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The city of Rio de Janeiro is situated on the south-east coast of Brazil, at the inlet of Guanabara bay, surrounded by green mountains with the statue of Christ the redeemer embracing the city on one side and the blue crashing waves from the Atlantic ocean on the other.
However famous for it’s vibrating samba in the Rio de Janeiro carnival, often associated with beautiful half naked Brazilian girls, the city has allot more to offer with an enormous wealth in Brazilian culture, tourist attractions and exotic adventure for every kind of traveller be it a family, a romantic couple, singles or back packers.
Over 50 km of white sandy paradise beaches can be explored by sunbathers or explorers, with perfect surf spots for the beginner and the advanced surfer. Copacabana beach is Rio de Janiero’s and probably the worlds most famous Brazil beaches and lies only a stroll of 10m from the myriad life in the samba metropolis, with beach bars, coconuts and tropical Brazilian weather!
Bring your sunglasses when going to a Rio beach! Copacabana or Ipanema are usually the first encounters with brazilian beaches arriving the samba capitol. If the salt breeze of white ocean foam and the sun doesn’t blind you, the beautiful Rio de Janeiro beach girl will!
NIght Views Of Rio Beaches
Entering the Brazil beach landscape of Rio going from west to east, you’ll see the wide white covered sand of Leme and Copacabana unfold before you, just crossing the Avenida Atlantica.
You’ll see the Arpoador beach, Ipanema and Leblon. These are all located right at the south zone of the city, with just a stroll needed to get to them. (You can find a beaches Rio de Janeiro map here )
These Rio de Janeiro beaches can often get crowded during hot days and weekends. If you want privacy, further out you can find the 12 km Rio beach of Barra de Tijuca, which is excellent for surfing.
Here there should be plenty of space for everyone. You can easily get here by taking a bus or a mini wan from the Atlantica.
Brazilians have tradition for going to Rio beaches. They often go early or in the afternoon when the sun has lost some of it’s intensity.
The basic facts about brazil:
Brazil is the fifth biggest country in the world after Russia, Canada, China, and the USA. Per 2006 188,078,261 (5th largest) people, spread out on an area of 8,514,877 km² (5th Largest).
The population density is highest along the coast of Brazil with the district of Copacabana, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, one of the worlds most populated areas with 25,000 people per km². While in Rio de Janeiro as a city, 4,781 per km².
However, the enormous rainforest reduces the average population density in Brazil to 20.5 inhabitants per square kilometer .
The capitol facts of brazil;
The capitol was moved in 1960 from the marvellous Rio de Janeiro to great disappointment of the cariocas. (People raised and born in Rio)
Other interesting cultural facts of Brazil involves the history of the Portuguese. Unlike the Spanish colonial empire of the rest of South America, the Portuguese populated brazil by mating with th
Brazilia is the current capitol, after it was constructed by the famous architect Niemeyer by order of the brazilian gouvernment to spread the population more out in the inner part of Brazil.
e existing Indians.
Slaves were imported and further contributed to making a mix of people existent to a large degree also today. You will find Indians, Blacks, Whites, Mulatas, chineese, all kinds of mixtures which make Brazil a exotic country of mangfold.
All of these different kinds of people brought a little bit of culture making a mix very special for Brazil. There is no problem in having several religions even though the official one is catolism. Many have two religious tables in their houses, following the African candomble religion and Christian icons.
The major exports of Brazil are: aircraft, coffee, automobiles, soybean, iron ore, orange juice, steel, ethanol, textiles, footwear, corned beef and electrical equipment
Facts and Rio de Janeiro, more facts of brazil:
The capitol was moved in 1960 from the marvellous Rio de Janeiro to great disappointment of the cariocas. (People raised and born in Rio)
Other interesting cultural facts of Brazil involves the history of the Portuguese. Unlike the Spanish colonial empire of the rest of South America, the Portuguese populated brazil by mating with th
Brazilia is the current capitol, after it was constructed by the famous architect Niemeyer by order of the brazilian gouvernment to spread the population more out in the inner part of Brazil.
e existing Indians.
Slaves were imported and further contributed to making a mix of people existent to a large degree also today. You will find Indians, Blacks, Whites, Mulatas, chineese, all kinds of mixtures which make Brazil a exotic country of mangfold.
All of these different kinds of people brought a little bit of culture making a mix very special for Brazil. There is no problem in having several religions even though the official one is catolism. Many have two religious tables in their houses, following the African candomble religion and Christian icons.
The major exports of Brazil are: aircraft, coffee, automobiles, soybean, iron ore, orange juice, steel, ethanol, textiles, footwear, corned beef and electrical equipment the Rio de Janeiro Carnival ! Exploding rhythms, colours, magnificent carnival floats, women dancing samba nude only covered in body paint, these are all usual associations with the Rio de Janeiro Carnival.
Dancing the Rio de Janeiro Carnival
Although it’s not allowed to be completely naked during the carnaval, not much is left for the imagination when the samba dancers move with incredible agility through the sambodrome (Rio’s location for the main carnival parade) or the streets in the city.
Rio de Janeiro Carnival
The history of carnival in rio de janeiro shows roots to both Europe and Africa. Originally the celebration came from Roman tributes to their gods, which the church later turned into the initials of the “Carne Vale” meaning something like “goodbye meat”.
The Carne Vale was the initiation of the lent period which you were supposed to keep from eating for some time as a way of purifying the body.
The Carnival spread to Brazil and Rio through the Portuguese which had divided South America with spain. (Brasil is the only country which speaks Portuguese, the others Spanish)
The big drums and feathers is believed to have entered the Rio carnival with the slavetrading from Africa. The black mans culture was seen down upon and even forbidden until around 1930 when Vargas pin pointed the carnaval themes or “enredo’s” back to the roots of the brasilian population in which Africa had a part.
The big drums came back to samba, and the famous Rio de Janeiro carnival costumes started to emerge as we know them.
The Sambodrome, the location of the Rio carnaval
There are two places to see Rio de Janeiro carnival, in the streets or in the Sambodrome.
The sambocrome is the Rio carneval as we know it, an enormous parade with samba dancers, batteria (a corpse of drums, playing samba so you feel the rhythm in your bones.).
The Sambodrome itself is a huge stage area with a characteristic design of something that looks like a m at a distanse. The parade enters in between two stages with seats for 100,000 people.
Carnival in the streets is very different! Here you join in on the dancing, and don’t be surprised if you get a kiss during the night, the Rio de Janeiro carnival is know to make everyone a little crazy!
To finish off the introduction, some carnival rio de janeiro photos comes naturally.
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