
Since we hadn’t had a late night we decided Day 5 was the time to see sunrise at Copacabana. Alarm set for 5am and we were out for a run along Copacabana. The paths through the city are so good for runners and bikes so we headed to the North East end of the beach…

We were very very excited for today!! We had booked a Helicopter Ride over Rio which took us round the main sights for 30mins. We took off at 10am, the skies were so blue and the views were so clear, we couldn’t have been luckier. Flying over Christ the Redeemer has to be one of…

Day 3 was our busiest day yet, in fact I’m not sure we could have done anymore if we tried. Cue long blog post, sorry in advance! We started by heading over to the foot of the Vidigal Favela where we were meeting a local tour guide (who lives in the Favela) called Felipe. We…

We were up at the crack of dawn to get a head start for the tram to Christ the Redeemer – everyone else also seemed to have the same idea so unfortunately we still had to wait in a very long queue to get to the top haha Once at the top it was pretty…