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Published: February 22nd 2007
Rio de Janeiro is a fantastically exciting and vibrant city and is hard to sum up in words... The people in Rio ´Cariocas´, love to dance, drink and sing but above all they love thier country. We were lucky enough meet one of the locals (Emerson) who showed us a side of Rio that we never would have been able to experiance on our own such as going to a soccer match and experiancing the night life the way the locals do. We even went to a pre-carnival samba party and danced an australian version of the Samba with some over excited locals til the early hours of the morning. As well as this, we went to a Carnival practice and saw two Samba schools rehearsing at one of the real venues of Carnival. Of course we also did the tourist things like Corcavado, spending the day on Copacabana beach as well as various other beaches around Rio. We also visited Sugar Loaf but unlike the tourists who take the cable car up the side of the steep mountain, we physically hiked up the side through the rainforest with Emerson and saw many weird Brazillian creatures, including monkeys! One day was
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The view of Copacabana beach from our balconey at our hotel.spent on a one day tour of some of the islands two hours from Rio, the main one being Isla Grande. On our last day we were lucky enough to do a tour of a Favela (shanty town). This was a fantastic experiance and a great way to see the other side of Rio. Some of the proceeds from the tour we went on went to a local school which we visited and saw first hand how a little bit of help can go along way. There arent any photos at night because, although its a great city, its not safe to take the camera out, but this is what we got up to during the day!
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