So we landed in rio yesterday morning, it's about 35 degrees and super humid. We caught a bus from the airport to our hotel wich was a great opportunity to see the different aspects of the city, from the awesome mountains that surround it to the shanty towns and homeless that seem to be everywhere. It~s amazing how run down this place is, its kind of like fremantle back alleys making up an entire city. The sidewalks are a mozaic of broken concrete and all the buildings and fences have this gangster computergame feel about them, covered in graffiti and dirt.
It turns out that our hotel is in an area named 'centro' which is the business district during the day, but the streets turn into homeless-ville at night, with people making overnight houses out of cardboard boxes and old chipboard. The homeless are friendly though, many selling beer and lollies to make some money.
We checked into the hotel and then me and luke went exploring. We wandered to a huge street market where we scored an awesome turkish bread sandwich, but it was here we realised that nearly no one speaks english and we would probably have to learn some pretty quickly if we didnt want to starve to death.
