Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
January 2023 • Rio is a conundrum: beautiful yet bedraggled, seductive yet sinister, intoxicating yet sobering. Even with the benefit of having a great host who steers you to the best attractions and venues, the city is a workout of jostling, humidity, and random inconvenience. One thing that seems reliably consistent: Cariocas live to have fun. The people of Rio are warm, free-spirited, a vivid melange of races, ethnicities, sexualities, genders. Being among them feels like being at the coolest, most scantily dressed party on the planet.
