good arrival

day 1: 12 hours of flying is really excruciating. especially when there is a lot of of turbulences around the equator. funny thing was the passenger next to me comes from swiss and he can´t not speak anny English. although my French wasn't that good we can still communicated with each other. by this thank you very much mr. Bovin. touched down on Antonio carlos jobim another problem was arise, my taxi driver cant speak English as well. and because I was still at French mode, our conversation was like mix of Portuguese, French and Spanish all together. Fun fun, after checked in the hostel i decided to check the ipanema beach. the first sight of it disguised me, garbages everywhere, and most of all it was cloudy. because i still hungry i decide to get some food from one of many juice bar / fast food shack.
there is where i met that Brazilian girl, that could speak a little bit English. we had a pleasant conversation. and because the shack is going to close i went back to the hostel;


Day 2: wake up really early in the morning, maybe jet lag, not realizing that the carriocas start the day late on sunday. and it was another cloudy day (not knowing....). so i went to checked the fort of Rio, at least what left of it. that was on the corner between copacabana and ipanema. after that i strolled the beach ( the water is damn cold), because i didnt bring any swimming suit with me, that was the first time i felt like a bloody tourist. the relax easy going carriocas wear swimsuit everywhere i see. after a while the sun breached through the clouds and that was then when Christo started to show his face. thats when i decided to take a walk to the jardim botanico, not a really good decision with my flip-flops to go for walk of 4 km. Jardim botanico is a really amazing place every plants from the amazonia was represented along with another plants from the other parts of the worlds as well. but my favourite is parque lage, a big villa not far from the jardim but also with beautiful landscaping. the villa was on the foot of corcovado so the christ was like a guardian to it.
to fix my swimsuit problem i decided to go to the mall, the leblon shopping mall that is. although you maybe think that there are lot of poverty in Rio, you cant see it represented in this mall. every big brands have a store. luckily i found a really nice swimsuit.