Brazil - The first leg. Rio de Janerio (Botafogo, Lapa & Santa Teresa).
March 5th 2013 Our adventure begins in Rio de Janeiro. We land late at night on a Friday at Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport (GIG), so named after the Galeão beach that used to exist on that site and also Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Jobim who referenced the airport in one of his songs. (Later on our trip we would hear his music played at a jam in Salvador).
We taxied over the Rio-Nite
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