Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro City Guide 0.98

“Best for curious and independent-minded travellers.” - Wall Street Journal

Dial up your inner hedonist, with Lonely Planet’s Rio de Janeiro City Guide on your iPhone. Shuffling the night away at a tiny samba club, Carnaval craziness with the Cariocas, swinging so cool on the white sands of Ipanema – whatever you’re after in Cidade Maravilhosa (marvellous city), the world’s leading guidebook publisher can help you find. Our Brazilophile author has clocked up more than 50 days of exhausting research in the fleshpot of South America, leaving no stone unturned to ensure you won’t miss a thing.

So what’s the advantage of having our award-winning City Guides on your iPhone? Well, let’s say the sun’s setting on your afternoon of people-watching on Saõ beach, and you want to know where to kick back with a lazy caipirinha and some retro bossa nova? Or you’ve worked up a serious appetite scaling the face of Pão de Açúcar, and want to try an authentic feijoada? This smart little app can pin-point your location, and guide you straight to the door of the best venues in town. And, of course, all Lonely Planet’s famous content is there at your fingertips. Fantástico!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the worlds favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the worlds favourite guidebook has just arrived on the worlds favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MORE THAN 30 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City, with more guides coming soon

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