Rio Continued..

Its our last day in Rio today and we dont real want to leave.. The surf has picked up and we´re having a great time here. Although today is raining, it´s been 35deg most days and great for the beach. We fly to Lima, Peru tomorrow, where our first stop is Machu Pichu to check out the Inca ruins and then its up to the central and North coasts for hopefully some of the best surf in our lives!

Since my last post, we have seen a lot more of Rio and the surrounding areas. We partied a little too hard with the locals that were taking us down the coast so everyone slept in and decided to leave it for another day! Turns out the surf was no good anway so we decided to head up to see the Jesus thing instead.. Now as I already said, this was one of the main reasons for me to come to Rio. The weather was not too bad so we got a train up the mountain and climbed upto the statue, only to find that it was completely cloud covered and all we could see was white!! hahaha.. Very disappointing but what can you do, we only had 2 bad days of weather here and we decided to climb the mountain on one of them.. I took a photo of a postcard with the view we were suposed to see and a pic of the view we actually saw!

We went surfing down the coast the next day which was a lot better. We caught a special surf bus with board racks inside it and a DVD player that constantly played surfing DVD´s to get you pumped up for the surf. We ended up surfing at a beach called Macumba which had some wicked waves with some pretty hollow and crazy take-offs! Nicko and I both busted up our hire boards but I´m sure it won´t be the last time one of us busts a board on this trip!!

We also surfed at a beach called Arpoador which had some equally crazy take-offs but we braved it and got some wicked rides :)

In the afternoon we heard there were som really hollow barrels breaking at Copacabana so we raced down there, and they weren´t wrong.. The guys surfing them were either really good or really crazy (prob a bit of both) cos they were 2m+ barrels, breaking in about a foot of water, 5m from the beach. We decided to leave our boards on the beach and body surf them instead which was wicked :)

Great times in Rio and tonight we´re heading to a restaraunt called Porcao Rio´s, an all you call eat place here, recommended by Arthur from work, that boasts the best meat in South America! We need a good feed so looking forward to it. By for now, will write again in Peru if they´ve invented computers there yet!!