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Today we met up with with our Brazilian friend Francesco and his mate Cloudio (who will be playing host to us for the next few days) and also his cousin Henhrique. The everning started with a few beers at cloudio´s studio appartment before heading onto some bars. At around 12:30am Henhrique said he knew of a great club we could go to so we all jumped into the taxi and off we went, it was only when we started going along a single track road up a hill so steep that the car actually rolled back a few times that we realised we we heading deep into a flavela! My heart did start pumping when I looked over to the other Brazilians in the taxi and noticed that fearful look in their eyes! We ended up at the very top of the Flavela (named Vidigal) stood outside what looked like someones garage with some scary looking guys hanging around, we just tried to ignore them as we walked in and paid our R$30 entrance fee. As we walked through the ´garage´ it suddenly opened up into an open air club with the most amazing view (not what I had expected). We had a great night in the club having a laugh with no inccidents with the local´s (who had apparently stormed and taken over the Sheraton Hotel only 1 year earlier). At 5am we decided that it was to leave (this was early for the Brazilian´s) so we stepped outside only then realising that taxi´s don´t run from the top of flavela´s! A couple of guy´s on motorbike then turned up with ´taxi´ painted on their top´s, it was this or sleeping in the flavela so with hopped on, helmets on but nothing to attach them to our heads, and went for the ride of our lives back down to the city with Sal´s driver trying to have a race and Sal clinging to him for dear life, at the bottom I thought she might be in tear´s but she was laughing and said she wanted another go! So did I :-)
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