Boat trip was brilliant, not very cultural just consisted of drinking and eating and singing as loud as we could while dancing on top of the boat... all good fun. Then that night we went to Da house club in Leblon, brilliant music.
The next day we went the christ statue, we didnt go all the way to the top as they had stopped letting people in so we went to a spot just further up the road, but the views were just as good, you could see for miles.
The next day we decided to do sugar loaf mountain for sunset, you have to get a tram which takes you to the top of the mountain, pretty scary but well worth it when you get to the top, it was so peaceful, you could just sit there for hours. When we got back we just stayed in at the hostel.
Today has been a little bit more of a culture shock, we went on the favela tour (a shanty town), when we arrived we had to get on the back of these motorbikes and get taken to the top of the town..... very scary, but so much fun once we realised we were still alive when we got to the top! Then we walked throughout the whole town, there was 200,000 people living there and only 4 schools, crazy!! Its hard to take in how people live like that, and yet they all seem so happy, the children there were adorable, they all wanted to be cuddled or have their picture taken with you.
We were encouraged to take pictures and show the kids as they enjoyed seeing themselves, but at certain times you were not allowed to take pictures, this was when the men with guns and fireworks were about. The fireworks get set off if police come into the shanty town as this then alerts all the men with guns to get ready for fire. The police and the gangs then fire at each otherand people get caught in between, such a culture shock but really good experience.
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