ATLANTIC FOREST AGAIN BUT IN NITEROI and other Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Off The Beaten Path Tips

Rafael in Niteroi by EW

As I told you, the Atlantic Forest covers our coast line and it also provides important national parks like the Parque Nacional da Tiririca, and it takes some parts of Niteroi, and in this enviroment it is possible to see the jaguars, it is not easy because each time they are supposed to be hidden from the men, but they are part of our fauna as well!

Here I am in the Parque da Cidade, the real secrets of my destinations in Rio de Janeiro State

April 29th, 2005

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Off The Beaten Path: IN LOVE WITH NITEROI

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 2, 2005

Rafael in Niteroi by EW

This city always had welcomed me since I came here for the first time when I was 12...some years later, not so much, I am still in Niteroi.

A city which will impress you with so much beauty and human values.

Niteroi is cool and Niteroi is yours!

April 29th April, 2005

This is Boa Viagem Beach and Boa Viagem Island.

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Off The Beaten Path: A NEW YORKER AT PARQUE DA CIDADE

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 2, 2005

An American in Niteroi by RTL

My new friend Elton came to Niteroi to see some unknown places in Rio de Janeiro and he could understand more about the city.

Parque da Cidade is a hill in Niteroi where you can see all over the cities of Rio and Niteroi.

It is free to get there and easy to find, just go to São Francisco Beach and find the street which leads to the hill, it is close to the Restaurant A mineira and São Francisco Church!

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Off The Beaten Path: NITEROI - WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CITY

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 2, 2005

Funny Rafael in the Parque da

Cidade by EW

The heights of Niteroi really makes me crazy, this is the famous BACKYARD which I often talk about!

You should come here and see how gorgeous the beaches are and how incredible our forests are. Niteroi has a great air of happiness and adventure!:)

I took this picture in the Viração Hill which is one of the most unknown places in Rio de Janeiro, at least I take all my friends there!;)

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Off The Beaten Path: THE SOUL OF BRAZIL

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 3, 2005

Elton in São Cristovão by RTL

Great brains in the world wants to know much more about the places they are visiting. I knew that my friend Elton is a very curious person and I took him where the Brazilian Royalty started, and it began in the suburbs of Rio, but in that time it was an exotic forest in a impressive big park! The Quinta da Boa Vista Palace is there to be seen. In São Cristovão.

April 29th, 2005

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Off The Beaten Path: THE STRENGH OF TWO BIG COUNTRIES

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 3, 2005

Rafael and Elton

Brazil and USA has continental lands and both countries carry a wonderful people, people with hope for the future, people who really love their lands!

Elton's visit was exactly like this...seeing our people how they really look like, with no masks and no make up, and he saw a great Brazil.

Quinta da Boa Vista was one of the places that he went, and he knows that only brazilians go there!

He is one of the fewest people from other country to visit a place where our people spend their spare time!

April 29th, 2005

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Off The Beaten Path: YES RIO HAS A ZOO

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 3, 2005

Rio's Zoo by RTL

And a very old one, when these lands belonged to the Brazil's Kingdon and also to the Brazilian Empire, they use to keep the animals of the farm in that corner, when Brazil became a former Republic, around 1889, the New Goverment decided to create a zoo, and until today, it is one of the pleasant places for the Cariocas to go!

April 29th, 2005

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Off The Beaten Path: SOME OF RIO'S CATS

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 3, 2005

it is not Elza but she is a

gorgeous lioness!

Sure she prefered to be in Botswana right now, but she is under fences but even though she was in a good mood posing for me! Maybe she knows that I am a big fan of cats!

A zoo is a way to make people learn more about the wild life. But frankly in my opinion, WE should go to the wild life and see them in freedom!

Freedom is something priceless, and it seems that some people I know like to hold the sense of liberty to him/herself.

People with a little power in the hand like to play being Gods...Thanks to that ideas are killed and animals are under bars!

April 29th, 2005

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Off The Beaten Path: SAND DUNES IN NITEROI

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 4, 2005

Dune and Lagoon of Itaipu - NITEROI

by RTL

Actually it is only one dune, and it is huge, it can be found in Itaipu Beach heading the way to the Ocean Region, very close to the Dunes you will find the Itaipu Lagoon with very strong fish colony!

The food there is super!;)

April 11, 2005

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Off The Beaten Path: INSIDE THE SPACESHIP

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Written by RafaelTheSecond

on May 5, 2005

Rafael with glasses...WOW!