Yesterday morning we took a drive through part of the city and up through a hillside town, eventually leaving us at a trail head that lead us through bamboo trees and some kind of palm tree with giant black spikes. Of course Tom got punctured. The hike seemed way too short for the amazing view that awaited at the top. Both left and right, we could see miles down the beach and thousands of buildings and skyscrapers. Right in front of us was another mountain with a giant rock that had a face with quite a large forhead. We could even see SESC school way off to the right. After we took a couple group photos, the boys attempted to make a TCS sign in front of the view, and randomly encountering a stray dog, we took a trek down to watch some hang gliders take off. The hang gliders took off above us and soared over the city, eventually landing on the beach.
Later in the afternoon we drove a ways across Rio and took two trams to see the incredible view from Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açùcar). We could see far more than we did from the top of our little hike, for we say the entire bay, harboring a bunch of sail boats. There was not a cloud in the sky that day and we could clearly see the Redemption Christ figure off in the distance. Three of four little brown and white striped monkeys ran around under tables and benches, in search of food from the tourists. They were about the size of kittens, but wayyy cuter. Tom acttracted a huge crowd
when two of them climed up on his leg to eat his cheesy bread, but soon enough some lady told him that feeding the monkeys was prohibited. Hannes led us on an expedition through a secret path in a bamboo thicket, but we turned around after a minuite or two because we were going nowhere. We caught a glimpse of a glorious dark red sunset right before we took the trams down.
Morgan being magestic on our hike
Redemption Christ
Tom feeding the monkeys (Hannes already posted one similar to this)
Looking down on the first tram to Sugar Loaf
The sunset from Sugar Loaf
---Reta
Later in the afternoon we drove a ways across Rio and took two trams to see the incredible view from Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açùcar). We could see far more than we did from the top of our little hike, for we say the entire bay, harboring a bunch of sail boats. There was not a cloud in the sky that day and we could clearly see the Redemption Christ figure off in the distance. Three of four little brown and white striped monkeys ran around under tables and benches, in search of food from the tourists. They were about the size of kittens, but wayyy cuter. Tom acttracted a huge crowd
when two of them climed up on his leg to eat his cheesy bread, but soon enough some lady told him that feeding the monkeys was prohibited. Hannes led us on an expedition through a secret path in a bamboo thicket, but we turned around after a minuite or two because we were going nowhere. We caught a glimpse of a glorious dark red sunset right before we took the trams down.
Morgan being magestic on our hike Redemption Christ Tom feeding the monkeys (Hannes already posted one similar to this) Looking down on the first tram to Sugar Loaf The sunset from Sugar Loaf---Reta