Downtown Rio (called ‘Centro’) is a rather big area and has safe sections as well as not so safe ones. The downtown Rio is the old city as well as the business district — very busy during the day on weekdays but rather empty and deserted at night, on weekends and on public and bank holidays. Your safety in downtown will depend on many factors. What section in downtown Rio you will walk at, your pace, how “like a tourist”…read more
Planning a trip to Rio in the near future? You are on the right webpage. Read below important info before packing to Rio de Janeiro — the most exciting, vibrant, and worth visiting city in Brazil. Rio Safety Forget about the info you have gotten years ago. Rio has changed, for the better. Rio de Janeiro is becoming safer than ever. It’s not perfect, but it is safe enough. As a proof of it, vacationers from Brazil, South America, North…read more
Reading practical travel information before heading to Rio de Janeiro is absolutely essential. Rio is a big city, spread out, with lots of things to see and do. Accessing practical and reliable info on how to visit and travel in Rio can make the whole difference on your trip. Without practical travel information on Rio you can have a good time, but with up-to-date insider’s practical information you can a have a GREAT time. That’s a big difference. With the right…read more
From this bus terminal (Rodoviaria Novo Rio), hundreds of buses depart and arrive every day to/from all over Brazil as well as to/from other countries in South America. Budget Brazilian vacationers travel a lot on these toilet-equipped air-conditioned modern buses, despite the ever-increasing popularity of low-cost flights, which in Brazil, depending on the airline, can be paid in several installments. The Rio de Janeiro long-distance bus terminal is rather big, always busy, and with a decent infrastructure such as plenty…read more
It is perfectly feasible to explore Rio de Janeiro by doing it yourself. However, you need above all a DIY touring plan, an updated itinerary with neighborhood maps as Rio is getting more and more popular and the main attractions are getting busier and busier. Remember that the 2014 FIFA World Cup will be in Brazil and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games will be in Rio de Janeiro. Because of that, coupled with increased safety and growing economy, vacationers are already…read more
The best of Rio includes popular landmarks such as Corcovado and Sugar Loaf but also nightly entertainment involving the best Carnival rehearsals, samba and bossa nova concerts, moonlight strolls on Copacabana beach sidewalk, and more. Rio de Janeiro has a lot to offer to vacationers. To give you an idea, many come back to Rio over and over again, year after year, to re-experience the same best sights as well as to discover — stay after stay — an unknown Rio…read more
Do you need reliable information to plan your trip to Rio de Janeiro? Do you want to see photos of Rio de Janeiro before booking your flight, your hotel, and your organized tours? You are about to dive into the essential information you need before making plans on travelling to Rio de Janeiro. Read below some information you might find useful. When to go to Rio de Janeiro This information is not as essential as you may think because Rio…read more
Coming to Rio de Janeiro in the near future? You’ve landed on the right webpage because you are about to discover all you can do in Rio de Janeiro. My Rio Travel Guide is the ideal guidebook for the independent traveler — it doesn’t matter if you are a solo woman or men, group of friends, a family with children, or a couple. My Rio Travel Guide presents the basic practical information that will be useful for any traveler who…read more
You can read tons of important city info in My Rio Travel Guide — the most reliable, practical, and useful guidebook in PDF to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its 112 pages covers the essential travel information to visit Rio City. Why My Rio Travel Guide in PDF and not the regular Rio de Janeiro City paperback guidebook? Here are a couple of advantages of My Rio Travel Guide over the other guidebooks: Up-to-date info on Rio Street art in Rio. As…read more
There are several side trips from Rio de Janeiro to nearby cities such as Niteroi and its beaches, little towns in the mountains, or coast fishing villages — all in the Rio de Janeiro State. Note that both the city and the state are called ‘Rio de Janeiro’. The less famous side trips from Rio de Janeiro, but completely doable by independent foreign tourists are: Niteroi, Camboinhas, and Itacoatira Niterói is a half-million people city, just across Guanabara Bay. You…read more