:Brazil
Beginning in February 2013 I went to Brazil, thus beginning my 22th trip since I left for the first time in Europe in September 2010.
The special feature of this trip is that it would not have happened without the invitation of my friend and contractor engineering Erico Rocha who offered me to spend some time in his house on one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil.
For that matter, I planned the trip so as to make the Rio Carnival and it turned out that my dates match those of the beginning of his journey round the world six months another friend and entrepreneur engineering, Sebastien Marketer French.
Here is as usual the story of this journey, which I use both memory and analytical narrative (as a diary entry) and whose purpose is to help you decide if Brazil is a country you want to visit, or make you travel without traveling otherwise :).
Rio de Janeiro Carnival :
I rented via AirBnB an apartment in the heart of Santa Teresa, a hilltop neighborhood high on a hill in the heart of Rio, almost rural charm and sometimes looks like Montmartre.
The neighborhood is friendly, lively and beautiful and lends itself to walks unexpectedly into its steep streets, especially since his high position perched reveals magnificent views of Rio when the vegetation cleared.
Danger and insecurity in Brazil:
This flight is a good illustration of the great flaws of Rio: the idea of insecurity in the minds permanently, thrust by the guides as Le Routard and Brazilians themselves who urge us to be very careful because very large inequalities in Brazil and especially in big cities, so the violence and the dangers it can cause.
Especially if there's one thing that was repeated over and over again we is not going in the favelas, these neighborhoods built haphazardly and illegal and deemed to be true for cutthroat those who do not live there.
An anecdote to be convinced, told to me by Erico Rocha as he put me up in the second part of my trip. He was in a taxi in Sao Paulo with his wife and son and the taxi got lost, inadvertently entering a favela. As the favelas are constructed completely anarchic, they are real and there are labyrinths is not easy to get out when we got there by car.
The taxi started to panic, contaminate the other occupants of the car. While the woman Erico out an iPhone to use the GPS, he literally begged store not tempt passersby. The car then struggled to climb a very steep hill, attracting the eyes of many bad people in the street.
Then luckily the driver saw a police car stopped and rushed to go talk to the police officer who was driving (police officers receive some protection in the favelas because if a police officer is killed, a team of highly trained soldiers called BOPA disembark and kill outright "bad guys" known in this neighborhood. this is how it works according to Erico). The driver told the officer he was lost in the favela and the police rushed to show him the way to the exit and asked him to follow him.
Once outside, the taxi warmly thanked the police, saying he had saved her life, adding that he would have a story to tell his wife that night. The police officer then looked at him and said "you're lucky to still be able to tell this story to your wife." You can imagine the mood for Erico and his wife with their baby in the back.
We have in any case strictly followed these instructions and share the flight no further incidents of this type have been deplorable for the rest of the trip
Source : http://blogueur-pro.com/bresil-recit-de-voyage
