16 December 2008 ~ 2 Comments

City of God: Rio Favela Slum Tour

City of God: Rio Favela Slum Tour

I spent some time in Rio De Janeiro and one the most memorable experiences was walking around a favela with a Rio Favela Slum Tour. Favelas are the shantytowns usually on hilltops where the land is considered unsafe and the settlements are illegal. The movie City of God is about life in a Rio Favela, [...]

Continue Reading

22 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Nightime in Rio De Janeiro

Nightime in Rio De Janeiro

In Brazil, and maybe all of South America, cigarette packages look like this. It makes you want to think twice about smoking. I would feel outraged if I were a cigarette company because of having to put a big gross warning on every cigarette package. My flight back to Rio went uneventful. I immeadiately caught [...]

Continue Reading

13 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Hiking In The Largest City Park In The World

I woke up at 7 am, the earliest since those red eye flights I had a few weeks back, to go hiking with strangers from the internet. There is a website called couchsurfing dot com which connects locals and travels to either host them at their home or show them around. I posted a message [...]

Continue Reading

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes