Taking Into Consideration The Exquisite Areas Of Rio De Janeiro For Your Holiday

By Lais Goncalves


Few areas in the world have been gifted by as much natural beauty as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The name brings pictures of white-sand beaches, the Cristo Redentor, brazillian carnival, a soccer match at Maracana, samba, favelas and rows of high-rise apartments. Rio de Janeiro is a distinctive city with many vacationers adhering to rental apartments and hotels in the beach communities of Copacabana and Ipanema.

Corcovado (meaning hunchback in Portuguese) mountain hosts the legendary Christ statue. A good time to check out Corcovado plus the Cristo Redentor is for sunset on a clear day. When taking in the view, it is difficult to imagine that there could ever exist a more beautiful city.

Thinking of the uncomplicated character of Brazilians, it is virtually an enigma that such a nation could cultivate an architect like Oscar Niemeyer. He's the principal architect behind Brasilia, the manufactured and mainly incredible capital of Brazil. Possibly his very best work is the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi, a quick boat journey simply across the Guanabara bay from Rio de Janeiro. Oscar Niemeyer is nearly a hundred years old yet still going strong. He is at present doing work on a sculpture to put down the US blocade of Cuba.

The intensity of Copacabana famed beach and community in Rio de Janeiro is easily comprehended from a quick geography lesson; 350,000 persons located in a four block wide area packed amongst mountains and the seashore supplying countless apartments rental accommodations. You may spend days or weeks just in Copacabana and quite a few travelers do just that. The highlight of the season is New Year's (Reveillon) when two million individuals wearing white meet on the beach to view the fireworks exhibit.

One more great location is Pedra da Gavea. It should take between 2 and four hours from your Ipanema or Copacabana flats to get to the top of it but once there, the view is breathtaking. You have an endless view of the vast majority of Zona Sul (South Zone), Zona Oeste (West Zone), Floresta da Tijuca, not forgetting the Atlantic Ocean. On a beautiful day you can view all of the other major peaks of Rio de Janeiro, like Corcovado, Pao de Acucar, Dois Irmaos and Pico da Tijuca. Beholding the pure splendor of Rio de Janeiro just below the strains of the ascent are well worth the effort.




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