Last weekend, Olympic cyclists rode nearly the length of Rio de Janeiro along breathtaking coastlines and windy mountain roads. Crushing hill climbs notwithstanding, with the streets closed to cars ...
The Barra da Tijuca neighborhood is the 21st-century urban ideal that Rio’s power elite wish to show the world. It sprawls. Credit: Kenji Yamamoto on Flickr This is your first of three free stories ...
Driving in downtown Rio de Janeiro the other day, I had to slam on the brakes as a sequined carnival reveler wearing a Speedo and fishnet stockings danced across the thoroughfare. His companion, in ...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — My trek into Tijuca National Park started on a crowded tram that carries tourists up Corcovado Mountain, rising more than 2,000 feet above the city. The big draw here is the ...
R IO DE JANEIRO, Brazil’s sun-soaked metropolis, is bursting with foreign visitors. Their numbers rose to 2.1m in 2025, up by 45% compared with the previous year. To them, Rio i ...