Rio Day 4 - February 24

Went for a hike in the Tijuca forest (urban forest). Unfortunately, the closest thing I took to hiking boots were my shiney sneaker-slides. Also unfortunately, I had blisters on the bottom of my feet already. So the hike was less than comfortable. In the end not as hikey as we thought....the choice was either hiking up a small, barely-visible trail, or along a paved road. We chose paved due to a misinterpretation of the map we purchased (who doesn't include a scale on a map? They totally covered that in grade 5!!!)

We saw some pretty cool bugs and flowers on our hike. And an awesome blue butterfly, which sadly successfully evaded my camera.

Firebloom.