Hello my friends!

After receive so many invitation to hang out on Couchsurfing - sometimes asking me for a couch (not yet) or only some tips about restaurants, bars, nightclubs - I decided to create a place to write and maybe I can help more people.

I created this blog to help people to hang out in Rio and having fun as a local. Of course I will also write about tourist places like Christ the Redeemer or Sugar loaf, because even those places has different point of view. But I want to share places that I usually go and Rio by Local will be a motivation to go to others places also.

Another thing that is important is "how to get there?". During my experience hanging out with Gringos at Couchsurfing I realize that they are not interested to use taxi as I thought. For me, a brazilian girl, the cost of taxi in Rio are cheap. Mostly when you are with a group of four people. But I see that for Gringos can be expensive, because taxi drivers can be very rascal and also Gringos don't have a lot of money. Because of that I will always try to help to find the places using bus, metro, walking. But google also can help with that, because things here are alway changing.

My english is not so good, so please, help me with that! And the mostly important reason about "Rio by Local": I'm doing that because I love this place so much and we should share things we love, right?

See you!