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Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon, and Lagoa
Sunday, March 24, was my first day in actually taking in some sites. I spent the day walking through the beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. Unfortunately, the photos do not show how beautiful the beaches are as it was mostly a cloudy day. I later went to Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in which I was supposed to …
Beautiful Buzios
... level and we loved every minute spent there. Most of the conversation on our last beach day in Buzios was around how we could extend our stay there. Unfortunately we had made arrangements for accommodation back in Rio so staying longer would have been difficult. We will be returning to Brazil soon and Buzios will be on that itinerary without a doubt. We ended our stay off with an amazing dinner and packed our suitcase for our trip back to Rio. Rio, here we come again ...
First entry from Brazil
... that went off around 6:30am had already prevented any hopes I had of sleeping in late. As we were walking along the boardwalk towards the beach, there were people selling boat tours that stopped at different beaches along the coast, and being the superstitious people we are, took it as a good sign that the guy that came up to us had a t-shirt with the name Antonio smack dab in the middle. "Our" boat, . The boat ride included ...
Beaches!
... but after that, no signs of violence (except on the news reports about Sao Paulo). Perfect weather but the beaches were empty because it was, after all, winter (even if it was 30 degrees celsius). Caipirinhas, caipiroskas, inability to change out of a top so bought it and wore it out of the shop... quite a tough one to explain with no ...
Made It Here
... until it turned into a gay party. There were transvestites everywhere, it was pretty amusing, but we decided to come back to the hostel and get cleaned up and go downtown where we heard there were going to be some great street parties near the Somdrodome. This was around midnight. I was already fairly primed when we went downtown. There was probably 12 of us or so (3 cabs packed full of people). We ...