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We arrived at out hotel at 4:00 pm. No time to waste if we wanted to see the city in three days. Recoleta History After checking into our very comfortable apartment in the Recoleta district’s Art Suites, we appropriately began our tour at the Recoleta Cemetery, the home of the lovely mausoleums of the city’s […]
These neighborhoods, south of the central part of the city, are among the oldest of Buenos Aires residential neighborhoods. San Telmo This bohemian community, which had been quite run-down, has become a venue for artist studios, antique shops, restaurants and–as the neighborhood in which tango was invented–tango and jazz clubs. Although much of the neighborhood […]
Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival consists of hundreds of different events, scattered all across the city. There are block parties, neighborhood parades, huge blow-out main Sambadroma parades and a number of celebratory balls. The Gay Costume Ball is a ticketed, high-profile event is always one of the highlights of every Carnival and a fitting culmination (the […]
Carnival season offers party options morning, noon and night for almost a full week. There are hundreds of block parties and small parades all over the city, about a dozen major street parties and parades, open rehearsals for many of the samba schools that will be competing in the big events, plus thousands of smaller, […]
Our Central Rio experience was defined at least as much by who we met, as by what we saw. After seeing a couple of the major sites and having a snack at the wonderful Cocinelle French Bistro along the restaurant-lined, table-filled Travessa do Conercio, we went to the National Theater and the Museo Nacional de […]
Rio’s south coastline is the playground for the rich, the sun worshipers and increasingly the physically fit. The area is limed by three beautiful beaches, each with soft white sand, gentle surf. Although all are lovely, Ipanema is the most fashionable and popular, filled with sun worshipers in various states of dress and undress. …