Travel Insurance and Rio de Janeiro

We were in Rio in January 2009, specifically, Copacabana. We stayed for about 5 days mostly in the Copa and Ipanema area, with the usual trips thrown in to Christo, football staduim etc. At no time did we feel unsafe, we also noticed that on the beach the locals happily went into the water leaving unattended on the beach: assorted bags, mobile phones, Ipods and so on. We have no doubt that there are dangerous areas of Rio, as there are of any city this size, however we can perhaps understand the reaction of the Rio police is the instance of the British Backpackers alleged insurance scam.

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