Gringos in Rio
To celebrate the much awaited arrival of our GC we decided to do a short international trip this Thanksgiving. With Europe being mostly cold and rainy in November, we decided to avoid it and instead chose Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Brazil had been on our minds for a while and we wished that we had more days to explore the country. However, with only 5 days at our disposal, we decided to focus on RJ. It is possible to do RJ in 3 days and maybe spend 2 days at Iguazzu Falls. But we decided to take it a little easy and relax in the city instead. My very first impression about RJ was that it was very much like Mumbai, just cleaner and less crowded. The women were pretty and the men looked like gundas :-). The weather was nice and warm, just the way I like it. Stark differences between the rich and the poor were evident everywhere. You could clearly see the favelas (slums) from the beaches. Aerial view of the city Favelas as viewed from Ipanema Beach There were many things that we wer