Bom Dia, We have spent the last few days in Rio visting Sugar Loaf mountain, the Christ and going out to the Samba towns. Last night (1st December) we went with some friends we met to see the christmas tree that they light up every year in Rio, it floats around on the lake and last night there was a big party in celebration of the lights being switched on, and its also the start of summer here. We have decided to change our planned route...we were going to a p...

hello everyone! thanks for the messages you left, yesterday we walked around Ipanema. There were lots of nice shops and we had some freshly sqeezed fruit juice- mango and pinapple!we have settled in well and today we are going to go and visit the lake (lagoa) and hire some pedalos after that we plan to go to the Botanic Gardens (jardin botanica) to see all of the tropical plants. we have already seen some lime trees from the balcony of our hostel!tomorrow we are...