We spent our last few days in Rio seeing more of the sights and lazing on the beach. I had a great birthday (thanks for all the messages)! We went up to Corcovoda(Christ the Redeemer) in a crazy taxi ride - don?t they know what side of the road they?re supposed to drive on?! The views over Rio were stunning. Glad we went in the day as we did Sugar Loaf during the evening so this gave a very different perspective. We also went for a walk along Capacabana and met a...

We made it! After a rather long and tiring plane journey we arrived in Rio. A guy from the hostel we were staying in picked us up and we had one of our most frightening car rides ever through Rio and past some of the Favelas. We stayed in an area of Rio called Botafogo for 3 nights which is quite boho. The hostel was very lively (ie noisy!) but had a great atmosphere. We've done a lot of sightseeing including wandering round the main areas of Rio (not the Favelas...