Tip: Things to do in Rio that is not Carnival

If you think that Rio during the Carnival only has it, you were almost right, I said almost. Why? Because its several other things to do before, during and after Carnival, yes the city still has life after it (in my particular opinion a way better life).

Among the things to do here I can list some great ones:

- Go tracking, is cheap, healthy, fun and the best is that you can find out some great spots and have nice views from the city, including some of the famous places, like Sugar Loaf (easy to walk to the first hill and not that hot), Corcovado (this is more hardcore, but not impossible since I have done myself, and the best way is trough the same path that the train goes, one of the best views), Pedra da Gavea (hard also, this I gave up) and Pedra Bonita (that you can also after can go hang gliding).

- If you like the beaches but tired of the crowd go to some waterfalls, the great part of them are localized inside the Urban Forest (Parque da Tijuca) and the access is not difficult, you can get a easy one trough Horto near to Jardim Botanico. Clean and refreshing water and the best, inside the forest.

- Ride a bike near to the beach or rent one by the lake (Lagoa), it is a nice ride and after to refresh yourself you can get a cold and sweet coconut water.

- Also by the lake you can rent one of the boats for a romantic ride inside the lake and see the sunset

- But if you cannot get away from the beaches a nice option is to wake up earlier and go to Prainha, Grumari or Joatinga, very beautiful ones but a little far from the south area (its located after Barra da Tijuca). And if you wanna go even further why not to cross the bay and go to Niteroi...very nice beaches there, like Itacoatiara (full of young and beautiful people like Ipanema), Camboinhas (my favorite, more family friendly, calm waters) or Piratininga.

- If you wanna dance at night you can go to Lapa, that has several options as bars and clubs, but do not expect too much, to get completely away from Carnival there, probably on the clubs and streets that is what you gonna hear.

- And as usual it always have the option mall, movie and sometimes some museums.

I hope that you like and have fun!!!!

bjusss

Filling it up

Lately we are so focus on ourselves that we forgot about the others and mainly about what really matters, what really counts in the end of the day. But its also so funny that even that we are so self centered our worries seems to be more and more shallow as days goes by, we do not take care of what we are, we are so compromised to look good on the picture that we do not see the big one, we do not go deep on our problems to find the reason and look for the solution, we wanna just the antidote for all of our pain, suffer, sadness and frustrations.

Although we know that is no antidote for none of them unless we look inside of our core and start to do something to heal it, in a internal process of cure. No, I do not think that we have to look for perfection, cause this is impossible, but yes we should look to become a better person, first for ourselves and them for the others.

To complain about things is very very easy, a piece of cake and I can tell it as a fact. I see myself so many times as a complainer and I keep forgetting how wonderful, lucky and blessed I am. Yes I complain, not for huge things, mainly for the small things that keep adding on our daily glass and the worst thing is when it spills it out goes to the ones I love the most and has nothing it. And then is a like a chain reaction I got angry and spill it one somebody else that also get angry and probably will do the same back to me or pass it ahead.

So instead of keep filling your glass with bad things until it spills it out, stop when a bad feeling get over you and start take your sanity and your truly you. Breathe and try to find out why this is happening and better than this see if it is not something that you can move on without hurting yourself and the others, the best solutions for our problems are inside of us. Enjoy, be happy and Carpe Diem!

bjusss