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There is so much to see, that there is always the danger of having organized tours bring you to see fourteen things a day, of which you remember none. There were also the predictable tourist groups that had their noses buried in their cell phones, and probably never caught a real glimpse of what they were actually seeing. Plus, I WAS there for work. My outfit did not suddenly decide to pay for me to run down to Brazil for a week on a whim. I had to pay for my wife's air fare from Düsseldorf to Rio and back, of course, but the rest was on the company dime.

Thanks for the supplementary info, by the way! I never would have had the time to research that.