Blais really came through for us for the return. We were leaving really early and the agreed cab stood us up, but he was up in the morning with us and drove us to a cab.

The place is very picturesque and you can feel isolated from the hustle and bustle of Rio. The down-side, ofcourse is that it's really hard to get to. We were there during the carneval so the buses change route and stops in Santa Teresa and the taxis don't want to take you. You should really get a number of motorcycle taxi. We suppose it's not that crazy when it's not the carneval.