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From Buzios we had to get a bus back to Rio (long!) and then another bus out of Rio to Petropolis, a mountain town about an hour away. The weather hadn´t looked promising so we had our fingers crossed that it would improve. We arrived in Petropolis in the evening only to find that there were no cheap hostels in the centre (and it was chucking it down to make matters worse!) so we had to head out of the centre to a hostel about 5km away. Had an early night as there wasn´t much to do there, then up early(ish) next day and caught a bus back into the centre. We spent the day walking around centro, saw the main sights, had a nice tea/coffee, then caught bus onto our next stop Teresopolis.
Teresopolis was another mountain town an hour on from Petropolis. We again arrived in the evening and found a lovely hostel right at the top of a hill overlooking the city - the view was amazing! The next day we caught a bus to Parque Nacional da Serra dos Orgaos, where we did a short trail through the forest which took us to another stunning panoramic view of Teresopolis - we could have sat there for ages, and the weather was lovely too, but as always we were on a time restraint so after taking some nice pics and watching Lee climb a tree that overhung the drop below (!!!) we headed back to town to catch another bus back to Rio... again!!!
Once in Rio, our next bus from there to Paraty did not leave until 9pm (and we had arrived at 4ish), and as we didn´t fancy sitting around in the bus station for that long we decided that as the weather had been quite nice, we would head to Sugar Loaf mountain and go up it in the cable car. It was quite expensive for what it was, but the views were amazing and it was nice to see Rio lit up at night, as when we had done Christ Redeemer it had been during the day. We then walked along Copacabana and grabbed dinner (a Maccy D´s for Lee, Jess and Elle and lasagna for ´ever the health freak´Steve!), then returned to the bus station ready to catch our next bus to Paraty
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