Rio de Janeiro Beyond the Postcard: A Practical First-Timer's Guide
Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautifully situated cities on earth — granite peaks rising 700m from the Atlantic, Atlantic Forest in the city limits, beaches that curve around the bay like a postcard that happens to be real. It is also a city with stark inequality and street crime concentrated in specific patterns. Both facts exist at the same time. The second one, understood precisely, makes the first one accessible.
Henrik Vinter
