Sailboat Rides

Few towns on earth were blessed by so much organic beauty as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The name summons images of white-sand beaches, the Cristo Redentor, brazillian carnival, a football match at Maracana, samba, favelas and rows of high-rise apartments. Rio de Janeiro is a diverse city with many travelers sticking to rental apartments and hotels in the beach communities of Copacabana and Ipanema.

Corcovado (meaning hunchback in Portuguese) mountain houses the legendary Christ statue. The optimum time to go to Corcovado plus the Cristo Redentor is for sundown on a crystal clear day. When taking in the view, it is difficult to imagine that there could ever exist a more lovely city.

Pondering the uncomplicated character of Brazilians, it is practically an enigma that this sort of a area could foster an designer like Oscar Niemeyer. He is the main designer behind Brasilia, the manufactured and mainly incredible capital of Brazil. Possibly his finest work is the Niteroi Modern Art Gallery in Niteroi, a quick boat journey simply over the Guanabara bay from Rio de Janeiro. Oscar Niemeyer is almost a hundred years old yet still going strong. He is currently working on a statue to put down the US blocade of Cuba.

The intensity of Copacabana legendary beach and community in Rio de Janeiro is handily comprehended from a brief geography course; 350,000 men and women residing in a 4 block wide neighborhood stuffed between mountains and the ocean presenting many apartments rental accommodations. You can spend days or weeks just in Copacabana and various vacationers do simply that. The spotlight of the year is New Year's (Reveillon) when two million people dressed in white meet on the beach to look at the fireworks exhibit.

One other excellent spot is Pedra da Gavea. It ought to take between two and 4 hours from your Copacabana or Ipanema flats to arrive at the top of it but when there, the vista is magnificent. You own an unhindered perspective of most of Zona Sul (South Zone), Zona Oeste (West Zone), Floresta da Tijuca, not to mention the Atlantic Ocean. On a beautiful day you can view all 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 below the strains of the ascent are well worth the effort.