We are eating tropical fruits on the beach all day while people come selling us acai sorbet and ice cream.
The best beach for the sea is ipanema because although the current is so strong that if you stand on the shore line and don't watch your footing it will drag you into its 5 ft shore dump waves, it's warm and really fun to just play with in the shallows.
The sand is too hot to walk on we literally have to hop across it. If you try to go in the sea to go for a wee you may (Ken) get taken out by a 6 ft wave (on the shoreline) that is full of jellyfish that locals in the sea are throwing onto the beach and decide against it so hop over to the lifeguard hut and then realize there are no steps so hop all the way up the ramp and then realize you have no money in your bikini for the loo so hop all the way back to the girls on the beach or wait for a whole family of Brazilian women to finish having a shower in the sink whilst you are waiting in the direct sun still hopping because the toilet attendant told you not to wait in the shade because it is in the way haha
Then a man in a red hat can pick up the jellyfish and speak in Portuguese about it but you don't have your phrase book in your bikini pocket so you nod and smile and then he puts the jelly fish on his skin and then tells you they're all dead and it's fine to swim with them. Then he takes his hat off and gives it to me and leads Kat by the hand into the sea and I don't know what to do with the hat because I want to go in the sea too so do I wear it in or is that rude so I wait until he looks and then raise the hat with a questioning face and then I go in the sea and give him his hat and we all swim then he finds a heart shaped dead jellyfish and then we leave the sea because we still can't really understand him but get the jist haha
We have seen Copacabana beach on day one, Leblon the next day, then Sao Conrado, ipanema and then back to Copacabana. Today we decided our skin deserved a break (good choice really because today it's 36 degrees) so we went to see Christ the Redeemer and the Lapa steps.
We got a bus to the bottom of the mountain on top of which Christ is perched and then got in a van which drives up a vertical ear popping mountain and then you get out and Christ is there massive and it's hotter than hot and there are a thousand tourists and the view is absolutely breathtaking.
The Lapa steps were my favourite though because they're super vibrant and cool as fuck.
The pavements here are mosaic and there are green coconut trees growing along the boardwalk
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