So carnaval ended and everything went weirdly quiet in Rio. We had a bit of rain and chilled out. Did the usual drinking with everyone at the hostel at night, booze is cheeeap here! Thought we´d make ourselves useful in the day and went to the botanical gardens, was lovely, peaceful away from the busy streets of Rio with stunning flowers and that and we ate a nice strawberry icecream. Another trip was to the biggest favella in Rio one of 2000 in the city called Rocinha. We got motorbikes up to the top of the favella and worked our way down. The favella was nothing like we expected. It was made of narrow streets and there was obvious poverty with rubbish piled in corners and tiny rooms as houses built high on top of each
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