Hello! Fernando and I just got back from a week in the south, visiting Santos and Rio de Janeiro. Rio was so pretty and much more then I expected. We stayed in a room in Linda´s house a block away from Copacobana beach. Linda is a woman who used to live in Manaus. We got her phone number last minute, from a friend of a friend and ended up sleeping in her bed while she slept on the couch. We met up with some friends that were in Rio for Carneval, and had a lot of fun. We all went to visit the famous Cristo statue, looking over all of Rio. Also, took the air taxis up to Sugarloaf mountain. It was super hot in Rio! We visited the Botanical Garden......lush, green and so pretty.
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