Rio Day 7 - February 27th

During the day, Boy and I went to the Botanical Gardens on the advice of the competent staff lady of our hostel. It was beautiful! All the flowers and plants that I had hoped to see in the urban forest. There were carniverous plants, cacti, there was even an Amazonian section.

Pretty little lake at Botanical Gardens

Amazonian section of Botanical Gardens

In the evening was the Carnivale parade. An extravagant exhibition of flesh and wealth (put on by schools from the poorest districts, which I don't understand!). It was glitzy beyond belief! So cool. And long...at 80min apiece, we stayed for 5 of the 7 schools parading but went home before the last two started - it was 5am at this point. By the time the last school started up it would've been daylight...not sure how the costumes and floats would fare in the daylight.

Boy and I at parade

Got home at 7am, slept until 2pm Tuesday. Later discovered that we have no taste - the school that the 5 of us all picked as our favourite....came in somewhere near the bottom of the pack of 14.