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  • Funatabi Cruises2020 World Cruise
    Day19

    Rio de Janeiro/リオデジャネイロ

     January 19 in Brazil ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    More than 20 years have passed since the last time I was in Rio.  I forgot how beautiful Rio is. With its magnificent granite peaks; sun-drenched, white-sand beaches; and colorful neighborhoods clinging to the hillsides, Rio is absolutely one of the most stunningly beautiful cities in the world.
    僕がリオを訪ねたのは20数年ぶりです。何と美しい街だと忘れていました。リオには険しい花崗岩の山々があって、太陽の光が降り注ぐ白浜のビーチも沢山あって、山腹にしがみついている数の多い村々もあります。世界中の街の内にリオは間違いなく一番美しい街のひとつです。そして、リオと言えば[カーニバルとサンバ]の街です。    Read more

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  • Steffi KehrmannArgentinien & Brasilien
    Day30

    Düsseldorf (Deutschland)

     November 23, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Back to reality!!!

    Rio hat mich im Regen verabschiedet und Frankfurt hat mich im Sonnenschein empfangen, allerdings mit 25 Grad weniger! ❄

    Vom Sommer direkt in den Winter und das mit 2 gebrochenen Zehen, die ich mir als nettes Mitbringsel noch aus Buzios mitgebracht habe!

    Die Zeit war wieder wunderschön und ich vermisse Südamerika schon jetzt, aber nach dem Urlaub ist vor dem Urlaub! Ich komme bald wieder...    Read more

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  • Steffi KehrmannArgentinien & Brasilien
    Day26

    Rio de Janeiro III (Brasilien)

     November 19, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ 🌧 21 °C

    Aufgrund der anhaltenden Schlechtwetterfront stand heute Kultur auf dem Programm: Rio bietet für jeden und jedes Wetter etwas...

    Zunächst ging es zu einem ausgedehnten Spaziergang in den Botanischen Garten, der wirklich trotz seiner Lage direkt in Rio einen Ort der Ruhe bietet.

    Anschließend waren wir noch im Museum of Tomorrow: wie sieht unsere Welt morgen aus? Wie wollen wir sie gestalten und was sind die Konsequenzen unserer Entscheidungen? Ein großartiges Kunstwerk mit viel Potential zum Nachdenken!

    Ab heute bin ich nun wieder alleine unterwegs! Die Reise bisher war großartig und wir haben so viel zusammen erlebt, gesehen und gelacht. Vielen Dank meine Freundin für die großartige Zeit und bis bald! ♥️

    Vielen Dank Rio 🇧🇷    Read more

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  • Lara ChadwickSouth America
    Day64

    Coming home!! Part 4

     March 18 in Brazil ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

    We arrived in Rio! We are going to stay the night and explore tomorrow then get on our way home tomorrow!

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  • Laurie ReynoldsMatando saudades in Brazil
    Day8

    Sugar Loaf and being a beach bum

     September 9, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    Joe’s rich pasta dish last night must have not been the best choice, or maybe the tap water did it, but for whatever reason, we had a very late morning start. I took advantage and walked a few miles up and down the beach, and by 11 or so we were on our way to the “bondinho” (cable car) up to Sugar Loaf Mountain. It is a big piece of rock jutting out of the water, with amazing views. Getting there involves a stop on an intermediary rock, about half as high as Sugar Loaf itself. The views at every turn were pretty amazing, but I have to say I was left wishing I could have seen the bays and coves and mountains before all the high rise building.

    After a lunch in a beach café, I was once again left to entertain myself for a few hours, and this time I spent a good chunk of post-elliptical time sitting on the roof of our hotel in a beach chair next to the pool with views over the ocean below. Yes, very uncharacteristic of me to sit and do nothing, but it was relaxing, I will admit. Not sure about dinner tonight, that will depend on Joe’s stomach.    Read more

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  • Laurie ReynoldsMatando saudades in Brazil
    Day9

    Back in full tourist mode

     September 10, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Last night I was once again mistaken for the women’s soccer coach. I looked her up and see that she was a very controversial hire and has not done anything good for the Brazilian team. Currently ranked number 10, that is their lowest ranking ever. Not a great doppleganger to have!

    Joe felt much better this morning, so we decided to head for Corcovado. The weather shows clouds and possible showers later in the week, so decided that though the morning was a bit hazy, we should carpe diem. Probably everyone has seen the statue of Christ the Redeemer way up on the top of a huge rock. The cog railway took more than a half hour to get up there, through jungle type forest. We spent about an hour up there looking around, walking through some paths from one view to the other, really a highlight of any trip to Rio.

    Unfortunately the Primitive Art museum we thought was right up the hill has closed, so on to Plan B. The Botanical Gardens. As is usually our experience, especially in small tourist venues, the café/restaurante in these places tend to be just fine. And this was no exception, a really nice, cool spot with decent food. Lots of orchids, 150 year old palm trees, jacarandá trees, you get the picture. Very pleasant, good recommendation Katy!

    Tomorrow we will probably head downtown to some more serious touristic visits — palaces, churches, monasteries and stuff like that.    Read more

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  • Laurie ReynoldsMatando saudades in Brazil
    Day7

    On to Rio

     September 8, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    We sadly said goodbye to dear daughter, who is staying another day in Sao Paulo to see friends, and hopped on a short flight to Rio. At the airport, a group of about 5 was obviously talking about me, and 2 took my picture. I guess this is as close to famous as I will ever be — my son told me I should put on a Brazil selection shirt or jacket and then see how I get the royal treatment. :-)

    Uber has flooded the Rio airport. There are special signs pointing you down the Uber path, and a meeting point with about 20 parking spots. Three Uber employees direct traffic, announce arrivals of drivers, and call for passengers. The fare into town was about $10, compared to $50 in a cab. As you might imagine, there was nothing going on at the taxi stands.

    Our hotel is right on the beach named Leme, the so-called “quiet family zone.” We’re on the 15th floor with a pretty decent side view (I guess you pay more for a beach-facing view, but at least we are not in the back!). We have eaten, walked, and worked out (LifeFitness elliptical, woo hoo!), and it is night. The roof-top pool has a restaurant with great views. I assume the food is bad and overpriced, but we may just go ahead and splurge tonight.

    Since we have lost our tour guide, we will have to start reading up on the sights and planning a few days’ worth of activities. The one thing I was sure to do was book a feijoada in the Copacabana Palace for Saturday. Feijoada on Saturday is a Brazilian tradition and the one we had there 30 years ago was pretty good!    Read more

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  • Laurie ReynoldsMatando saudades in Brazil
    Day11

    Folklore and Presidents

     September 12, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    We had a really nice combination of things to do today. First to the folklore museum — nice artifacts, but for me the highlight was the cute groups of school kids. Then a short walk to the former Presidential Palace now a museum, and the place where the dictator Getúlio Vargas committed suicide. The gun he used and his bloody nightshirt are on display, kind of grotesque, I thought. All of our day’s locations were within a km or so of each other, so we walked around downtown a lot. That is one of my favorite activities when in a big city.

    Lunch in another restaurant Joe remembered — another white tablecloth place, I am getting the idea that he was usually living high on the hog down here. From there we went to the Institute where lots of research was done. And since Joe has never met an academic bookstore he didn’t love, he was in hog heaven. We got inside the institute and walked around his old haunts, even though the archives where he spent the most time have been moved.

    Dinner tonight in a Lebanese restaurant — after a week in Sao Paulo with its excellent Lebanese restaurants, this one has a pretty high standard to live up to, we will see!    Read more

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  • Laurie ReynoldsMatando saudades in Brazil
    Day12

    Feijoada Flop

     September 13, 2019 in Brazil ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Joe kept insisting he had to have a feijoada. It’s the “typical” Brazilian meal, a pot filled with all kinds of meats, surrounded by plates of mantioc flour, collard greens, orange slices, beans, rice, etc. The place he remembered, the restaurant in the modernist Copacabana Palace Hotel, no longer serves feijoada. But we persisted.

    After a visit to the Copacabana Fort, built by the Portuguese to fend off the French, British, and Dutch (and maybe a few more), we took a long walk on two other iconic Brazilian beaches — Arpoador (named after the Harpoon Stone, from which harpooners supposedly used to hunt whales) and Ipanema. Now that I can compare all the beaches, I would say for sure that Copacabana is the prettiest — longest stretches of sand, widest beaches. But all of them have side lanes of traffic whizzing by and endless high rise apartment buildings.

    And then, having worked up an appetite, came the feijoada. Let’s just say it’s one of those experiences that should have been left in the memory and not repeated. I am glad I chose a salad. Now Joe is sleeping it off, and I am feeling superior for having been able to hop on the elliptical without feeling like I had a rock in my stomach. And now I am on the hotel terrace looking out as dark clouds move ini. All very dramatic.

    Home tomorrow!!!    Read more

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Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Rio dé Janéyro

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