Welcome to Rio known as The Marvelous City with stunning beaches mountainous Landscapes amazing culture incredible food the best sunsets we've ever seen one of the Seven Wonders of the World and so much vibrant energy we spent 5 days exploring Rio and we're going to show you all the best things to do and exactly how much to budget for this trip stay tuned what's up explorers welcome back to our Channel we're the choose here from choose to explore where we teach you guys how to world and save a dollar so we are here in beautiful Brazil
yes none other than Rio de Janeiro and we're super excited cuz this is a place that we've always wanted to visit for such a very long time but it's so far away and the flights are super expensive but we got lucky and we found an abanka flight sale for $431 per person so we jumped on that deal and now we're here New York to Rio De Janeiro so we came here during March 2024 so there were no visa requirements but starting next month there will be visa requirements for Americans and we have all that included
in our Brazil guide Linked In the description below so one of the best things about Rio is that Uber is widely available and it is very affordable so right from the airport we took a uber from the airport to our accommodation and it was about 98 R which is more or less $20 and it was like an hourong Drive which is a great price cuz in New York you drive for 5 minutes and it's $20 so um unfortunately we got here so early early that we couldn't check into our Airbnb yet but our host is
really nice and she let us leave our bags so we're ready to get out and explore Rio de Janeiro so from our Airbnb we walked about 20 minutes down by the water um and pass by Leblon Beach it's a beautiful beach there lots of people it's beautiful temperature right now as well I hope it doesn't get much hotter than this but I really love the streets they have Mosaic tiles and it's just to see and after that we ended up at Zona aul now zon aul is actually a supermarket but they have a lot of
self-service options and a lot of food so we went here and Liv got a mushroom pizza and I got a salami Panini and it was good lots of flavor we also got a coconut water because we're getting into some Adventures today so we got to stay hydrated all together was about 42 r [Music] so we just took a uber it was about 30 minutes and we are here at the national park of Tia and it's a beautiful Green Space it's actually west of Rio De Janeiro but it's beautiful over here and we're going to do
a little hike right baby hike a baby hike so stay tuned and come along with [Music] us we made it here at casatina T I think that's how you say it it's a beautiful waterfall fall and what's really cool about it is it Cascades all the way down some rocks and to get to see the beautiful view you have this tunnel that you can go right through and it's just amazing here not too many people's fresh water so definitely come check this one out right here in tahuka National Park tzuka National Park [Music] all right
so we climbed up some crazy mountains through garbage cans and people on motorbikes but we made it here at Cafe eont but unfortunately it looks like between the hours of 1: and 2 they have like a lunch break where they don't serve food but Liv was tired so she wanted to get a coffee so we came to get a coffee but we're really here for the views it has spectacular views looking out into the different rock formations the different beaches and it's just a really cool Vibe and aesthetic so I highly recommend coming here [Music]
it took about a 30-minute Uber from our place to get us to Prior verela so from the time that we got there to the time that we made it up top was only 15 minutes which is what really accelerated that process is we bought our tickets online beforehand and that allowed us to bypass a lot of people and just go right up to the mountain yes no no waiting in lines so getting up in the cable cars there were so many people packed up in that little box but it definitely felt safe and it was
a cool ride it was quick too I would say less than like 3 minutes yeah it was very short I felt um but now we're up here and I saw a monkey I think it's a monkey that I've never seen before I've never seen animal like that it was calm it didn't attack anybody so that's good but don't feed the monkeys there's signs about [Music] that all right so we thought we were all the way up at Sugarloaf Mountain but we weren't there's actually another cable ride that you got to take up here and it's
perfect because it gives me more time on the cable ride um it's a beautiful another quick ride and up here is even higher even better views the Sun is setting over the mountains behind and I just can't take in all the beauty here in Brazil Rio de Jan so nice [Music] all right so right after seeing Sugarloaf Mountain on the cable car we were hungry so we headed over to Yaya's restaurant and it was really close by and it was so good so it's a black woman-owned restaurant right here in Brazil and it has a
lot of black Brazilian Cuisine and flavors and these are some complex flavors we started off with drinks and I got a coconut lemonade and it was great yes and my drink was actually pineapple with some chamomile and it was really good so for starters we had the akaji platter and it was really good um it had shrimp it had fritters and it was so flavorful and we decided to share another shrimp dish you know live only shrimp or rice and it was good because it had so much flavor so it had rice and she says
it's her favorite rice it was like really large grained rice and it was so good just on its own but then adding the shrimp was really good and then it was like a shrimp stew and then also there was cassava powder yeah crust right uh asaba flour yeah and just I highly recommended lot of really good food here yes good flavors good texture good good place to go good morning good morning another beautiful day here in Rio De Janeiro Brazil as you can see it is quite early the sun is not even risen because we
are getting up to see one of the best places for sunrise in all of Rio so stay tuned you don't want to miss this one guys let's go 4:30 [Music] all right so we're here literally the only light that's here are these flashlights it's still 5:30 in the morning the sun has not risen yet but we are heading up to go see the beautiful view so stay with us guys let's hope that we capture these amazing views all right so we made it here as you can see the sun is rising and there are so
many beautiful views but there are a lot of people a lot of photographers here trying to direct people but I don't care I'm going to get the picture I want and I don't care who tells me cuz honestly I don't speak Portuguese so I don't know what they saying anyway but spectacular views here right so we walked over to the other side of the parking lot to the helicopter pad section there's a lot less people here and it's a really great spot to just get some Drone footage and you can also even see Christ the
Redeemer from here literally one of the most beautiful sunrises that I've ever seen with the mountains the Lakes the sun peeking through Rio is beautiful if you like more details on morante Dona Mara I have an entire blog post on chp.com so check it [Music] [Music] out let me tell you how amazing the people here in Brazil are so we were at mirante and we were trying to get down to the Christ the Redeemer trable car area but the Ubers were so far away they were like 15 minutes away and we were trying to get
here for 7:00 to be one of the first people to that c the Redeemer but we couldn't get a ride but amazing people here in the parking lot we talked to these people in our broken portuguese translator and they took us here and we tried to give them money but they didn't even want it but now we meet it here at Paneras there corcovado and it's a little bit before 7:00 there is a line here but let's see if we can be one of the only people first people at Christ the [Music] Redeemer so it
is currently 7:31 and we are in the 7:00 boarding group and they are just now letting us enter um so let's see what time we actually get up there but [Music] yeah all right so we made it here to one of the seven wers of the world we're on the second bus to get here to Christ the Redeemer and it has incredible views so many amazing views the Sun is up now but there's also so many people even though we were there on the second bus so this is also the perfect place for any special
moment or activity you have for example this guy just proposed his fiance now at the Christ of Redeemer and it was great to see it right behind Rio and Christ the Redeemer so one thing that really is cool is in the place of Christ the Redeemer was supposed to be the lady who abolished slavery in Brazil but she said no I'm not the Redeemer of men Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of men and that is why Christ the Redeemer is on top of this hill for the most beautiful panoramic views in the [Music] city all
right so just 15 minutes away from Christ redeemer is Plage Cafe and so we got here right at 9:00 when they open up and everyone was waiting in line to take a great picture so we did the same and after we got our photos in we came to sit and eat and have breakfast so let's see how it is honestly if you guys can see my head right now it is hot in we've been up since 4:30 in the morning and it wasn't so cool um hot but now I am baking fet M right now
all right so I just finished eating at PL Cafe I ended up getting the vegetarian lasagna and it was pretty good I don't know why I thought there was going to be noodles in it it was just eggplant but it was really good really good cheese and I enjoyed it but once you leave the cafe and you start walking they have this beautiful garden and they have these amazing trees I originally thought that they were palm trees but when I look up I see a bunch of monkeys up top coming to eat the food but
not just that they have the o o I forget the name of the fruit but in Jamaica we just called them apples but they have these beautiful fruit and I wish I could get them but the monkeys are hogging all of them all right so it's midday now about like 12:00 and we walk down right from our Airbnb and we're at prior de Leblon which is Leblon Beach and what's good y' and let's just say it is active out here there are so many people and they all have their own beach umbrellas they are enjoying
and having a good time so we got to get it in [Music] too all right so we're in Brazil so you know we have to get really good assai so we went to ASA which is Amazon sustainable action asai and Liv got the what I got the pure asai bowl and it was really good it's really cool because you just go up to the kiosk and add what you want to your asai bowl I got half asai half kopu I think it's called but listen it is so good it's Amazonian super fruit and I highly
recommend it guys it's the Koop the I'm Sor Koopa wazu I think get that one get that one it's so good all right so we're walking back to our Airbnb and what I will say Brazilians are beautiful fit people listen I thought I'd look good with my shirt off but I just seen a couple wom with a six-pack on their upper back and their lower back so I don't I can't compare with that everybody works out here 18 pack versus my six-pack ain't it all right so we were just walking back home and right there
on the beach we saw this charismatic guy making drinks so you know we had to get one we got a national drink of Brazil which is the caparini and it's so good it's lime it's rum sugar so much good flavor and I don't drink but I got the coconut lots of flavor and hers was only 20 R and mine was only 9 R yes right by Le blond [Music] be so we went to this place called B the Arda I think that's what it's called but but um it was really good I got a Brazilian
dish which is Escondido I think it's called it was really good it had like pulled meat it had mashed potatoes uh parmesan it was lots of flavor in there I highly recommend it it was a shepherd's pie that he got and I got um it's something that reminded me of a pastei from Aruba oh yeah but um it was actually something called of the Gods and it had um it was filled with two kinds of cheeses no like four it was like an Bri gorgona and something else but it was all really [Music] good all
right and we made it to Epona right before the sunset if you can see that over there it's sunsets right over the mountains and it's a beautiful view iima is definitely another Beach right next to leblan but this beach honestly is a lot prettier it looks prettier there's a lot more tourists that are here and there's a lot more vendors so this is a lot of things catching my eye I need to buy I got to get away we walked all the way on the boardwalk and we made it here to these rocks where it
has an amazing view of the sunset right over the rocks in Rio de Janeiro I absolutely love this this is definitely the best place that I've seen for a sunset so a really good thing about this beach is that you don't even have to go anywhere all the people come to you with their drinks with their food they'll come and serve it right [Music] right for dinner here we ended up at brto cuz I really wanted to get good Brazilian steak and we walked all the way up Copa Cabana Beach and it's another beautiful beach
here and we made it here so I got the steak with fries eggs rice and it was great it was a picana steak and lots of flavor here live God a banana Fritter she says it kind of reminded her of Auntie Anne's pretel if you know you know but all together was about a 100 R so about $20 for the two of us for dinner so pretty good price now we're going to head back home good morning good morning another beautiful day here in Rio de Janeiro so we got woken up to this beautiful sound
of the Waves Bond and we are heading to get the day started the people here are so friendly um and yeah it's like 5:55 about to be 6:00 but you know we got to be early we got to start our days early cuz you know choose to explore we always choose to explore we got things to [Music] do we made it here it's around 6:30 in the morning and it's just us and one other group here to take pictures so it's good it's beautiful and you can live out your dream of being the video vixen
and the Beautiful video not a vix [Music] all right so these steps were designed by sailor on who was fixing his stairs in front of his house there's over 200 stairs and there's over 2,000 tiles now and people from all over the world start contributing to the tiles and the Ceramics and it's really cool to see so many bright beautiful colors beautiful tiles from all over the world [Music] all right if you want more information on the Sailor Ro steps check out chp.com I have an entire blog post on it all right so right after
we left the steps we went right across the street to this restaurant and we had some delicious delicious asai nice and refreshing what while we're sitting here and we're watching all the people coming in and out come early because there are so many people here and it's only 8:00 right now the vendors are coming out it's good to support the local economy so definitely come and support [Music] them so from escadia Saron we walked up the hill let may say it was a mountain it was a mountain in order to get us straight vertical mountain
in order for us to get here to park the that's ruinas which is a super cool ruined mansion with a really nice art gallery but the even though it was a long walk it's on Google Maps it says it's going to take 12 minutes but with stops it probably took us like 30 minutes right take an Uber okay don't walk just take an Uber well we're here it's beautiful and this has one of the most beautiful views of Sugarloaf Mountain where we were on our first day so definitely would recommend it it also has like
a look like a concert hall different women's shops and market so highly recommend coming here lons of souvenirs you can buy and I'm just going to relax for [Music] now so we just took a uber from the ruins Park and we pulled up to the BM Jim I apologize Portuguese is very hard for me to pronounce but I really love this spot it's very affordable they have promotions that are Monday through Sunday so I ended up getting this fried fish and it was phenomenal broccoli rice and mashed potatoes and I am so full right now
and it's a great breakfast Choice yeah I actually got broccoli rice as well and some beans with kava flour and like AO almost it was really good and also some juice highly recommend it [Music] guys all right so next up we went to sterer Cafe and I got a really good latte with oat milk and then as afterwards we walk towards U Museum Joe ammana which is like the Museum of tomorrow and it's really cool here they have a lot of shops lined up it's right by the ocean so there's tons of beautiful water boats
here so I really like it this area kind of reminds me of like a European area it looks a lot different than the other parts in Rio that we've been to which is cool but I had to get my $2 assai right from the street cards very good and listen everybody here takes card even the street cards so now we're here at the Museum deam Mano and let's [Music] enter so I'm out here in Brazil listen my god listen this New York connection right here how things happen it's funny how things my first day I
actually my controller broke and my man is out here so I had to link up with him I had to get the controller so you're a fool if you don't ask people when you have connections you're a fool so he showed me love he brought the controller and we got to chop it up listen the first time we ever link is in Rio Brazil it's not even in New York it's in Brazil so appreciate you my brother no doubt anytime so here on Coba Cabana Beach on Sundays they actually block off this whole road so
only pedestrians can go this way so definitely a cool place to be to watch people and just enjoy over here right yeah soopa Cabana is a beautiful beach it's a beach that I've heard about since I was a kid so I'm so happy to finally be here but the sand is super soft white sand there's a lot of people with umbrellas and beach chairs and it's just a great place to be at the beach Liv got her 75th cup of assai right yeah it's really good but definitely come to the beach together because it's the
cheapest yet at the beach this one was not even $2 for this cup and it had oats and all of that as well so on the beach we keep seeing these different corn stands and a lot of people eating them and getting them and I was like who wants hot corn and it's 96Β° outside but I decided to stop and get it I think it's called Milo Verde and this is very good they get the corn in the cob they cut it off and then they give you different uh toppings with garlic salt butter really
good I highly recommend it and it's only 10 R which is like $2 [Music] really big time the [Music] be good morning good morning another beautiful day here in Rio and it's a lot brighter than it usually is and we say good morning because I let the queen sleep in you know we slept in like 8:00 you know that's sleeping in for us but we're ready to get this day started we're going to get some breakfast and still got a lot more to do so for breakfast we walked to BB lanches which is right here
in the leblan area um Liv had to get her favorite CUA soup her 16th one I got the pineapple with the mint in it I love this one as well we also got the Brazilian cheese bread called po de kesu I highly recommend getting that and also some different breakfast pastries I really enjoy it and it's inexpensive all together this was like 30 R which is like $6 for breakfast we stopped at new Cafe which is right by Leblon Beach and it's a really cute little cafe it's similar to somewhere in Bali all the Aesthetics
I ordered a really great dish I got the uh sourdough toast with avocado and tomatoes and must mushrooms and it was so good I also got a cappuccino with um almond milk and then what did you get I got the papaya fruit bowl and it was actually papay with granolas kiwis blueberri strawberries and really good all together this was about 85 R which is really good so then we took an hourong ride from Rio all the way to Pedra de telegrafo which is a far ride it was only about 80 R again which is good
price for how far away it is from there you could take a motorbike up about 20 minutes it saves you a lot of time when you're walking but we decided to walk up um The Walk was pretty easy we just followed Google Maps and went around to the trail head and now we have about 30 more minutes up to the Rock in the Viewpoint it's not a choose to explore destination without hiking so you ready my love we got the energy from breakfast so she says also it'll bring bug spray so oh and water you're
not going to make without [Music] water so it took us about an hour from the bottom all the way to the top but we made it here and it's a beautiful Viewpoint here now the reason why everybody comes here is because of the effect it looks like you're hanging off the edge of a cliff but really there's a rock underneath you so it's definitely safe you will get a little scared when you get there cuz just from how high it is but we waited in line to take the photos it took us about 30 minute
weight because everybody comes and they take like 10 minutes each photo which is crazy but I mean you deserve it you did this long hike and you made it to this Viewpoint so get your Pi in um there is a guy up here that will uh take your photos for you for five real which is like $1 per photo so you guys can do that if you want really good pictures as [Music] well all right so while we were in line waiting to take our picture at Cafe Plage the lady in front of us was
really nice and she was showing us all these really beautiful pictures of like really nice water and telling us exactly where to go to find it and she actually typed it into our phone and everything so we saved it on our map it was ilad do giio so we just just went there and um I don't think it was the same place that she meant to take us to so it was um we really just took a short boat ride like 1 minute across the water and we ate at a restaurant called Akbar at akbar's
restaurant and it was okay and then afterwards my food was phenomenal I got this the mix skewers the chicken with the bacon I got the um Carnet y listen mine was really good mine was okay I had the shrimp Bobo but the shrimp Bobo that I had at Yaya was like phenomenal so it didn't really compare to that one um and then afterwards we had some gelato right up the street and that was pretty good it was self-served gelato and now we walked a little bit further up the street from where the boat L us
off and now we're at PRI deara deuka I'm sorry it's on the screen so this is a really nice Beach uh the water looks nicer than the water that we saw at the other beaches so far in Rio so this is a really nice relaxing time that we're having and not just that it's a lot less people here as well yeah [Music] all right so we're here at Pedro D on a Monday night and if you know anything about this area it's where they have the block party every single Monday after 8:00 so right here
it's so many people it's so Lively here they play Ensemble music they're dancing they have a bunch of drinks a bunch of food and what really surprises me is everybody still takes cars even though there's like different stalls it's really cool it's a real good vibe You Can Dance you can drink you can just have a good time so every Monday come to the parties at Pedro [Music] doal good morning good morning it's our last and final day here in Rio and we got up early took uh Uber to the airport and it only took
about 25 minutes which is fantastic and Uber only cost around $14 which is also fantastic and we made it here at the Rio de Janeiro airport so we had an amazing time in Rio and you can't wait to get back here there's so much more to explore in the gigantic country of Brazil and we haven't even scratched the surface yeah so if you need any more details to plan your Brazil trip check out chex.com we have a bunch of blogs on Brazil and also our explore Brazil travel guide so check it all out so thank
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