With so many destinations in the WHL Group’s ever-expanding network, we have an incredible wealth of local travel information at our fingertips. Through the Inside Word, our local partners – all travel experts – share their top tips on what to do, what to eat, where to party and where to shop in their necks of the woods. Here we dish up some superb local hints from Luiz Renato, the whl.travel local connection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro. We love to think we’re on intimate terms with it, calling it just Rio. But for such a small word, it packs a mighty punch, an explosion of sound, light and flavour. Rio is Carnival and samba; it’s the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, one of the New Seven Wonders of the…