more rio

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Some photos of my first few days here - it takes a long time to upload so theres not loads yet, but il keep uploading them as i get chance.

The photos with blue sky are from my 1st day the rest with grey sky are every day since.

A favela is a shanty town where residents basically find a bit of land and build on it. The land is theres after 3 years or so. There are now 600 favelas in rio housing around 2m people. We went to the biggest and oldest. Lots of people with guns and walkie talkies and its a police free zone, other than thats its very safe!

Adios

tom

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Photos

mehala and child
whilst in the favela we went to a day care centre - one of the kids became attached to hala

rios biggest favela
the biggest favela in rio housing 200,000 people - totaly controled by drug gangs

view of a colonial building
view from the window where mehalah stayed with her family