Sugar Loaf and Pedra de Guaratiba

Tricia Dowhan and I at the Point of Grumari Restaurant after a full day tour

She ordered the Muqueca de Frutos do Mar ( a mix of fish with a touch of brazilian spicies) , a really typical brazilian food

the nature and the birds in a really paradise in Barra da Tijuca

we riding on the boat watching the beauty of the Island

The houses are built next to the water they have their own beauty and peculiarities

Laerte the boat driver knows every corner of this Island

This is a view of Guanabara bay and you can see the little boats on Botafogo beach

If you go to Sugar Loaf you will see the climbers with their classes trying to reach the mountain top on the back of the picture the Mountain of Sugar Loaf

SUGAR LOAF AND MARACANA STADIUM

The Sugar Loaf is a place that you will enjoy a lot , there is a cable car that takes you up to the Mountain from there you can see all Rio de Janeiro and sorrounding areas , when I went there the weather was nice , we could take good photos and get the best of it



In this  view  we can see Copacabana beach   on all of its extension with the Mountains





The cable car goes from one Mountain to the other every twenty minutes , it´s very safe to go there

Maracana the worlds greatest playground for the famous soccer star Pele

who became the world´s greatest football players in the world and was discovered at the age of 11 moved he to Santos and then became a soccer legend ,also with Ronaldo , Romario and Kaka the lists go on.................

the Stadium was built in 1950 for the fourth world cup , it has this name from the small river that flows by the facility and was also the name of a bird , Maracana .was the name given by the local people ( cariocas )

Today we are applying for the 2016 Olimpic Summer Games were plans are made to use the Stadium as ground for football, voleyball and waterpolo . and the girls from Argentina were there to check how beautiful is the Stadium