Nice early morning; up at 7.30 and straight out for 8am to
grab the bus to the Crocovado mountain to take Kate up to Cristo Redeemer. Another absolutely blazing hot day, sun high
in the sky, sweat dripping from everywhere...
The views were obviously the same as last time; however the
sun was on the other side of the mountain due to the time of day, so a managed
to get a different perspective of the statue.
The ride down from the top inside the cog train was very entertaining
this time round as there was now a samba band squeezed into the front carriage
who were blasting some nice samba and jazz songs to make the decent a lot more
enjoyable.
Back to the hostel for a quick change and a re-charge;
stopped off to get some bread, cheese, ham and the most amazing Watermelon
ever!! After this we spent a
considerable amount of time thinking about what to do for the afternoon and
decided on getting a bus to the next beach along – Ipanema – and to have a walk
along the beach and to hire some bicycles to ride around the Lagoon which is
situated between the beach and the mountains.
The lagoon is pretty huge!! It’s 7.2km long and took about an hour for
us amateurs to ride around; with about 3 stops along the way for
refreshments... Probably not the best
day to do this as the temperature was about 33°C
at 5pm. However; all in all a great
day!! A lot of culture and exercise covering.
On the night we went for dinner with a couple of nice guys
from the hostel and a girl who was quite possibly one of the most irritating people...
Really uninteresting, not the best to look at... and pretty much anything that
did come out of her mouth was pretty damn odd... So, most of the conversations were without
her – which suited me and Kate down to the ground. On the other side, the other two were
interesting and good guys; 1 being an American pilot and the other guy from
North England and worked as an aerospace engineer... didn’t quite get the same
enthusiasm back when I told him what I used to work as.
Nice early night ready for a packed day full of fun and
culture the next day; and our last day in Rio!!!
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