Another day, another destination. Today we hopped a bus (side note: I really, really like the public transportation system in Rio de Janeiro) and headed to Sugar Loaf. I’m not really sure how to explain Sugar Loaf other than to say it is a mountain, but fortunately Wikipedia has a nice write-up about it.
Anyway, to get to the top of the mountain you have to take a cable car (two actually). Nothing like being suspended a thousand feet above the ground by cables. And if traveling up mountains by cable wasn’t exciting enough, the wind was blowing something fierce the day we went. It got so bad they actually stopped running the cable cars for about 15min. Oh lucky me…
Once you’re at the top of the mountain, there’s a few things you can do. Shop, eat, look down, go back down the mountain, go to the theater / museum, or catch a helicopter ride for a closeup view of Christ the Redeemer. Other than that, there’s not much up there.
The helicopter ride costs about $200, so that was not an option, and the theater / museum building was closed, so my options consisted of shopping, eating, and looking down. Fortunately for me, the view is absolutely gorgeous. Even better than the view from Corcovado Mountain (in my opinion). Enjoy the photos.
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