Sugarloaf....

Trying to keep up with the updates, as we don´t have internet in the apartment it´s tough to write in the internet cafes. On Tues we took about an hour walk to the base of Sugarloaf mountain which we can see from our apartment window. We heard you can hike all the way up but the second part requires climbing gear and is just a bit out of our leauge. The first half is supposedly the easier half so we did that. It was nice steep hike that took about 30 minutes, pretty intense at times but we got through it. From there we paid our 22 realis to get to the top of sugarloaf by tram. Beautiful views of Copacabana, Ipanemea, Botafoga, and Flamengo. Later that night the local Couchsurfing group in rio was meeting up to listen to some samba music and then fooja in Lapa. The samba was pretty amazing and the fooja was not really my cup of tea, it started to pour half way through the night so we waited it out and headed back by bus. The public transport here in rio is amazing, as you can easily catch a bus at hour in the morning.