Mar 8 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

There are a lot of things to see and do in Rio de Janeiro but the ship will only be here one day. Sam decided to see some of the most popular sites. 

The first thing will be going to the statue of Christ the Redeemer that is high on a mountain over-looking the city of Rio. To get to the top of the mountain, there is a train ride. It seems to go straight up!

Once he reaches the top, Sam wanted his picture taken with the statue in the back. It is really tall, about 100 feet and weighs about 160 tons!

Next the bus tour stopped at a Brazilian restaurant. At this restaurant you first go through a buffet line to pick your salad, vegetable, and side items. Then you sit at your table and the waiters come with a skewer that has some type of meat. If you want what he has on the skewer, he uses a big knife to cut off a portion for you. There are a lot of waiters walking around the dining room with many choices. You can have whatever you like. There was chicken, pork, and beef, pork beef ribs, ribeye, sirloin, and fillet, etc. It was really good!

 

When he came left the restaurant, Sam could see three people, way up high in the sky that were kite-gliding. They were higher than all the buildings! Sam did not think he would like to do anything like that, but he enjoyed watching.

On the way to the next activity, Sam saw beaches including Ipanema and Cocacabana. Most of the people at the beach were not in the water, just on the sand. There were several really neat sand sculptures. Sam wished that the bus would stop and let him spend some time at the beach!

The last activity on the tour was going to Sugar Loaf mountain. To get to the top of the mountain you ride cable cars. You ride on two separate cable cars to reach the top. The cars are big enough to hold 40 people. It was cloudy at the very top of the mountain and you couldn’t see very much. There weren’t clouds at the first level, top of the first mountain, so Sam took some pictures there. There were samples of the first cable cars that were used on the mountain.

Cable car:       

 

 

Old cable car:    

 

Rio from the mountain top: