Still a little groggy this morning from last night's festivities at Platforma 1. We had a tourist visit to the Christ Statue, what fantastic views of the whole city and a fun little tram ride up to the top. Despite the many flying ants at the top of the mountain, the statue and views were awe inspiring!
After descending from the mountain on the same tram we were dropped off at Impanema beach for our first real R&R. A group of us went for a quick lunch at Bob's Burger Bragazio (Bleah!) and then hit the beach right away. What a beautiful beach full of beautiful people who are always running, jumping and being generaly athletic in the hot. hot sun...
A few of the boys played beach volleyball for a while and felt very much like the Icelandic Olympic team, no tans and very little volleyball talent! We got pretty warm pretty quickly and decided to direct our remaining energy to saying "No Obrigado" to the various vendors, who were a lot less persistent than the ones on Impanema. We met "Scott" from Winnipeg who has been living in Rio, teaching English and PhysEd, and operating a small eco-tourism operation. He chatted with us for about twenty minutes and gave us a good primer on Rio, the crime and what was real vs. Inflammatory stories. He was a very nice guy and I really enjoyed meeting him. We had dinner at Top Beer and packed for our departure to Santiago.
Thoughts:
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Everyone of all ages in Rio are fitness crazy!
A little kid tried to get into Scott E's backpack on the walk back and was dissuaded by the linebacker brothers!
The walk back from Ipanema to Copacabana was a real highlight, even though it was way longer than the promised 40 minutes.
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