Originally Posted by MattO

I was down in Rio about a month ago for a couple weeks and it was great. No problems at all, and I'm as white as they come. Rode the busses around town, drank beer at the kiosks on the beach at night, partied downtown, went to concerts. No one stole my shit or harassed me.
I didn't go wandering around in the favelas by myself though. That'd be dumb.