Back in Rio de Janeiro. The final destination!

And here we are, our final destination. All we´d been hoping for was some sun and finally over the last 2 days our prayers have been answered. After a couple of days of cloudy overcasts and very bad weather forecasts our luck finally changed yesterday and we were treated to a morning of glorious sunshine and again today. Naturally, when it´s sunny in Rio, you head to the beach so we´ve enjoyed two days back on Ipanema. It was a strange feeling walking back on to the beach the first time thinking back to November when we first arrived in South America, we´ve been and done so much since last time we were here.

When the weather wasn´t so good we headed to the modern art museum which you can see in the photos. I absolutely love it! It looks like something out of a James Bond film doesn´t it. Dr No´s lair or something. Fantastic. It was completed in 1996 if I remember. The art inside wasn´t very impressive but we spent a while just sitting outside looking at the building.

So we´ve been really glad that the weather turned for the good in the end. The clouds still tend to roll over in the afternoon and we´ve just had the most amazing thunderstorm with amazingly heavy rain but the mornings are very sunny and hot. So this means that objective number one of our time in Rio is slowly being addressed. We plan to head up Sugar Loaf mountain and to see the Jesus statue over the next few days but, being quite high in terms of altitude, both are a bit weather dependant. There´d be no point going up only to have your head in the clouds, literally. Other than that we haven´t many plans. Maybe a few nights out and a trip to a restaraunt. The hostel we´re staying in is nice enough with a good bunch of people in it so it´s not hard to spend the evenings watching a film or chatting away.

We´re heading back to Ipanema tomorrow to visit a market and then hopefully back on to the beach. Look back at the photo of us there in November. The sight of that mountain as a backdrop to the beach really is fantastic. It surely has to be the best city beach in the world.

I´ll try and do another little update before our time is up. It´s a bit mad to think that we´re heading back to London in 5 days. Not somewhere else in South America which we´ve come accustomed to but London. Cold, grey London.