view from Sugarloaf

Finally in Rio, the Cidade Maravilhosa

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November 15th 2010
Breakfast followed lunch en route from Sydney to Rio. Leaving at 11am on Monday morning, I arrived in Buenos Aires at 10am that day for a connecting flight to Rio flying over in the incredibly dense urban area of Sao Paulo. Exhausted, I was finally in Rio at around 8pm and took a shuttlebus from the airport through the city to Ipanema beach. Rio is divided into two districts: Zona Norte, a more ... read more

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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