We slept in rather later than we wanted to today so it was gone midday before we finally caught the metro into the centre of Rio. Once we arrived and got our bearings we started our tour by looking at park dedicated to Ghandi which contained a very impressive looking fountain, which was turned off. We then took a stroll up one of the main streets in Rio, Avenue Rio Branco, which must be about 50m wide and is lined with trees, making it quite a pretty place to walk. We soon arrived at a very ornate building decorated in white and gold and topped by a golden eagle, this is the municipal theatre and is one of several amazing buildings in this part of the city, but since it's the only one named on the map I can't tell you what the others are. We then turned off Rio Branco and went to look at the old viaduct which now carries a small train from the centre of town to Santa Teresa, which is apparently the Bohemian district of the city. The viaduct has been built in a sort of mock Roman style and white washed, this means that it stands out from the city around it, as much for the lack of graffiti on it as the way it's built. Close to the viaduct is a very strange cone shaped building which we later found out is Rio's cathedral although it looks like some sort of industrial chimney covered in soot, but once again it's so unlike everything around it that you can't help but like it. We had intended to take the little train across the viaduct to Santa Teresa today but when we finally found the station, there are no signs to anything here, we discovered that it was closed, although we have no idea why since there is no explanation available, just a deserted station. Slightly annoyed by this we decided to walk the short distance to where the only thing we really wanted to see in that area was, a flight of steps which a Chilean artist has been decorating with tiles from all over the world, he started the project over 15 years ago now and I think it's pretty much finished, he now just spends all his time maintaining his work. None the less, it's an amazing sight both the colourful vision of the flight of stairs in it's entirety, and also to look closer at all the souvenir tiles which he has picked up from various places around the world. Halfway up there is a small shop to look round where you can buy various tile related memorabilia, which we successfully managed to resist. Of course since this is the bohemian area, the graffiti steps up a notch with the surrounding street completely covered in random scrawling, in fact you can't even see where the shops are because there signs are so covered in spray paint. We finished our tour of central Rio by walking down to park Flamengo, where you can get a good view of sugar loaf mountain, it's also a pretty place to sit and look out across the bay where you can see that sugar loaf in fact has a twin, this almost identical mountain is of course not famous because it's the other side and therefore not in Rio!! We sat for a little while relaxing and watching the planes take off from the airport opposite. Since we wanted to get back before dark as it had felt distinctly unsafe walking the evening before, we soon had to leave and we just had time to look at the table shaped war memorial which we had been sitting almost next to before catching the metro back to Maria de Graca (our stop). We went to a nearby shop where we bought some things for dinner and went back for another evening of Caparinhas (we had bought quite a large bottle!!)