Sunday 15th April 2012

Sunday 15th April 9th

This is our rest day and that is what we did,rest. We had booked a hand gliding adventure we were to fly like birds from an altitude of 520 m from Tijica National park ,and land on Sao Conrado Beach,but there was no wind today and  it was called off .
Have to leave this one on our bucket list.
We walked from Copacabana beach to Ipanerma Beach and back it was about 8klms, but first thing this morning we got caught up with marathon runners ,it was 9/30and 30deg and not breeze,we walked the length of the shore is was a lovely stroll and watching the "beautiful"people strut their stuff, it is just so vibrant and little bands are playing the Samba along the fore shore many hawkers from the favelas trying to earn a living it really was a great morning.

As we strolled back we had to  lunch, so we stopped at a little food stall and had the best seafood platter.It was brought out on a little hot plate with prawns and calamari, salmon,carrots and broccoli. Vic and I shared Nina and Bruno also had one,Erica had deep fried chicken and garlic. It was a real feast.
The temp now is 33deg and we are hanging out for a swim.
We have found the people very helpful and very polite, if we can't get them to understand we do our little charades and we get what we need.
The place is very clean,and the traffic looks out for motorcycles and they move over.


Tomorrow we have our jeep tour of Rio de Janeiro should be interesting