Where to go out in Rio de Janeiro?

Most of foreign tourists in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will stay in Copacabana or Ipanema the stylish neighborhood near the beach.

But at night you could get disappointed. After 11pm it’s getting very quite and you might thing there’s not going on in Rio de Janeiro. Of course there are

still some bars and discos open. But the real nightlife takes place somewhere else.

If you want to meet people go to Lapa. Lapa is well known in Rio de Janeiro because of it’s antique train bridge.

At weekends there are thousands of Cariocas (that’s the name for people from Rio) and foreigners on the streets of Lapa near the famous bridge. Everywhere is musik, dance and fun.

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Brazilian Carnival

Budget travelers struggle with Carnival in Brazil. Travel during the biggest party in the world, logic dictates, is more expensive than normal, but many foreign travelers are surprised by this fact.



They want to visit Rio de Janeiro or Salvador, and are astonished at the price hike in airfare and lodging, destroying their South American budget travel fantasy.

If the budget is so tight, travel in low season, or spend Carnival in a small town, away from state capitals and the most famous parties. Remember, Carnival is celebrated everywhere in Brazil. If someone chooses to attend some of the biggest parties in the world, such as those in Rio and Salvador, they should expect to spend a couple of extra dollars.

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Vivian Haynes In Brazil

(Vivian Haynes) I am interpreter and tourism consultant in Brazil. Brazil is Really Nice Place To Travel.Brazil covers almost half of the South American continent and it is bordered to the north, west and south by all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador; to the east is the Atlantic. The country is topographically quite flat and at no point do the highlands exceed 3000m (10,000ft). Over 60 per cent of the country is a plateau; the remainder consists of plains. The River Plate Basin (the confluence of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, both of which have their sources in Brazil) in the far south is more varied, higher and less heavily forested. North of the Amazon are the Guiana Highlands, partly forested, partly stony desert. The Brazilian Highlands of the interior, between the Amazon and the rivers of the south, form a vast tableland, the Mato Grosso, from which rise mountains in the southwest that form a steep protective barrier from the coast called the Great Escarpment, breached by deeply cut river beds. The population is concentrated in the southeastern states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The city of São Paulo has a population of over 10 million, while over 5.5 million people live in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

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