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 by racheljapi
Hours are: 9am-10pm Mon-Fri; 9am-2pm Sun
Another bonus: You can get internet for a fairly good price. I don't remember exactly but it was only a couple of reais for a half hour. Leave a Comment
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 street markets - rio de
janeiro by dvideira
The scent of the herbs is so great...
To those markets to take place, one or more streets are closed to traffic and the traders set up their stalls as early as daybreak. They shout their wares with lively cries that are sometimes sung with sense of humour -always based on contemporary issues.
The little stalls offer an abundance of vegetables and fresh leaves It is possible to buy artichoke, asparagus, beetroot, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, aubergines, numerous types of lettuce and also some veggies that may be unfamiliar to you like chuchu, jiló, maxixe, aipim ( or manioc root ) and brazilian pumpkins - which are used as side dishes as well as to make a delicious dessert called "doce de abóbora." Leave a Comment
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 The Anjengelica side by racheljapi
This place is located on the corner of Jaoana Anjengelica and Visconde de Piraja Leave a Comment
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 by racheljapi
The group I meet with is very relaxed and everyone is entitled to a demo (free) class. It's located at Victory Academia in Laranjeiras. The address is Rua Conde de Baependi 71. Come by and check it out or locate one near you.
FYI: We have traditional Rodas every Saturday at 3pm. Everyone is welcome to watch Leave a Comment Phone: 2265-9099
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 street market - rio de janeiro by dvideira
The place to buy fruits and vegetables is your neighborhood's street market or "feira livre."
All week round there is always one of them going on.
Here, a list of the markets by week day, street and neigborhood:
( just those in the south zone of the city )
SUNDAYS
. Av. Lineu de Paula Machado - Lagoa
. Pça Tenente Gil Guilherme - Urca
. Av. Augusto Severo - Glória
. Pça Serzedelo Correia - Copacabana
MONDAYS
. Rua Henrique Dumont - Ipanema
. Rua Gustavo Sampaio - Leme
. Rua Vicente de Souza - Botafogo
TUESDAYS
. Rua Particular Infoshopping - Catete
. Rua Barão de Macaubas - Botafogo
. Pça General Osório - Ipanema
WEDNESDAYS
. Rua Maria Eugênia - Humaitá
. Pça Edmundo Bittencourt - Copacabana
. Pça Nicarágua - Botafogo
THURSDAYS
. Rua Conde Lages - Glória
. Rua Ronald de Carvalho / Min. Viveiros de
Castro - Copacabana
. Pça Nossa Sra Auxiliadora - Leblon
FRIDAYS
. Pça Nossa Senhora da Paz - Ipanema
. Viaduto Jardel Filho - Laranjeiras
. Rua Felicio dos Santos - Santa Tereza
. Pça Santos Dumont - Gávea
SATURDAYS
. Rua Prof. Ortiz Monteiro - Laranjeiras
. Rua Frei Leandro - Jardim Botânico
. Rua Paulo Barreto - Botafogo
They happen always in the mornings and the prices will go down as time passes.... Going there around 10/11 am is a good idea...
The pics in here were taken on Rua Prof. Ortiz Monteiro, Laranjeiras. Leave a Comment
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 street markets - rio de
janeiro by dvideira
Oranges and Limes - There are many varieties of oranges in Brazil, including "limas" (which are not limes, but a bittersweet orange - very good ones for a fresh squeezed juice ) and laranja-lima, very sweet and tasty Tangerines are very, very sweet also. Limes are called "limão galego" and lemons "limão Tahiti."
Brazilian pineapples are called "abacaxi." They are white inside and much sweeter than the ones from Hawai.
Other exotic fruits like fruta do conde, carambolas, jaboticabas, passionfruit, acerola and cashews (great for fresh juices)
Papayas of different sizes, Mangoes come in several delicious varieties, from little green ones, known as "Carlotinhas" to enormous red ones.
We use Avocados ( Abacates ) in here for desserts and milk drinks called "vitaminas" - not for salads ( unless you are going to a Mexican restaurant, of course... )
And the Figs..... in fact two of these little boxes of figs seen here ended up going home with me... I just love them. Leave a Comment
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 peppers by dvideira
And there are a whole variety of peppers.
From the ones you're familiar with like bay leaves to ones you've never seen before.
Try the extremely hot Brazilian peppers called malagueta ( seen at the top pic ) - the small round orange-like ones are murupi peppers.
At the botton pic, from left to right:
the big red ones are called "dedo de moça"
( young lady's finger )
pimenta-de-cheiro from the Amazon and
more murupi peppers... Leave a Comment
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 Community School in
Rocinha by Ipanema_Princess
We were very pleasantly surprised about it. The tour takes you to Rio's biggest favela called "Rocinha" and a smallest one called "Vila Canoas". The group is small and the guide is very well known and accepted by the favela's inhabitants.
Rocinha is quite fascinating because you realize that it is a city inside the city, with its own hospital, schools, cyber cafe and even...a Mc Donald ! You'll also be able to see some of the projects developped in Favela : painting or crafts for the kids and also a community school.
The guide will give you a good explanation of the favela's situation, with it's good and bad sides (drug traffic, gangs war...). But the people in general are very friendly, and happy that some people come to actually see them. Because they suffer from a very bad reputation. I think that visiting the Favela is very important to understand Rio. Because the Favelas are everywhere, but many people talk about it without never having been there (even the locals).
Of course, YOU SHOULD NEVER GO THERE BY YOURSELF. OK ? But you can totally go if for example you're invited by a friend that lives there. If you don't, the Favela Tour is a good option. I've heard that there are many tours now. But the first one and probably the best one is the one organized by Marcelo Armstrong. Leave a Comment
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