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Sorry i´ve been lame with the blog-have struggled to find a computer. They are either free so you can only get 10 minutes or REALLY expensive!
We stayed in Bonito for a few days after we had left the Pantanal but we didn´t get a chance to do any of the ´touristy´things because i was struggling with headaches!!! Too much sun in the Pantanal me thinks! So from Bonito we headed back to Campo Grande to catch a bus to Rio. We thought the bus would take around 18 hours-it took 24! There was a crazy elderly lady who kept us entertained if not a feeling bit akward by trying to talk to us in Portugese and didn´t seem to understand the word ´íngles´. We learnt to smile and nod and get the odd funny look when we answered her questions with this gesture!
We arrived at our hostel in Rio just before lunch. The guy spoke really good English and the hostel was lovely, down a really pretty street in a part of Rio called Ipanema. We did a tour later on in the afternoon with a few others from the hostel to Crist Redentor (Christ the Redeemer). The tour was organised by the hostel and we were taken straight to Corcovado by taxi with a crazy crazy guide. Half way up the mountain he stopped to show us some of his friends. They were monkies, really cute little ones and we fed them bananas which was fun! When we reached the top of the mountain we had to walk a little way to reach the statue. When we got there the statue was huge and the views over Rio were awsome. Our guide laid down on the floor in the middle of the platform to take photos for us which occured a few dodgy looks, by the time we left, everybody was doing it! ´Rapido bebes´ was the call that we were leaving the statue and heading else where! On the way back down the mountain the guide stopped to show us the Favelas in the distance; there were hundreds of three story houses all cramped together, not looking very appealing. The guide told us that there are normally three families living in one house, they don´t have schools, hospitals or police. It sounded pretty bad but unfortunately it is a reality in Rio. After the favelas we headed downtown to the catedral which, from the outside looked a bit dull and not at all like a catedral should but the inside was amazing! We then went on to see some famous stairs made up of tiles from all over the world. It was nice to see that there were English tiles on there! (The artist relied on travellers sending him tiles from their home countries).
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