Scenic South America: 11 nights from Bridgetown with Scenic Eclipse
5 Nov 2024

Devil's Island

Recife

Recife and Olinda interpret the typical coastal area of north-eastern Brazil, one city is located on the hill, the other is at the river delta. One city was founded by the Portoguese while the other by the Dutch.
Pernambuco Region Recife, in accordance with the commercial character of its Dutch founders, is an occupied, modern and efficient city. Recife is the second largest city in the north-east of Brazil; in the northern zone there are many pleasent green disctricts, surrounded by museums and parks, while in the south there is the modern beach district of BoaViagem. Other beaches can be easily reached and there is also the nightlife that people expect from a city of almost 2 milion of Brazilians.

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (whose name means January River in Portoguese) is a city in Brazil and the capital of the homonymous confederate state. Its population is almost 6,186,710 inhabitants (according to 2009 IBGE census), and its surface is 1,256 km2 while the population in the metropolitan area is almost 12 million habitants. Rio is the Brazil's second largest city after São Paulo and it was the capital of the state from 1763 until 1960, after Salvador da Bahia and before Brasilia.
The city is famous for its tourist attractions including: the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, Art Nouveau statue of Jesus called Cristo Redentor located on Mount Corcovado, the Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf) with its cable car, and its annual carnival, the most famous in the world. In Rio de Janeiro there is the largest forest within an urban area, theTijuca forest.