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The Soul of Rio de Janeiro: its ´Little Africa´ neighbourhoods

Sarah BrownThough most famous for Carnival, golden beaches, and world-famous landmarks, the real heart of Rio de Janeiro, for those in the know, lies in its downtown, most notably in Saúde, Gamboa, and the surrounding neighbourhoods hard by the port. For it’s this area that’s steeped in a complex history that dates back half a millennium to the Portuguese colonisers’ founding of Rio and the centuries of brutal slavery which followed.A good place to start is Praça Mauá, a once rundown square…

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Cruising Brazil's Amazon: not your typical tourist destination

  Amazon Nature Tours   I am a hiker. But at home no one uses a machete to blaze the trail prior to walking on it as did our guide Souza, creating a path in the overgrown rainforest step by step. Slicing, swatting, swooping, chopping, no branch, bush, vine or twig was safe. The hike was one of four daily activities during our eight-day adventure exploring Brazil's Amazonia. Calling the Tucano, an 18-passenger river yacht operated by Amazon Nature Tours home, we traveled over 200 miles along the…

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Santa Teresa, Rio's hip old neighborhood

What’s my favorite part of Rio de Janeiro? Not at all easy to say, because there are so many cool parts of this city, appealing in their different ways. But (literally) high on the list, way above the famous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, on Santa Teresa hill close to the downtown, Centro, is an utterly charming neighborhood rather unlike any other in town, with winding cobblestone streets, a vintage tram, centuries-old architecture, and a small-town feel – think Rio’s answer to Montmartre.…

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  • Brazil Always Summer Tours October 18, 2010 at 2:57am
    For Mr Murad Hassan: The best beaches in Brazil are in the Northeast (Porto de Galinhas, Natal, Maceio, Praia do Forte among others). Ideal you fly with Tap Portugal from Lisbon or Iberia from Madrid. Will save money on domestic flights. Can also arrive through Rio de Janeiro. Very nice beaches in the Buzios region. We can help you with hotel bookings, tours and transfers, car rental. For further information please contact me on frederico@brazilalwayssummer.com // Skype: fredericopontoscardeais // Tel: +55-61-3345-4441
  • Murad Hassan September 10, 2010 at 12:37am
    what would be a reasonble budget for two weeks holidays and traveling in Brazil including sight seeing for two?

    cheers
  • Tripatini September 9, 2010 at 12:09am
    One of our other members has posted a question on Ask A Travel Expert regarding travel to Paraty. If you'd like to help out, please respond not on this comment wall but rather at the following link:

    http://www.tripatini.com/forum/topics/paraty-brazil-musts-and

    Muito obrigados!
  • Jon Haggins May 13, 2010 at 12:59am
    I have such a passion for Brazil. Rio was my first international trip when I was a youngster. Brazil will always be in my heart.
  • Kitty J. Pope May 11, 2010 at 3:15am
    yes, I am just let me know and i will get back to you asap.
    Kitty
  • Patricia Borns May 11, 2010 at 3:07am
    Kitty, just visited your ADT site. Very interesting. Are you the best person to talk to about submissions?

    Patricia
    patriciaborns@comcast.net
  • Kitty J. Pope May 11, 2010 at 2:50am
    Please visit AfricanDiasporaTourism.com, a web journal about culture and heritage tourism in places of the African Diaspora worldwide. Let me know what you think and sign up for the mailing list to stay in the loop. We just did a great article on the African Diaspora in Brazil. A must-read!
    Thanks,
    Kitty
  • David Paul Appell February 12, 2010 at 11:50pm
    It's a tricky thing, like razing slums to make way for more salubrious housing and so forth -- often the poor get bulldozed as well (figuratively speaking).
  • Paul Barnett February 12, 2010 at 10:44pm
    Interesting! The same policy is being adopted in Recife, and I guess in other cities too. A pity they don´t have projects to work out how to re-employ the street vendors that prevent from scatrching a living, but apart from that a welcome improvement I think. The food on the beach can, and does cause serious illness, even deaths. And, the smells of fish being friend in cheap oil can be pretty revolting!
  • David Paul Appell February 12, 2010 at 10:28pm
    Anybody catch this the other day, re rehabbing carioca beaches?

    Rio De Janeiro Journal: Clamping Down on the Kaleidoscope of Rio’s Beaches

    Luis Fernando Bensimon beamed as he looked away from the crystalline waters of Rio’s famed Ipanema Beach, away from the beautiful bodies perfecting their caramel-mocha tans just days before the city explodes with its annual Carnaval celebration.

    Mr. Bensimon marveled instead at the plastic orange garbage bins lined up in the middle of the sand, and at the portable bathrooms along the sidewalk — sights he was not used to seeing.

    “I have never seen the beach here so clean and orderly,” said Mr. Bensimon, 45, a Rio native who left the city 22 years ago. “It has improved a lot.”

    Rio’s beaches, famous as much for their boisterous energy as for their natural beauty, are undergoing a makeover thanks to a “Shock Order” program by the city’s new mayor, Eduardo Paes.

    But in the quest for order — a warm-up, of sorts, for the Olympics that will be held here — Mr. Paes is trampling on some storied Rio beach traditions and potentially putting hundreds, if not thousands, of beach vendors out of work in what is one of Rio’s most visible informal economies.

    rest of article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/americas/10rio.html?ref=world
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