A worker serves coffee to a guest at Pousada Favelinha (Little favela) hostel kitchen in Pereira da Silva favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Stunning views of iconic Sugarloaf Mountain, a sun-drenched patio nestled in the hills of Atlantic rainforest and rooms costing a fraction of nearby hotels.
The Favelinha hostel, like others in several of Rio's more than 1,000 shantytowns, offers more than just cheap housing for the more adventurous among the estimated 500,000 foreign tourists expected to arrive for the Olympics in August.
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