Rio De Janeiro

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"At the Copa, Copacabana, there´s music and dancing...... this is the wrong song for this location" (and it must be sang in tune). It took us 3 days to get that damm song out of our heads!!

Arrived in Rio after a 6 hour, very comfortable bus journey from San Paulo, cost e25 and it was more comfortable than business class and defo no comparison to Ryanair.

We were booked into the Stone of a Beach Hostel (and that when it all kicked off), hostel is two blocks from the Copacabana beach.
Apparently Ipanema beach is the place where the beautiful people are but we found everything expensive and the beach was overcrowed, nothing worse than a thong (stuck in a fat ass) in the face when trying to sunbathe!! Seriously that was it, nothing to do with the good looking people there.
We based ourselves in Cópacabana cause we could play hurling on the beach with the Kerry lads we met in the hostel, great way to attract attenion from the locals.

Now what could be more important then changing a milk bottle coloured body to a beautiful sun kissed colour, I tell you thats easy, the night life, in Rio style. Lapa is where its at, street parties and nightclubs all over the place, dont even need to go into a club, possibly more fun on the street but be cautious.

To clear our consious about being such beach bums and alcoholics, we thought we should go see some sights. We got our hostel possie together and got a tour of Christ the Redeemer (save me jebus), the Maracana football stadium, the Sambódromo and some church, pictures are attached. We also went to Sugar Loaf at sunset which is well worth a visit and Neylon the adventurer went hangliding for 15 mins!!
But of course being in Brazil we had to go see a football match between Flamengo and International , Flamengo won 2-1, great atomshpere , lots of flares, defo go to see one if you can.

All is all we spent 7 nights, instead of the original 4 planned, Definitely Rio is a must.

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Photos

Copacabana Beach
Opposite end of the beach

Sugar Loaf
Sugar loaf at sunset from the first cable car stop

Sugar Loaf
View from Sugar Loaf down on Rio

Sugar Loaf
3 of us at the first stop at sunset

Sugar Loaf
Sunset sky from Sugar Loaf

The 2 of us
We promise this is not a fake photo

View of Copacabana
Taken from the top of Sugar Loaf

Stone of the beach Hostel
Front of the hostel we stayed in for the week

All the gang from Rio
Out for dinner in our first per kilo restaurant

Christ the Redeemer
Guess which one is Claire?

Escalator to Heaven
Vip entry to heaven

Kevin the Redeemer
You must be this tall to get into heaven

Football Stadium
Maracana Stadium the day before the game, from the sideline

Pep talk
Pep talk in the dressing room before the game

The Sambodromo
This is where Carnaval is judged every year, you can rent out a viewing gallery for $10,000 for 30 people for the 4 days with food and booze included

Ronaldo Feet
He does have small feet!!

Mike the Redeemer
Mike was enlightened from his trip to see jebus!!

Comments

[eduardo]

catchy chorus
oh, I also hate this brazilian music... I imagine how much did you suffer with this music in Bahia.

[anonymous]

all I want to hear is you are having a crap time!!!

[Heather Ann]

nice piggy....XXXX Heather Ann

[Rob Devery]

Having a ball.
Corey, sure looks like your having a ball. Spare a thought for us poor souls back in little old Limerick. It resembles a scene from Angela's Ashes today. Enjoy the rest of your trip!!

[Aoife Moloney]

jealous.........
as hell

[Sabina]

Great Photos
great photos, keep us updated, it is through your adventure the rest of can live :) or at least dream

[thelma]

where is the piggy? looks amazing!