Breakfast in the favela hotel.

Samba, sweat and sexy dancers: the end of February is the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro back thousands attract tourists. blogs TV reported from the city of contrasts - from pickpockets, the first favela hotel and survival on the beach.

 

Bruno is an institution at the Copacabana. Every day, attracts the 54-year-old with more than 70 kilograms of heavy beverage containers on the beach and is already the second generation of bathers with cold Matetee and lemonade.

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Metropolis Rio (1): Teeverkäufer and sand wonders
Metropolis Rio (2): Fight crime at the beach
Metropolis Rio (3): Survival in the favelas

Bruno is a survival artist: In Rio de Janeiro, in a city with tremendous poverty, he has his livelihood found. Similarly, the Sandskulpteur at the Promenade, which for its provocative mermaids a few euros a day to be donated.

The Brazilian Twelve million Metropolis is a city of contrasts. Every year, attracts the colorful, noisy carnival locals and tourists in their spell. At the same time raging in the favelas, the poor neighborhoods on the slopes of the city, a war between police and drug lords.

Only the beginning of February died in a five-raid ten people in the ball hail, two of them still minors. Alone in this favela came in the last one and a half years, 32 people in police operations were killed.

The Englishman Bob Nadkarni has dared, in the favela Tavaros Bastos a first hotel to open. From the breakfast table of "The Maze" will open the view of Rio's distinctive feature, the Sugarloaf, the eight rooms have a refrigerator and fan. Contrary to all expectations is Nadkarnis guests so far nothing happened.

blogs TV reports about people and their fates in Rio de Janeiro: from survival Artist Bruno and the hotelier Bob Nadkarni and the petty crime, before the tourists at the Copacabana in eight have to take.