Rio de Janeiro! I can´t seem to get "The Girl From Ipanema" out of my head...
March 1st 2009 I spent a whirlwind 2.5 days in Rio de Janeiro, taking in as many sights as my feet could handle. I was lucky enough to have an invitation to stay with a friend of my cousin´s, at her apartment in Leblon. Leblon is the ritziest and probably the safest area of town, which was great for me, because I was a bit nervous to walk around Rio on my own.
I was also lucky in that she had a connection f
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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more 
