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[QUOTE=PussyRiot;2692681]So as long as two vaccines are taken (fully vaccinated), no longer need the Covid test to enter Brazil?

Can anyone who visited recently confirm this detail?[/QUOTE]All of that shit is about to be null and void.

[QUOTE=PussyRiot;2692681]So as long as two vaccines are taken (fully vaccinated), no longer need the Covid test to enter Brazil?

Can anyone who visited recently confirm this detail?[/QUOTE]You should contact official sources for inquires of this nature if you planning to travel.

Brazilian Embassy - [URL]http://miami.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/travel_to_brazil_.xml[/URL].

US State Department - [URL]https://br.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/[/URL].

US CDC [URL]https://www.cdc.gov[/URL].

[QUOTE=LegitNooby;2692706]Food is actually a pretty big selling point and you're not the first I've heard mention it. Is the food in Colombia actually bad?[/QUOTE]Colombian food is just mostly kind of bland and uninteresting. Brazilian cuisine is much, much better. Way!

[QUOTE=LegitNooby;2692706]Food is actually a pretty big selling point and you're not the first I've heard mention it. Is the food in Colombia actually bad?

I'm also quite a bit more interested in having a girl in the hotel room as opposed to a club, especially interested in overnight. Not that I won't try the clubs! I just might be a bit shy for it at first hahaha.[/QUOTE]Colombian food itself isn't very good, but you don't have to eat Colombian food in Colombia. There are good Peruvian, Mexican, Italian, Japanese, etc restaurants and generally quite inexpensive.

Back to what you'll spend, Rio and Medellin will be about the same other than the flight, which (from the USA) will be more for Rio. Sao Paulo can be more expensive, though it doesn't have to be (Clinicas can be fantastic w / o spending much). But most people want to check out the boates like Scandallo, Bomboa, etc. And that can get expensive, though they are spectacular.

[QUOTE=LegitNooby;2692706]Food is actually a pretty big selling point and you're not the first I've heard mention it. Is the food in Colombia actually bad?

I'm also quite a bit more interested in having a girl in the hotel room as opposed to a club, especially interested in overnight. Not that I won't try the clubs! I just might be a bit shy for it at first hahaha.[/QUOTE]It is uninteresting like The Cane said. There are more choices if you stay in the gentrified areas but I think it is significantly more expensive, relatively to local.

If you prefer to invite girl to your room. Medellin will be much cheaper and has more girls but it takes preparation.

Gents, in the midst of a jam and hoping this doesn't happen to any of you. Trying to get from Brazil to Colombia on a fun trip. Need a physical Yellow Fever Vaccine card. I had no clue. Airlines don't mention it at all when booking or in the countless emails they send after. Even the US Trav Gov site doesn't mention this. Anyways, if you book a joint country trip life me, plan accordingly. You need to have your Yellow Fever shot done 10 days before you would need to use that card to enter / exit another country with restrictions.

Taco.

Can someone tell me what is the difference between a Favela and a Comunidade?

I notice that Brasilians use both words when describing certian areas, but they are never really able to explain to me what the difference is.

[QUOTE=Bravo;2693631]Can someone tell me what is the difference between a Favela and a Comunidade?[/QUOTE]Same same. Comunidade is a nicer and more polite name. Those who live there normally use the word comunidade. Using the word favela is a bit rude if you speak with the locals who live in the comunidade.

[QUOTE=Bravo;2693631]Can someone tell me what is the difference between a Favela and a Comunidade?[/QUOTE]Favela is a generic, general, informal term. It is like in the USA saying hood or ghetto. Comunidade would usually be in reference to a specific neighborhood or community.

In the USA this would be like saying The Cabrini-Green Housing Development. You would not formally call it Cabrini-Green Ghetto or Cabrini-Green Hood or Cabrini-Green Favela. You would call it Comunidade Cabrini-Green or Cabrini-Green Community.

Senor PTG is your guy. He is living in a communidade now for 450 r a month on the advice of a girl he met off of twitter.

[QUOTE=Bravo;2693631]Can someone tell me what is the difference between a Favela and a Comunidade?

I notice that Brasilians use both words when describing certian areas, but they are never really able to explain to me what the difference is.[/QUOTE]

Are all comunidades actually favelas? I kind of took it as some type of community action group that is actively trying to improve life in a community.

[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2693799]He is living in a communidade now for 450 r a month on the advice of a girl he met off of twitter.[/QUOTE]That's not bad, but it sounds almost too cheap to be in one of the Zona Sul favelas (unless it's a very small place). Zona Norte?

[QUOTE=WyattEarp;2693969]Are all comunidades actually favelas? I kind of took it as some type of community action group that is actively trying to improve life in a community.[/QUOTE]From what I understand the difference is in the set-up. Favela is usually an isolated neighborhood on top of some hill or something and has houses very close together, if not on top of one another. Comunidade on the other hand is just another neighborhood of the city, has buildings next to one another, has many large apartment buildings. Kind of a hill (favela) vs. The flat surface (comunidade). The two contain mostly people of similar socioeconomic class, I. E. The poor. Other than that from what I understand it's the same thing.

Within 700 meters of metro jardim oceanico.

[QUOTE=Sperto;2693987]That's not bad, but it sounds almost too cheap to be in one of the Zona Sul favelas (unless it's a very small place). Zona Norte?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2694077]Within 700 meters of metro jardim oceanico.[/QUOTE]450 reais is a good deal. I guess it must be the minifavela São Tilon, not far from Ilha the Gigoia.