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Azucar Ice Cream is not your typical scoop shop. We see ourselves as partners with our guests, team members, and our community and environment.
An incredible tour, with a beautiful view and super cheap, in the city of Niterói- Rio de Janeiro. Historic city with museums, forts and beautiful Guanabara Bay.
AN AMAZING DAY IN MIGUEL PEREIRA, ENJOYING BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN TOPS AND BEAUTIFUL WATERFALLS.
"The Port Zone experienced its heyday and decline in just over a century. From a fishing village to the country's main port, the area was also a gateway and home for slaves, giving the region the nickname “Little Africa”, due to the number of black people who lived there." If you are visiting Rio you need to go to…
If you want to have a deep experience in Rio, you need to go to this place. It's called Feira de São Cristóvão, it's piece of northeastern Brazil in Rio. The Northeastern is knowm as a place with a beatiful beaches, culture, music and cusine. So if you wanto to have an experience of tasting a good food, listening to a…
An incredible trip to Búzios with my friend Julian, from Spain. Julian loved this place and the incredible beaches. We took a ride in the Bugre and enjoyed the local cuisine. We loved to walking along the Pedras Street, it is the most famous street in Búzios where you can find clothing stores, bugre and boat rentals…
De una noche con neblina
This neighborhood is amazing for being a bohemian stronghold of the city of São Paulo, since the early 70's when students with no money moved there, There is a great concentration of bars, restaurants and nightclubs, because of the reputation as a young and bohemian neighborhood.
Amazing place with big parties and concerts. Is a big abandoned factory with a lot of cultural events.
Rio de Janeiro has an enormous variety of food and food from a lot of foreign countries. But I believe if you come to Rio de Janeiro, you would like to taste (and know) a typical Carioca food, wouldn’t you? So, the plate is FEIJOADA. Made of black beans and a variety of smoked meats, the side dishes are rice, cabbage…
I use to receive a lot of guests from outside and even from Brazil, that comes to Rio de Janeiro to spend an only day thinking it is enough to know the city. It’s impossible. Only the City of Rio de Janeiro has 1 200,177 km² and is the biggest touristic destiny of America Latina! Besides, there are wonderful cities…
Paulista avenue today almost didn't remember the aristocracy residential adress it was 100 years ago, but still is a place to see and to be seen. From the time it was a city home for the cofee barons only remained 3 buildings, and now is more democratic that it was a century ago. In its almost 2km lenght, it has the…
Think about an ice cream shop mixed with Alice in Wonderland-ish kind of decor.
A place where the flavors are as adventurous as the story goes.
Here you can find things like matcha, kefir, roses with white chocolate, prosecco, misso caramel, hibisco lemon and the list goes on.
The flavors change constantly, bear in mind.
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Wonderful place to watch the sunset, to have good drinks and eat typical foods from the bars in Rio.
The Manifesto is amazing !One of the top rock bar in South America. Manifesto is famous because it was founded 1994 and since the open,many rock stars has been there. There are a lot of pictures with the famous on the walls, and the best cover bands play there. It´s possible have lucky and see a rock star…
Teatro Oi Casa Grande is the biggest theater in Rio de Janeiro. This is why the biggest musical plays made in Brazil or Broadway's adaptions are presented there. During all February it presents "Bibi, uma vida em Musical", that tell the personal and profissional trajectory of Bibi Ferreira, a big Brazilian Star who…
With us you can explore the wonderful underwater universe by snooker or by scuba diving (we used to call "baptism"). You choose the sea: Arraial do Cabo, Cabo Frio or Angra dos Reis (Ilha Grande). These places are the "Brazilian Caribbean", with a amazing marine wildlife. The price includes transfer, boat, equipment…
Sail is always an amazing experience! At Academia Náutica you can choose between learn how to sail in a trip with instructors or just having fun sailing in Baia de Guanabara until Cagarras Islands, a set of 7 islands and cliffs located about 5km of Ipanema beach, one of the postcards of Rio de Janeiro. But if you…
The Feira de São Cristóvão is an amazing option to buy, eat, drink, dance and have fun in a same place. It offers crafts, food, drinks, Brazilian folklore and music. The Fair resumes the Nordeste region of our Brazil and offers to the guest 700 stands of a rich tradition: the Nordeste music (forró, xote, baião…
The Carnival is coming soon and the main attraction is the Samba Schools Parade. During all the year the schools prepares it, choosing the themes, music and lyrics. After that, every Saturday, all of them make a "big party" in their headquarters we call "Rehearsals". On the last Saturday before the Carnival, they…
This is a special trail for tracking and to the best view of Rio de Janeiro. The trail is easy (only 1,5km) and very pleasure. The worse part of the tour is to get from the main gate to the trail, because we have to climb a steep slope. But if we go by car, we can park on the top of the slope and only start the…
São Paulo subway is clean, fast and we will use it a lot on our rides! Not that cheap, however it is very usefull and it is even beautfull in some stations.
This place is lovely! There are a lot things for us to see. A nearby Theatre, several italian restaurants, a famous and traditional Catholic Church, there are a market for ancient stuff... a lot of stuff: toys, trains, military things, let's go for a ride!
Why don't we take a time for a ride in some public libraries? From the biggest Biblioteca Mario Mario de Andrade until the small Library from my neighborhood (specialized) in poetry, we will see how this gorvernmet offers cuture to Brazilian People. here is a Library inside Parque Vlla Lobos wich is an unique building…
São Paulo is the biggest city in the South hemisphere. It as built over a giant forest. In some places, if we pay atention, we can realise that there is an pen fight for ground... city and trees are competing for each squared inch in this area. It is very beautfull to see the giant trees all over the city!
Let's spend a time walking on a FEIRA! It is where most part of people buy vegetables. There are too many food, people waste it on the street floor, wich makes me wonder about all world's problems. There are too much exotic fruits and people, let's hear how the workers sell theis papays, oranges, bananas, canela and…
The neighborhood named ALTO DE PINHEIROS is close to the famous Vila Madalena area.
There are a lot of alleyways fullfilled with walls graphic arts, we can go for a nice walk thru green squares and nice calm streets, downhill untill Vila Madalena Bars and Parties!
At night, São Paulo is sleepless.... It is not like a place where everybody are without any worry, THE WHOLE CITY IS ON ALERT STATUS...
And it is very beautfull, very tragic, very fragile... And I invite you to take a night tour!
Do you want a super profile picture ? A really great picture?
So, let's go untill this bridge and get a great picture! We must not take too much time there, and after the picture, let's go on a car ride across São Paulo city.
This is the best place for you to see how people really live in São Paulo - with so many buildings, people don't have enough room for walking with their dogs, jogging and practicing outdoor activities; so they go to exercise at People's Park, looking to the skyscrapers, with a wonderful view!
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