Monday, 25 June 2007
Peles love children....
Pica Da Papagaoi
Freshwater pool at sunrise on Ilha Grande
Kids in Racinho Favela
Racinho Favela and Rio
Roof of Sao Sebastao Cathedral
Sunset in Rio
We hit Rio last Wednesdat week now and pretty much slept it up the first day due to our jet lagged pasty bodies. We strolled the Copacabana that evening which was petty nice but a littlew rough really, and by the reports from other people, a lot rougher than we encountered.
We spent day two just realxing on the beach at Ipanema, played some footie, swam (the wavesd are weird, just one that breaks right on the shore, about a 3 foot wave breaking in about 3 inches of water...). Managed to get to some fotball that night at the Maracana, Botofogo and Vasco da Gama, Romario was playing but he should be made into sausages at this stage, he was rubbish. Bota walked it 4-0 with our man Leandro (gurantee he´ll be in Europe soon) scoring a ridiculous volley from about 35 yards. The dodgy brazilian goalkeepers lived up to their rep as....eh...being dodgy.BOTA TILL DIE!
Went to the ´Christo redeemer´ statue the next day and took the funicular ride up to the sugarloaf mountain which was actually more imporessive than the view from the statue.
We went on a bit of a walking tour of our own the next day, saw a pretty crazy cathedral(Sao Sebastiao) and went on the tram upto Santa Therasa, the kind of arty bohemian area which was....arty and bohemian and like...well....so are we loike. It was really nice up there, small shops and galleries, mucho impressive.
Headed off to Ilha Grande last Monday week and it really is a paradise island, no cars, one small village and thats about it. Got a sweet room in the hostel with some hammocks overlooking the bay and basically chilled out for a few days, walked for about two hours to Lopes Mendes beach which was beautiful, rented some body boards and messed about, caught a boat back to the village then....noice.
Freshwater pool at sunrise on Ilha Grande
Kids in Racinho Favela
Racinho Favela and Rio
Roof of Sao Sebastao Cathedral
Sunset in Rio
I like brazil a lot, id even say I dont want to leave. Its bloody great and thats a fact.
We hit Rio last Wednesdat week now and pretty much slept it up the first day due to our jet lagged pasty bodies. We strolled the Copacabana that evening which was petty nice but a littlew rough really, and by the reports from other people, a lot rougher than we encountered.
We spent day two just realxing on the beach at Ipanema, played some footie, swam (the wavesd are weird, just one that breaks right on the shore, about a 3 foot wave breaking in about 3 inches of water...). Managed to get to some fotball that night at the Maracana, Botofogo and Vasco da Gama, Romario was playing but he should be made into sausages at this stage, he was rubbish. Bota walked it 4-0 with our man Leandro (gurantee he´ll be in Europe soon) scoring a ridiculous volley from about 35 yards. The dodgy brazilian goalkeepers lived up to their rep as....eh...being dodgy.BOTA TILL DIE!
Went to the ´Christo redeemer´ statue the next day and took the funicular ride up to the sugarloaf mountain which was actually more imporessive than the view from the statue.
We went on a bit of a walking tour of our own the next day, saw a pretty crazy cathedral(Sao Sebastiao) and went on the tram upto Santa Therasa, the kind of arty bohemian area which was....arty and bohemian and like...well....so are we loike. It was really nice up there, small shops and galleries, mucho impressive.
We took a favela tour the next day, our last in Rio. We didnt really know whether to go on it or not as it seemed a bit immorral to go just to ´look at the poor people´ ,everyone we had met that had been on were arses aswell but we said we´d do it. Back of a motorbike up to the top of it, plenty shot guns being wielded about the place....as you do...so it was an experience anyways, all very controlled but there is no other way of seeing these places really unless you want to get murdered!Not particulary thanks very much.
Headed off to Ilha Grande last Monday week and it really is a paradise island, no cars, one small village and thats about it. Got a sweet room in the hostel with some hammocks overlooking the bay and basically chilled out for a few days, walked for about two hours to Lopes Mendes beach which was beautiful, rented some body boards and messed about, caught a boat back to the village then....noice.
Went on a major trek on our last day there, climbed to Pica da Papagaoi (The Parrots Peak), long, hot day but well worth it. Saw some hummingbirds, crazy looking spiders and generally discovered our fitness level is about the same as Romarios.
At the moment were in Florionopalis, or Barra Da Lagoa to be exact. Came down here with 3 Canadian guys we met at lha grande and rented an apartment for 20real a night (about 7 euro). Celebrated one od their birthdays on Saturday night, luckily wandered into this bar in the town that had some big indie thing on so saw some god bands and generally mucked about on which we´ll forget the details. Went to the crazy dunes here today and went sandboarding so wrecked and have sand in every oriface imaginable, Shanes convinced his cheeks are now pointing the wrong way...not his face cheeks. Ciao! (off to Uruguay soon!)
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