Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
So when we decided to travel south America, the rio carnival was one of the deciding factors! So in December we had tried to look online and book accommodation with nothing available even then. So we went onto Craigslist and found a guy who had an apartment in Copacobana beach who was looking to make extra dosh over the rio carnival and rent out his spare room, so we took it!! We arrived in the daytime and I wondered whether we were walking into an axe murderers ...