Pre-arrival Vacation to Rio de Janerio for its world-famous (and totally worth the hype) Carnivale (29 Enero 2008-6 Febero 2008)

In all, I loved Rio. I loved its people and their thumbs-up. I loved the rhythm of Samba (and the way I never mastered its cadence). I loved the dancing in the streets and I was encouraged to discover “Para Ti” using handicrafts as a means of income for women in its community.
I hope to [...]

“Rio is a city of paradox, a city of contradictions.” (A visual).

“Top of Latin America´s inequality league table comes Brazil, one of the most unequal nations on earth, where the richest 10% of the population earns 49 times the income of the poorest 10%…Brazil has been scathingly rechristened “Belindia”–a hybrid where the middle class enjoy the European lifestyle of a Belgium, surrounded by the impoverished masses [...]

“Rio is a city of paradox, a city of contradictions.”

“Today Mike and I drove our bikes through side streets and alleyways to Sugar Loaf Mountain. From its heights we could see topography confessing to the inequality that inhabited it. Favelas built in the gaps shouting from the hillside ‘We are here. We are here.’”
Wikipedia defines a favela as the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty [...]

Tina and Rotary in Rio (3 Febrero 2008)

This is an excerpt from an article from the March edition of “Round The Wheel” (the newsletter of The Rotary Club of Las Vegas Northwest). It is the first of three posts about my Pre-arrival Vacation to Rio de Janerio for its world-famous (and totally worth the hype) Carnivale (29 Enero 2008-6 Febero 2008).
“Hello from [...]