Day 44 – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Last day in the big city, U headed to the Cristo Redentor statue. This is the infamous icon you see on all the advertisements of Rio. You board an old cog train and go up through a mini jungle to get to the top of the 400 meter mountain. From here you can get a 360 deg. panoramic view from the hughest point in the city, though I still thunk the view at night from Pao de Acacar was more interesting. I descended and got the local bus number I was supposed to take to the main bus station. I waited and waited and in the 2 secons I was helping some tourists – the bus I needed to flag down passed me by. Ergg, waited again and when ut finanly arrived, ut was the wrong bus number I was given. So I relented a grabbed a taxi. As we crawled along in traffic, the cops on one side of the street were screaming at a motorcyclist on the other side of the street slowing down because of a flat tire. Not sure what the miscommunication was bit the cops pulled out their handguns and were pointing them as they crossed in front of the taxi. Wonderful, I have managed to avoid trouble on the trip so far and I am going to get caught in a crossfire of overzealous cops. They looked at his license, decided they made a mistake and left. OK then. I got my bus and watched the moonlit landscape on my way back south to Sao Jose.
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dunlewey
Corcovado is not the highest place in city, and it’s also not 400 meters, but 710m.
The highest place on the center of the town is tijuca peak, with over a thousand meters, and white rock peak on the western side, with 1100m.