The “Wonderful City” of Rio de Janeiro is a city of high international esteem. Located on the South Atlantic coast, Brazil's second largest city gave up its status as the capital in 1960. The architecture is well known for its luxurious construction, much of which was built to provide protection for the nobility and other important people. Rio de Janeiro has evolved into a prime vacation destination for the world's party-goers. The weather is pleasantly warm throughout the year, so Rio de Janeiro enjoys visitors during the seasons. Rio also features a vibrant nightlife due to its wide range of dance clubs, including samba dancing, and late-night bars.
Rio de Janeiro’s Highlights:
Carnival: The greatest and most popular festival event in Rio de Janeiro attracts tourists from all over the world each year. It features a parade, samba, and lavish costumes.
The Harbor: The spectacular geographic features, which include Sugar Loaf Mountain, the hills of Tijuca, and Corcovado Peak, bestowed the harbor with the honor of being one of the world's Seven Natural Wonders.
Sugar Loaf Mountain: Perched atop the mouth of Guanabara Bay, nearly 1300 feet above the harbor, this peak is the ideal place for rock climbing and other outdoor activities.
Sporting Events: The world’s sporting enthusiasts will have all eyes focused on Rio as the city hosts the FIFA World Cup final in 2014 and the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in 2016.
Copacabana Beach: One of the most famous beaches in the world features a promenade with restaurants, hotels, bars, and night clubs in addition to the luxurious sand and surf.
Tijuca National Park: Located in a mountainous rainforest, this park features numerous attractions, including the statue of Christ the Redeemer and Corcovado Peak.
Here’s an entirely new take on the familiar city of Rio de Janeiro. The gentrifying, bohemian Santa Teresa district is an exception among Rio’s most desirable neighborhoods, in that it’s high up on the hillside rather than down along the beach. This is a district full of colonial mansions and artists’ workshops, with char ...
Some of the exotic thrill about Rio de Janeiro may have worn off since its heyday—with the proliferation of budget jet travel, there’s nowhere truly exotic anymore, and major cities like Rio are near commonplace.
That’s no reflection on this hotel, though: the Copacabana Palace is still the place to live the fant ...
The sequel to the wildly successful São Paulo establishment, the Fasano in Rio De Janeiro sets its sights no less high. Like its sister, it’s as dignified and serious as a cutting-edge modern-design boutique hotel can get, all supremely confident understatement — which is all the more surprising given that its designer is none ...
It’s a commonplace by now that Rio tourism is big business — it’s been a long time since Brazil was truly exotic or undiscovered, and the archetypal visit involves a stay at one of the the massive high-rise hotels that blot out the sun along Ipanema or Copacabana beach, an experience you’ll share with at very least severa ...
A chip off the La Maison block, La Suite shares an owner, and a concept — a tiny and impossibly stylish luxury guest house, far enough off the main tourist drag to escape the crowds, but close enough to feel like you’re in on the action. In La Suite’s case, this means Joatinga, one of Rio’s most exclusive residential dist ...
Brazil’s luxury boutique hotel scene has been expanding exponentially, and it’s not hard to see why. Just on the coast alone there are any number of locations that would make an ideal setting for a stylish little getaway, among them Paraty, an old Portuguese imperial town on the Costa Verde, to the west of Rio. This is where you&rsqu ...
Insolito is Portuguese for “remarkable” — a confident moniker, considering that this beachfront boutique hotel is just one of many fashionable places to hang your hat in the Brazilian resort escape of Buzios. Sleek decor and a relaxed, intimate vibe? Check. Egyptian cotton, beautiful people dressed in white linen, caipirinhas o ...
We go on and on about the need to expand one’s mental picture of Brazil to include more than just Rio and São Paulo. Well, in this case, it doesn’t need to be expanded by much. Barra de Guaratiba is maybe twenty miles outside of Rio proper, on the Atlantic coast to the southwest of town. But that’s far enough. Here, on a ...
Though it’s certainly off the beaten path compared to Copacabana and Ipanema, the neighborhood of Santa Teresa — once quaint and bohemian, now rapidly becoming the bairro of choice for chic travelers — isn’t exactly a secret anymore. But a few quiet street corners, clattering streetcars and tree-shaded hideaways still pre ...
With over twenty beaches and a global reputation bolstered by a vacationing Brigitte Bardot’s famous love affair with the place, the Brazilian peninsula of Buzios isn’t exactly a secret hideaway. But it’s far enough (160 kilometers) from the madness of the Rio resort scene to provide some respite from the head-spinning crowds t ...
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