Thursday 27th February 2014
This is it! Our last few of days of travelling and Rio Carnival to see it out. Not only that but our last accommodation was a castle no less! Castelo Valentim is high up in Santa Teresa and we had views right over the city from the balcony. We had three days and two nights left when we arrived. We had woken at 3am to catch our flight from Natal so we were pretty knackered but managed to make good use of the day in any case.
We spent our last night before carnival on a bit of a bar crawl around Ipanema and Leblon. We found a bar on the edge of the Lagoa and celebrated our last unplanned evening out in South America with bottle of Prosecco and then headed home to get a good nights rest before the finale the following day.
Getting around Rio during Carnival can take some time. There are parades in the streets and road blocks all over the city as we found trying to leave the Santa Teresa which has few routes to the centre. That part was not unlike Notting Hill carnival, the Sambadrome though was much more organised and we had great tickets. I can’t think of a better way we could have ended our trip!
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