Rio skyline
Originally uploaded by mark&june
Hello again! As you can tell from the photo above the sunny weather has finally arrived, and we've had a lovely day visiting the Sugar Loaf Mountain. The mountain is actually a large rock on the coast of Rio reached by cable car, and is a beautiful spot with stunningly gorgeous views over the city and bay. To my disappointment though it turns out that it isn't actually made of sugar.
Yesterday's trip to the favelas was good and showed us another side of Rio life, although after having been to India and China the conditions here didn't seem that bad comparatively. Having said that though we didn't go on one of the tours that includes a visit to machine-gun-toting drug dealers!
All being well we're heading up to the Christ the Redeemer statue tomorrow, and in the evening are going to see a football match between local side Flamengo and a Mexican team in the South American equivalent of the Champions League. The weather is still supposed to be good until Thursday, so our dream of actually lying on a beach may still come to fruition....
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