The Botanical gardens offer a brief, but welcome respite from the buzz of Rio, with its avenues of trees seemingly stretching up into the rainforest and the Christo perched as always with his eyes and arms over the city. We ambled in the shade until we came across a man made waterfall which begged to be jumped under...
Having cooled down we got talking to a family from Sau Paulo, and it turns out the dad was a creative director of an advertising, which all fitted rather conveniently with the story I´m shooting there. With an offer to stay, followed by an invite to lunch, we hailed a cab and made our way to Leblon.
We didn´t realise at the time but Sushi Leblon is one of the most rated restaurants in the city and rightly so - the nigri was divine, the tempura heavenly and that was before another course that we were recommended which had me on the floor...
Sunset on Ipanema that night was jaw dropping - its an incredible beach with a spectacular mountain at one end, filled along it length with beautiful people looking beautiful or showing some passion for volleyball or football.
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