Morro da Babilônia-Babylon Mountain and Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro

These are the mountains that we saw ALL over Brasil.

On our drive from Penedo back to Rio, we saw

this mountain ridge. It was amazing and beautiful.

See those wire-looking things?
They automatically fill the tire with air,
if the tire starts to run flat.
We had lunch in this restaurant.
It has a tree growing in the middle of it!

We hiked a trail at Sugar Loaf, to go rock climbing.

We got "all geared up". This is Brian

doing the belay.

The climb was at approximately an 80 degree angle.

Daniel doing the belay.

(That is our rock climbing instructor behind Daniel.)

That is Dave on the left, and Daniel on the right.

We hiked the Morro de Babilonia.

Dave working his way up the mountain.

He was part-way up. He went a little further.

Dave on left, Brian on right.

That is my big behind, on the left. Daniel on the right.

I climbed as high as the birds fly.

Having fun, coming down.

This is the view from the top. Amazing!!

See the cables that take you to Sugar Loaf?

The first mountain is Morro de Urca,

Sugar Loaf is on the back-right.

Another view from the top.

We rode those cables over to Sugar Loaf.

It looks a lot higher from a distance. ☺

Daniel climbing up.

That is Daniel, see how far we are at the bottom?

Brian coming to the top of the mountain.

The sun was going down as we finished. I got this picture

as we were hiking back down the mountain.

Really, really cool!

This is the view from our hotel at Copacabana.

See the streets? Each city has their own design.