Celebrate Rio can be downloaded from Lonely Planet’s Rio destination page (lonelyplanet.com/brazil/rio-de-janeiro), which has been completely overhauled for visitors to Rio. Brazil travel experts will be updating news regularly throughout the Games at www.lonelyplanet.com/news/rio-olympics.
The brand new 85-page ebook’s experts introduce readers to the Cidade Maravilhosa, carioca (Rio locals) culture, and its exciting sights, sounds and tastes, stunning landscapes and world-renowned beaches, festivals and events.
For travellers heading there this year, Celebrate Rio tours through the neighbourhoods hosting 2016 Games venues this month, featuring hangouts, beaches, arts, markets and more to check out while you’re there – even maps to navigate your way around.
Neighbourhoods include:
- Barra da Tijuca & Western Rio
- Copacabana & Leme
- Deodoro
- Zona Norte
Both inspirational and informative year-round, Celebrate Rio recommends the top experiences in Brazil’s most-visited city, as well as indispensable information on health, costs, safety and transportation, including maps and essential phrases. Special chapters include “Family Travel in Rio,” “LGBT Rio” and “Accessible Rio,” which offers advice for travellers with disabilities.
Planning a trip? Celebrate Rio recommends what to read, watch, eat and drink before you go – and to really get into the Rio rhythm, readers can click the Spotify playlist in the “Music of Rio” chapter, which features samba, bossa nova, tropicália and Música Popular Brasileira.
“Flavours of Rio” serves up the best of the city’s unique and mouth-watering food scene, including juice bars, pay-by-weight restaurants and feiras (produce markets). Similarly, “Drinks of Brazil” dives into the vivacious bar scene, including night clubs, jazz bars, open-air cafes and botecos (lively neighborhood bars). It also shows you how to make and enjoy two of the country’s classic drinks, água de coco and the caipirinha.
Top things to do in Rio:
Planning a trip? Celebrate Rio recommends what to read, watch, eat and drink before you go – and to really get into the Rio rhythm, readers can click the Spotify playlist in the “Music of Rio” chapter, which features samba, bossa nova, tropicália and Música Popular Brasileira.
“Flavours of Rio” serves up the best of the city’s unique and mouth-watering food scene, including juice bars, pay-by-weight restaurants and feiras (produce markets). Similarly, “Drinks of Brazil” dives into the vivacious bar scene, including night clubs, jazz bars, open-air cafes and botecos (lively neighborhood bars). It also shows you how to make and enjoy two of the country’s classic drinks, água de coco and the caipirinha.
Top things to do in Rio:
- Ipanema Beach
- Copacabana Beach
- Pão de Açúcar
- Cristo Redentor
- Floresta da Tijuca
- Santa Teresa
Lonely Planet has also released an updated edition of their complete guide to Rio de Janeiro (9th Ed. / June 2016) and a new instalment in their latest guidebook series,Make My Day: Rio de Janeiro (1st Ed. / June 2016).
A free city guide to Rio is also available on Lonely Planet’s Guides mobile app, which will feature new Language sections, including Portuguese, starting 5 August 2016.
In addition, Lonely Planet has released a free Accessible Rio city guide, available for download from http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/brazil/accessible-rio-1/.
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