Rio de Janeiro Is Not What You Think 🇧🇷

Welcome to Rio de Janerio, a city with many faces. Today we explore everywhere from life in a favela to one of the most fancy buildings in all of Brazil! It was also raining nonstop, which is another reason this will be a unique look at Rio. It's going to be a wild ride... let's go!

0:00 - First Night in Favela
1:32 - Talking with World Travellers
3:04 - Rio in the Rain
3:46 - Meeting Aeron, A Local from Rio
4:41 - Museum of Tomorrow
5:01 - Exploring Rio de Janeiro
6:59 - Aeron's Story
8:04 - Staying in a Favela
11:08 - "Rio doesn't need to be changed, it needs to be experienced"
12:13 - An Unexpected Adventure
14:02 - "Feeling that you don't even know exist"

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[junoharpoon]

Well said Aeron! Thanks for sharing your experience in Rio, Dan. I hope there will be more.

[FAEL__L]

"Minas Geraisssxx", she's definitally from Rio 😅

[token]

Fantastic video! Beginning with the rhythmic, thumping drums, and then zooming out for an insider's view of this big, edgy city. Meeting Wouter, and then some stunningly beautiful women (my god, Dan, you're a lucky man!). And the ending, a night at the opera - so unexpected and yet, so refined. I love the feel of Rio in this video. Great job, Dan, gimme more!

[silviastanziola]

Great to see that you're in Rio! I miss the botanical gardens there, such a nice spot. Highly recommend.

[TruthSeeker-zt]

Met you in Mexico City. You're a genuinely nice guy! You do a great job representing Canada :)

[FeigangFei]

that's my city. I stayed there for 4 month in 2003. maybe the best city in the whole world. I still wear my Brazilian jersey I got it there, more than 20 years ago.

[MlleEniALves]

Loved this video, Rio is amazing but what makes it really special is the Brazilian kindness and happiness 😊❤

[dianalauramendez]

OMG the baby with his pacific and playing soccer in that way??? one of the cutest things i´ve ever seen!!! Greetings, Dan

[josephpanzarella]

Hi Dan.
I love Rio. I've been there twice. Where I stayed was a three-minute walk from Ipanema and about 12-minutes from Copacabana.

I visited Teatro Municipal but it was closed when I was there.

One thing I'm strongly against is what is known as "Favela Tourism". These are usually high-priced organized tours in favelas for foreigners.

Favelas are not tourist attractions. They are places where the most marginalized people in Brazil live. These tours come across as rich people from North America and Europe who want to see the animals in their cages.

Which is not at all what you did. You stayed in a hostel that was near a favela. That's not the same as staying in a 5-star hotel at Copacabana and then taking an organized tour into places that foreigners aren't really supposed to see.

I hope you got to eat once at the beautiful, legendary Confeitaria Colombo in downtown Rio. Apart from great breakfast and lunch, it has the city's most iconic desserts. At very affordable prices. It's the sort of place you go to and order five desserts to go to see you through the week.

[ramon]

The final ending was amazing, man. Keep doing this amazing work!

[pedrobarcellos]

This video was very cinematic and yet real! Great job! 💚💛💙

[caiooxvw]

Looks like ure Enjoying Brazil, right? Keep here, man, the external energy to Brazil is awesome. keep the great work

[alexandrelino]

Muito bom o vídeo! Congratulations man

[claracarvalho]

If youd like some art that's more connected to the people who live here, the Museu de Arte de Rio (MAR) is just across the street from the Museu do Amanhã and is much less touristy and always has great exhibitions focusing more in honoring popular traditions and culture, as well as peripheric artists from here. To me, it's a much more rich experience to go there. As I'm writing this, there's an exhibition called Dono do mar, which I really want to go to!

[oskar]

Ok, great video (as usual.) You really have a great way of describing new cities in a good way. I liked the comments about staying in the favela - balancing between not minimizing the dangers while not overstating them.

However, I have to say this, the real knockouts in this show were Aeron and her sister Megan. Such stunners!

[DavidCVdev]

Such a beautiful video. I have been to Rio this January, such an amazing city that definitely do not live up to its bad reputation.

[rayssaoliveira]

You should visit some city in Nordeste like João Pessoa, Fortaleza to see other beach cities. Also Curitiba and Florianópolis are good places to visit. I watch your videos since 2020, I am so glad that you finally came across the world to my country (Brazil). Here the climate is good and the people are usually friendly and happy, but I loved to see you walking in Montreal on Winter full of snow. But in the end we all live under the same sun and the same moon. Are you an INFJ ?it seams by your videos.

[samil]

Good, balanced insight to the favela experience that matches my own view after spending a year in Rio.

[scramblerdoodle]

Hey! Glad you enjoyed your stay in Brazil. Hope you get to visit other Brazilian beauties like Recife and Salvador too :)

I'm Brazilian, lived in France for two years and, I gotta say, most of the time there I was just wishing I was back in my warm and welcoming country
I'm super glad you got to experience the real Rio de Janeiro and not just the touristic stuff gringos usually live here! Hope you managed to visit Lapa and Pedra do Sal at least once too :)

Great stuff, and boas viagens!

[Mephisto-dy]

I recommend you visit the city of Gramado or Balneário Camboriú in Rio Grande do Sul. BC is considered the "Dubai of Brazil, " while Gramado and Canela are two cities known as the "European Brazil" because Brazil is very diverse and has a lot of cultural blending, which is beautiful. The southeastern part of the country has a strong European influence.

Brazil is not just Rio and São Paulo, even though they are the most well-known and famous cities, and they are very important. The country is so vast that, in my entire life, I have only been to two states—Minas Gerais, where I was born, and São Paulo. I've never set foot in Rio or any northeastern state.

Brazil is a continental country, and depending on the distance between states, the cultural and accent differences can be so big that even we Brazilians sometimes struggle to understand each other's slang and expressions. This shows that Brazil is like multiple countries within one. And it's no joke—if you ask an AI or do some research, you'll see that several countries could fit inside Brazil because it is so massive.

Brazil is not poor due to a lack of resources or anything like that. It is actually one of the richest countries in the world. Unfortunately, there is a lot of corruption, and the rich keep getting richer while the poor get poorer. But maybe, in the near future, Brazil could become a global power—we just need a real politician to lead us.

To give you an idea, my dream was to become a scientist, but I gave up because Brazil does not invest in science. They invest in football or things that bring in money, like stadiums, etc. Brazil also has many geniuses who are being wasted, but the potential is there.