knock back a couple caipirinhas (cachaça (sugar cane liquor), fresh lime juice, and sugar)
enjoy the sunset right on the water with a crowd of locals in Urca. It is custom for the Brazilians to clap for sunset.
While the Brazilian slums have reputations as shantytowns governed by drug lords, he learns that electricity and water have been installed and a police presence has helped clean up the streets.
Don't come by yourself, take the favela tour. Awesome views and amazing things happen here.
spicy chicken w. garlic & pepper = 'the dog's television' + side of manioca (starch from cassava plant) - made w. farofa (toasted manioc flour) scrambled w. eggs -> wash down with shots of cachaça
run by customers who went there for 15 years before they bought it from the original owners because they didn't want to see it close.
most "magical" neighborhood of Rio, Santa Teresa. Set on top of the famous hill with winding streets, the now-bohemian neighborhood used to be the "Beverly Hills".
