Written by LenR on November 2, 2009
- There are probably more hotels in Copacabana than any other part of Rio. They cover almost the whole range from semi-budget to luxury. If you are into luxury, there is only one place to stay...
Written by Alex Nikolic on June 28, 2005
- "Come on. Let’s go. Let’s go to Carnaval. It’s time to sing and dance..." Nestled among the mountains of a rainforest and flanked by the palm-fringed beaches of the Atlantic Ocean, Rio de Janeiro is...
Written by actonsteve on November 13, 2004
- If I ever move to Rio de Janeiro, I have found the almost-perfect place to live. I think a Portuguese colonial house on the promenade de Luis Alves would do me fine. Their rear gardens...
Written by actonsteve on November 13, 2004
- "Brazil is a country of the future...unfortunately, the future has arrived.."- Nino Rocha Santos Jnr, 2002Brazil has a passion for modern architecture. During the fifties and sixties, it built its own space-age capital in the...
Written by actonsteve on November 13, 2004
- Some cities have hawkers, and other cities have street performers. Rio has full-fledged acrobats. They choose the most captive audiences to perform to, as well. On a road just off Praca IVX, the traffic was...
Written by actonsteve on November 13, 2004
- There is only one image of the famous Jardim Botanico: the orchids...
The rarest and most exquisite plants in the world grow in profusion in Brazil. The 'Orquidario' at the botanical gardens was a knockout. There...
Written by actonsteve on November 13, 2004
- The tunnel is ahead of you. The roar of the crowd is deafening. Sixty thousand voices ring out. Sixty thousand boots stamp.
Brasil! Brasil! Brasil!
Flashes from thousands of cameras flicker as the roar gets even louder....
Written by actonsteve on May 28, 2003
- Sometime in the 1980''s Rio got a very bad press.
The television news was full of dramatic stories of hideous crimes and travellers around the world were advised to keep away from this city of sin...
Written by actonsteve on May 28, 2003
- All great cities have a historical square at their centre and Rio de Janeiro is no exception. The Praca 15 Novembro or simply Praca XV (pronounced Pra-chah Quin-Zeh) is one such square and sits a...
Written by actonsteve on May 28, 2003
- One morning I found Margaret Thatcher''s face staring back at me from a market stall.
It was at the bookmarket on Largo di Carioca and was a biography under the title "great leaders" (stop laughing at...
Rio de Janeiro
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