What are these places like, prices, people, weather etc?

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lipeba86

When it comes to prices, you can eat at good restaurants for about 20-30 reais. I don't know about hotel ratings. In general it's cheap if you come from somewhere with strong currency like dollars, euros, pounds .
People in Rio (cariocas) are more friendly and easy going then paulistanos (SÃ£o Paulo city residents). Rio is great for its beauty, warm weather, wonderful beaches, and beautiful people.
SÃ£o Paulo is home to business, cultural life, diverse food and people (chinese, bolivian, peruvian, portuguese, spanish, italian, lebanese). It's quite polluted and the traffic sucks. The museums are great as well as Downtown architecture, the Ibirapuera Park and shopping malls.
Rio is so famous that i'm not going to mention its attractions.
If you can stay longer, take a look at Downtown with interesting mixed architecture, Theatre, National Museum. Santa Teresa bohemia and its tram and if you're into shopping malls go to Barra da Tijuca, West Side.
Be aware of pickpockets all the time while around here.
Enjoy Carnival if possible (Feb-March depends on the year)
As to the weather, Rio is warm and mostly sunny. Summer can be as hot as 40ÂºC (104F). Sao Paulo weather is made up of daily thunderstorms from November till March. They're short lived and occur moslty in the late afternoon so they don't intervene on your plans. It can be quite cold in winter ( 10C ) and rarely exceeds 31C (summer) .

the answer is within you

the question you are asking is like asking what Europe is like (kinda hard to give a good snapshot of that!) i can tell you that generally the southern part of the continent (Argentina,Chile, southern Brazil) is much more developed than the other countries. I really thought Bolivia was cool.

It would require a small book to answer your questions as you have stated them. The best adivce is to get the best books on the countries regarding travel along with considerable study on the internet on sites like this and others.
I got a suggestion from one of the other portions of this web site that referred me to www.virtualtourist.com and I thought it was great. I'm going to some of the same places you mentioned and I found the information especially useful. Try it out and I'm sure you will agree.

KYGrace

These are a lot of question to answer! I suggest that you consult with a travel agent or go to the internet sites specifically for each country and city and look up the current information you need. No one can help you with the price other than US Dollars or English Pounds or Euros because we don't know where you're from!!

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