Rio, Simply Marvelous: Part 1--Nature

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October 5th 2010

Published: December 1st 2010

The Marvelous City, "La Cidade Maravilhosa" (as it's known) Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautifully sited cities in the world. Its edges are scalloped by beaches of soft sand and warm seas, and it's backed and woven through by Sugar Loaf (with whom I fell in love) and her sisters, towering black, granite monolithic domes, spiritual presences, that embrace and protect the city. A lagoon surro... Read Full Entry

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Tara Cloud

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I´m a one-way ticket, slow traveler, relishing the freedom of the open road and trusting serendipity to guide my journey. When I was younger, I used to travel for a year at a time. Then a few years ago, I roamed Europe and North Africa for three and a half years and liked that even better. On August 1st, 2010, I left my peaceful Mission Canyon paradise in Santa Barbara's mellow summer and emerged from a couple of planes a day and a world later in the teeming, sub-zero streets of Buenos Aires´winter. Now, with the Andes, Amazon and Galapagos between here and home, will three years be enou... full info

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