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Going to the World Cup But Can’t Afford a Hotel? Try a Favela.
Brazil is known for many things: beaches, a nearly unstoppable futbol (soccer to Americans) team, a growing economy, the giant statue of Jesus Christ, and slums. The slums (also called shantytowns), known as 'favelas' in Portuguese, are just as one would expect a slum to be: a hodgepodge collection of tin and wood thrown together in some semblance of massive group housing. With the World Cup coming this summer to Brazil, however, and hotel prices around the country skyrocketing, they've suddenly become a way for World Cup tourists to avoid shelling out far too much money for a place to stay.
