[ZX5chica]

The thing there, as with travelling anywhere, is that you have to be smart about it. If you don't flash your money, or your expensive objects around, or carry your camera around your neck, you're fine. I kept a decent sized amount of cash on me, in case I was robbed, but nothing happened.
The locals new that we were gringos, but they left us alone. To be honest, I felt safer walking alone in Rio than I have ever felt in some neighbourhoods in Ottawa.