This represents your best option for taxi and significantly decreases your chance of being ripped off. Most tourists stay in the Southern Zone (Zona Sul). Copacabana is a mix of middle class and upscale Brazilians and tourists.

After the tragic death of his wife Rebecca in 2015, Rio Ferdinand can definitely be understood for not wanting to focus too hard on reigniting his love life.
However, new reports claim that the footballing ace might nearly be ready to take a step back into the dating world once more – as he’s said to be spending time with More: Condolences sent to Carol Mc Giffin as she announces some upsetting news Read: All the Latest Celebrity News According to an insider, reality babe Kate is ‘smitten’ with 38-year-old Rio, who is now a single father-of-three: sons Lorenz and Tate, ages ten and nine respectively, and five-year-old daughter Tia.
Rio is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. I recommend the following: • Stay in a safe neighborhoods • Do not wear jewelry or a watch, even during the day • Take taxis at night • Read up on the most common scams in Brazil You will most likely arrive in Galeao-Antonio Carolos Jobim International Airport, which serves all international flights. There are several flights per day between Sao Paulo and Rio, almost every hour in fact.
Santos Dumont is close to downtown and a better airport to fly into from other Brazilian cities, if you have a choice.
The book, titled : "After Rebecca died, I just wanted to put everything, the feelings, the hurt, the shock, into a box and leave it there. I felt I didn't have the answers for them, but I wanted to know what they were thinking and feeling.
There is a saying in Brazil, “people make money in Sao Paulo and spend it in Rio.” Rio de Janeiro is one of the few cosmopolitan cities in the world set in a tropical paradise.To kiss someone in a bar counts for nothing and is all part of the evening’s fun.Phone numbers are handed out like popcorn but its odds on they’ll have forgotten your name by the time you come to call.However, it’s important to distinguish between the tourist hype and the truth and the latter you won’t learn by reading your average guidebook. What they don’t realise is that she’s not so much enamoured with their fascinating conversation as with their wallets.Many tourists to Rio de Janeiro arrive in Copacabana and find a girlfriend the same day on the beach. Maybe the girl won’t make it clear that she’s a prostitute but by the end she will fill her pockets one way or another. Few Brazilian women would want to live somewhere like Copacabana simply for the ill fame the place bears.This is the first relationship the former Manchester United footballer has been in since his wife Rebecca Ellison died of breast cancer in 2015, aged just 34.