We barely scratched the surface of this beautiful and complex country during our 16 day visit. Here's what we got up to.

Rio de Janeiro is blessed with over 80 kilometres of sandy coastline and 15 in-bay and oceanic beaches. Two of them are so world famous that they've been immortalized in the public consciousness in music and films.

A combination of beautiful landscape, fresh food and positive vibes made Rio the first city to make it onto our "We could live here" list.

The Cristo Redentor statue that overlooks the city from the top of 700 metre tall Corcovado Mountain, is as synonymous with Rio de Janeiro as Gisele, Copacabana and Carnivale.

After a rather chaotic arrival in Rio, where we missed our bus stop and had to backtrack on another local bus (damn that Portuguese!), we finally made it to our first Air BnB rental of the trip - a private