What Can $100 Get In RIO DE JANEIRO?
good morning everyone today we're back in the beautiful city of rio de janeiro and we're in the neighborhood of copacabana, so the plan for today's video is that we're going to be traveling this area here and we're going to mention the cost of everything that we do, so like food, attractions, transport, we're going to mention everything and then see how much the day will cost us and we do have a target of a hundred dollars so we're gonna try and spend around a hundred dollars overall, so we'll see how that goes. and that also includes the accommodation here so we're staying at a hotel called hotel atlantico praia and this is 260 reais per day and that also includes breakfast and it has a swimming pool on the rooftop as well. so check our view out from the room so this is what you can get for around 46 dollars, probably the most famous beach in brazil great location and since this video is about the cost of traveling rio we're going to talk about the sponsor of this video which is a company that we've been using for the past five years called wise, formerly known as transferwise. so wise is an international account with over 50 currencies and services to send, spend or receive money internationally. the main reason that we've been using them the past five years is because of their instant and cheap money transfer service during this time we used them to send money to places like here brazil, the us, portugal and india. and that's because as you guys know we have families in different countries in the world and we also have bank accounts in different places so every time we needed to send or receive money abroad we would go and check online in different websites and wise always have the best transaction fees that's why we always use them. and another thing that we like about them
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and the reason we've come here to leme is to do a trail that goes to the top of this hill, there's a fort on top and it's a really nice trail with some amazing views so the entrance is just over on this side and i'll let you know how much it costs. so we've entered the fort, it's called forte do leme or forte duque de caxias and the last time we came here i think we paid... was it four reais? yes. yeah four reais but this time it's for free. so i don't know if it's since the pandemic it's for free so yeah that's obviously good. Carols just filming some little
monkeys, look at them! oh there's about four isn't there? yeah they're everywhere around here theres another one there. where? oh yeah they're jumping around. hello wow wow i don't think we usually saw this many. no maybe they're looking for food. yeah. i don't know, but we don't have anything. the cool thing about this trail is that it's really easy as well, i think it's pretty quick. yeah it's 15 or 20 minutes, it's uphill but it's not that hard you can do it, anyone can do it i think. yeah any level of fitness i think you can do this
so right in the entrance you get these huge cannon things here, look at the size of this! wow is that the.. look at that, that's not even a cannon, what is that? look at the size of it i don't know how to pronounce it. Howitzer Krupp, yeah sounds german or something yeah look at the inside of this thing whoa. so this thing has a range of 12 kilometers, 360 degrees, well yeah i could tell that it spins
all the way around. so this fort was originally built in 1776 so it is a really old one and right now we're on top of it, so that's those canon missile things, whatever you call them down there. and you get views all the way around, and look at this view, this is probably one of the best views that you'll get of the sugarloaf mountain, so you can see both of the the mountains there, amazing views. and this place is completely underrated, barely
anybody knows about it. yeah and you have super nice views of the sugarloaf mountain and all of the copacabana beach as well and you can also see cristo, the christ the redeemer yeah but i guess people don't know about this place, only the the brazilians know but i think foreigners... i think even a lot of brazilians don't know about it for it to always be this empty yeah and now it's free so yeah it's another reason to come. and we're not going to visit there today
but there's the sugarloaf mountain which is one of the most famous attractions in rio de janeiro and the entrance fee to go there is a 120 reais if you are a foreigner, but if you are from rio you will pay half the price and yeah the the views from there is i think the most beautiful of the the city you can see everywhere and it's just an awesome spot to visit yeah and if you go there i recommend just going before sunset because the sun goes down here, and you just get an amazing sunset view so definitely gotta visit that place and then on this side you get this incredible view. there you go copacabana and leme we're staying somewhere around there. and then back in the distance you can see dois irmaos which we made a video of, pedra the gavea and that's the jesus christ statue. and we're also not going to be visiting the jesus statue but it is obviously probably the most famous spot to see. yeah and the entry ticket is 82 when it's low season and 104 reais when it's high season. yeah so obviously you
definitely gotta do that as well, all these points so that you see you can pretty much climb and yeah you get amazing unique views from different spots and on the other corner there is the fort of copacabana which is the popular one, people have breakfast and lunch there right? yeah it's a very nice spot for breakfast. yeah but this one you get way better views and nobody comes there yeah i prefer this spot too. yeah there's just no restaurants or anything here that's why so time to chill at the beach, so like we said it's not really that busy on this part, pretty empty. and carol it's boiling today. oh yeah the sand is boiling. yeah scorching hot sand. so first things
first, sunblock. so we've just got our own little beach towel here but i asked the guy back there and he said each beach chair is about five reais, five reais each and then the sun umbrella is... did he say 10 reais? yeah 10 reais so yeah pretty good. yeah so just like the last time we were here the sea is really rough today, loads of waves everywhere, loads of people surfing today though over here. waves are good for surfing, man but it's ice cold like painful. yeah and just like everywhere in brazil you have the people playing football you weren't joking the water is like painful. yeah like in the algarve, very very cold i don't think i've ever seen the water that cold. yeah but sometimes
it's like that in rio it's not like in the northeast where the the water is usually warm here it's usually cold. yeah i didn't realize it could get to the point where it hurts though yeah. like painfully cold. so we're not gonna eat on the beach in this video but the last time we came to copacabana we did eat stuff here on the beach, they have loads of different snacks that time we ate some fried snacks so they have loads of stuff like that, loads of drinks they have the acai, alcoholic drinks, so loads of beach vendors passing by selling all sorts so you don't even really need to go to a restaurant, you can just eat loads of little snacks here and yeah that will fill you up, but we're gonna go to a proper restaurant soon so we found this cool restaurant here right at the end of leme beach, check out the view this spot is called mureta do leme and i think i'm going to go for this, file de frango grelhado so grilled chicken and that's 35 reais. do you know what you're gonna get? grilled fish for 38 reais. 38 reais, that's like touristy price i guess? yeah but it's not that bad. no it's not bad at all. but you can find cheaper options if you go to the
other streets, not in the boardwalk here but it's not bad for beach prices. yeah especially for this view right here. so we also got a water here that's 5.50 reais, carol got a pepsi for seven reais and the alcohol.. so this is all beer, the cheapest one is 12 that's from the tap, and the most expensive is 18. and then the mixed drinks like the famous caipirinha you can get that for around 22 at the lowest and then the most expensive drink is 27 or 32 if you get it imported so we just came back to our hotel room quickly, just to have a quick shower and change clothes because our other stuff was really sweaty from all that walking. and now we're just ordering
an uber to a place called parque lage, how much is that? 16 reais. for how many minutes does it say? no but it's not far from here, but i suppose it's like 10 15 minutes. all right 16 reais so it turns out this spot parque lage is also for free so i guess we're not spending any money on the attractions that were choosing today, that wasn't intentional by the way, i thought you actually had to pay to come to this spot too but you don't. and it is also a nature area just like the other attraction, so yeah look at this looks beautiful and this right here is the main highlight, this beautiful building here. so here you'll get a better shot of the building and the beautiful garden, so as you can see it's right beneath the jesus christ statue as well like the the armpit of jesus so amazing backdrop. so the building is from
the 1920s from an industrialist called henrique lage and it's where he lived with his wife that was an italian opera singer, and it was apparently designed by an italian architect. i don't know if that's italian architecture but it does look different, might be the nicest building in rio, i don't know with the backdrop. yeah mainly because of the statue and also the nature it's very very pretty and unique yeah imagine living here, this is your garden so it turns out to come inside you actually needed a reservation online and it was fully booked today so there's no option and you also have to have proof of your double vaccination but we have that, but they said you can come in as long as you go to the restaurant so we had to do that instead. so this is how it looks on the inside, look how amazing that is with the pool
so it's just one big restaurant area now, i think when we came a few years ago the restaurant area was only at the back over there it wasn't like the whole area like it is now. so i ended up getting some fresh watermelon juice that was eleven reais, is yours orange juice? same price i think right? yeah. all of the juices so remember this part last time, a aquarium in a cave i can't see anything, check this one out here he's staring at me the catfish look carol he's staring at us .yeah that's a weird fish. it's a catfish and we're right next to the other famous attraction which is the botanical garden it's kind of similar to this but it has other specific areas where you can see specific plants and flowers and everything which is very cool. yeah it has a way bigger range of different species. but the outside is like this as well very beautiful. yeah so we'll write the price down
on the screen i guess, loads of different prices. it's different, we saw for people from brazil it's a price and from rio it's another price and foreigners another price, a lot of different prices. yeah so i'll write them down. so i remember this spot as well the gruta, the caves so down here there's loads of different entrances i remember and they were pitch black. yeah you can find some fairies around here. yeah let's go and
find some this way, look at that there things dangling down really cool, need a flashlight yeah? oh look at all this poop that must be bats. can you flash on the top? no whoa all right i'm not going in there without a flashlight. this seems like something they made for their kids to play in or something. i don't know, yeah i don't know it's just different but it's nice. but imagine having this place as a home it will be very cool. yeah. what? "ah fechou?" okay
so we just left parque lage and now we're going to another neighborhood and that's called botafogo and to go there we're going to get the bus, a local bus and that costs 4.05 and we're just waiting for the bus now. yeah so when we lived here that was probably the main way that we got around the city, by the buses this is the rio rush hour time, the bus is packed now. do you miss the old days? no. no
all right we made it in botafogo, nothing like a hot sweaty bus in rio. i think i've already gone through my second shirt of the day now. and this is praia de botafogo as you can see it's in the shade now, the sun's going down and this is always empty because it's not really good for swimming. so this is actually my first time stepping here in the sand really?! yes i've never walked here because you can't go in the water because it's very uh dirty yeah it's very dirty but the view is awesome. yeah so here you get yet another different view of the sugarloaf mountain, for me this is probably the best view actually in rio i think this is like the postcard view of the sugarloaf mountain right there in the distance so carol said she had never stepped foot on this beach but i have because i actually worked in botafogo, so just back there somewhere not that far it's only like two minutes, two minutes away so usually on my lunch breaks i would come down here, once again not to swim but i would walk around. it was a nice lunch break. so it's a real shame that this bay here is polluted
because i think this would probably be the best beach in rio maybe, definitely the best view with that view there. and the sand on this beach is really white, when the sun hits it's super white so we've now come to a shopping mall called botafogo praia shopping which is right on the beachfront, gonna try and find a spot to eat here. yeah check out this view here so you get the same postcard view that I was talking about before of botafogo and this is a food court we're still trying to work out where we're going to eat. yeah so we found our dinner spot and we also have that same amazing view here gonna be dark soon and we come to a japanese place called kotobuki right now we're literally the only people here it's completely empty and that's because it's 6 p.m only. yeah it's 6 p.m i think later it'll get busy. yeah i think so too. so our food has arrived i don't know the exact price but i'll write down the
total price for all this, i just got a water again and carol got a coke and then we both got some miso soup here, super delicious. here we got some spring rolls and i got these things called temaki which is like a cone, so this one is a tuna and that one over there is salmon. and carol also got some like fried rolls, is that salmon? yeah it is with cream cheese. looks delicious so now we're gonna get our final transport of the day which is the metro or subway and here in rio you can get the subway to the main spots or main tourist destinations especially in the south zone, and the tickets cost 5.08
all right and i think ours is only one station away. yeah just one station and the same price. but yeah a bit too far to walk in the dark. yeah yeah better to take the subway so i always like this metro station "cardeal arcoverde" because it's like you're in a cave, look at the the walls there. i think this is the only one that's like that isn't it? yeah it's the only one. yeah look at this, the cave metro station really cool though so hopefully you found this video useful and we did pretty much hit our target and that's for two people, but obviously the cost is going to differ depending on where you stay. You can stay around here even in copacabana for much cheaper, we're right on the beach right and we were eating in the touristy more expensive restaurants, but if you stay a few blocks in there's also hostels and stuff so you can get it way cheaper that way and there's also lots of cheaper places to eat so i think you could easily do it under 50 dollars, 40 to 50 dollars with no problem if you're on like a real budget, and that's for two people. or you can do it way more expensive
right, you can stay in fancier places or you can do the more expensive attractions like we said visit sugarloaf and jesus so it all depends on what you do really, but we did cover a lot of different costs in this video. and regarding the transport we covered the bus, metro and uber right that's like three main forms of transport but some of you might be thinking about renting in a car right to get around so that's something me and carol have done before and for us it costs 200 reais per day for an automatic but that's because we ordered the day before, so i think you can get cars as cheap as a hundred for a manual if you book in advance 100 to 150 so that'll be more or less the price for a rental car. and another popular way to get around that we really like is the bikes, so they have the rental bikes on the street with a company called bike itau where you can download their app online and put your bank info in there and then you can rent the bikes from any of the points, they have them all around here. and i know that's as low as 3 reais for every 15 minutes but they have many different plans i can write them down so if you're planning on renting it constantly some of the other plans are more beneficial. and it looks like we're approaching 200,000 subscribers, maybe by the time we have posted
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