This was the firt stay of our trip and boy was it weird!!! Stayed in a hotel for the first night and then moved to a hostel called Stone of the Beach which was based 2blocks from Copacabana. Was a very nice hostel, they organised a tour for us that basically took us all around the city. We went to see Cristo Redentor, The Favelas (Really poor part of the city where there are shantys, but supposedly the guide said that it is probably the safest par6t of Rio - Weird), Maracana Stadium where all famous brazilians played like Pele etc. We then decided to take a trip downtown along the beach to Ipanema where i bumped into the fergusons from back home, (Really weird cos i did not have a clue that they were gonna ... read more