Holy f**k Brazil and in particular Rio - is my ideal landscape.
I am a huge fan of Sydney's eastern beaches - Bondi, Tamarama, and Bronte - the landscape, the beach quality, the fun atmosphere, the unique quality of the fact that the whole area is big slabs of sandstone. The sandstone is a real added value for Sydney and I think that for this fact - for the fact that Sydney is mostly Sandstone - I think this is why the ocean, and the city itself is pretty clean. There is less dirt hanging round you when the whole place is built from rock.
But why rabbit on about Sydney?
Because Rio has so much similarity. It has the same party vibe (x5), it is the type of place you want to go surfing, swimming, running and just getting outside and getting busy - Rio and Sydney have a lot in common because they both inspire this same energy. They both have a real similarity in the way that the actual landscape is made up also. The difference being that Rio isn't Sandstone, it is volcanically built rock, but this gives Rio a similar sense of cleanliness, and the hardness that perhaps comes from having rock right underfoot is perhaps evident in both the Sydney and Rio cultures. The people are a little hard..! In a much more murderous way in Rio, but still, comparison's can be drawn here. Rio has this Joint called sugar loaf mountain, it is a cable car ride almost straight up and sugar loaf mountain is a volcanically created super over sized pebble shaped rock that just bumps straight up out of the coastline. It is a beautiful thing with even more crazily beautiful views.
One part of the view from sugar loaf mountain is 'the Christo' - a ridiculous and beautiful gift from France. This sculptural wonder was erected in a position that makes the mind boggle as to how it physically happened, up on a steep azz mountain across the city from sugar loaf, which sits just a tad out from the coast and looks back in on the city in from a position that could not have been planned better, sugar loafs position is a well placed natural accident. The Christo is a well documented tourist attraction, and for very good reason, it really is a magnificent thing - it is epicly huge and it stands above, and protects the city and is further symbol of a deep sense of faith it seems that the brazilian population seems to have.
What up!
- Dan