Escadaria Selaron - Rio de Janeiro

Although the weather isn't that great here in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday we went ou to Lapa and Santa Teresa....

Between this 2 places there is a stairway "Escadaria Selaron"that is totally covered by little tiles from all over the world. Dutch, portuguese, brazilian, irish, really from everywhere!

The artist is Jorge Selaron a Chilean artist who is a bit crazy.

He also makes art, paintings, and they all have the same image of a pregnant women but with his head on top :-)

Just see some photo's we took of the stairs.

We walked up the stairs in direction to Santa Teresa. We have been there already in September, but it is a nice place to be. We then took the "Bondinho, or tram" down to Lapa. It is an incredible ride as it drives on top of a sort of aqueduct. That was nice :)

In the afternoon, we went back to Ipanema. Another crazy and long bus ride...

We then decided to walk to the "Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas", an extensive lagoon located in the heart of the Ipanema and Leblon - see more info here.

The full loop is 7500 m, which we have walked in about 1:15h. Good exercise and preparation for the evening huge dinner.

Today we are flying home :( We are already checked in and got nice seats in the plane and from tomorrow morning 8am local Lisboa time we are home again....