Sunday, November 13, 2011

Moving To Rio De Janeiro, Brazil For That Holiday Getaway And Enjoying Its Atmosphere

By Lais Goncalves


Few towns on earth have been blessed by as much great beauty as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its name summons pictures of white-sand beaches, the Cristo Redentor, brazillian carnival, a soccer game at Maracana, samba, favelas and rows of high-rise apartments. Rio de Janeiro is a diversified city with most vacationers sticking to rental apartments and hotels in the beach neighborhoods of Copacabana and Ipanema.

Corcovado (signifying hunchback in Portuguese) mountain hosts the widely known Christ sculpture. The best time to visit Corcovado as well as the Cristo Redentor is for sundown on a crystal clear day. When taking in the vista, it can be difficult to imagine that there can ever exist a more amazing metropolis.

Pondering the easy characteristics of Brazilians, it is practically an enigma that such a area could cultivate an architect like Oscar Niemeyer. He is the main architect behind Brasilia, the manufactured and mainly incredible capital of Brazil. Possibly his very best job is the Niteroi Contemporary Art Gallery in Niteroi, a brief boat journey merely across the Guanabara bay from Rio de Janeiro. Oscar Niemeyer is nearly 100 years old and still going strong. He's currently doing work on a statue to put down the US blocade of Cuba.

The intensity of Copacabana popular beach and community in Rio de Janeiro is readily grasped from a quick geography lesson; 350,000 people residing in a four block wide community stuffed in between mountains and the sea presenting countless apartments rental accommodations. You can spend days or even weeks just in Copacabana and some tourists do exactly that. The spotlight of the season is New Year's (Reveillon) when two million men and women wearing white converge on the beach to observe the fireworks show.

Yet another great place is Pedra da Gavea. It should take between 2 and 4 hours from your Ipanema or Copacabana apartments to get to the top of it but when there, the scene is magnificent. You have an infinite viewpoint of the majority of Zona Sul (South Zone), Zona Oeste (West Zone), Floresta da Tijuca, as well as the Atlantic Ocean. On a clear day you can see all of the other major peaks of Rio de Janeiro, like Corcovado, Pao de Acucar, Dois Irmaos and Pico da Tijuca. Beholding the natural wonder of Rio de Janeiro just underneath the strains of the ascent are very well worthwhile.




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