has some characteristics of both - interesting buildings and great bars, very bohemian, but not the place to wander after dark (sunset 5.30pm). The first afternoon we did get out into Santa Teresa where we found great live music & dancing but heading back were advised by a local to go a different route as a couple of tourists were assaulted on our direct route back to the hotel only hours earlier. After 12 hours solid sleep we caught the tram downtown and ... read more

Quem vê turista vê dinheiro. Especialmente em muitos países, você pode andar com vários meses de salário em dinheiro local em você. Isso pode ser tentador para alguns. Aqui estão algumas dicas para reduzir os riscos! Separe seu dinheiro em uma viagem Primeira regra, quando viajar , nunca coloque seus ovos em uma cesta. Em outras palavras, esconda seu líquido em pelo menos dois lugares e bolsas diferentes. É a base. Mesmo se você tiver dois cartões de crédito ( que eu recomendo ). Leve um sempre com você e esconda o outro em sua bolsa que você deixa no hotel. Cheques de viagem? Separe os recibos de cheques de viagem com os números que foram dados a você no momento da compra. Além disso, na minha opinião, é melhor fazer muito do que não o ... read more