Arrival In Rio

Was up really early this morning to go to the gym, then breakfast and ready for an 8am departure on our first trip of the day. I weighed myself this morning and the old adage that you can't out exercise a bad diet was proved very true. Though at least psychologically it made me feel a little better about all the food and drink I've got through this last two weeks on the boat.

The first thing that strikes you about Rio is the heat and the humidity. It was 24 degrees at 8am but with the humidity it felt like 34. This afternoon the temperature actually was 34 degrees so it was stifling with the humidity on top of that.

This morning's trip took us along some of Rio's famous beaches, Ipanema, Copacabana and Leblon. For 9:30am they were already quite busy, the beaches were long and deep and had so many volleyball nets up. They were being used for beach volleyball, a version of beach volleyball were you could use any part of your body other than you hands and arms and beach tennis which was more like badminton but with a paddle and a sort of tennis ball. There were also lots of joggers, cyclists and people out walking.

The queues were really long to get the cog tram up to the Christ the Redeemer statue and super busy at the top. The views though were worth all the effort.

The afternoon tour to Sugarloaf mountain was even worst for queues, even being fast tracked took quite a while getting on the two different cables cars to reach the top. However, the views from both places were absolutely stunning. I was just glad we didn't do it on our own

Traffic back to the boat was shocking, almost 90 mins to get back. So we just went straight to the bar and then dinner and then off to finish the rest of the packing.Okumaya devam et