Comments on: From one jungle to another http://tomandzoe.com/log/2008/07/from-one-jungle-to-another/ tales of life from North Queensland, Australia Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:11:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rodders http://tomandzoe.com/log/2008/07/from-one-jungle-to-another/#comment-45233 Rodders Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:53:09 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=989#comment-45233 145 birds... well done! If you have the time, I would recommend going to the national park around the corcovado (Parque Nacional de Tijuca). It's pretty good , even though it's virtually surrounded by the city. There you may have the chance to see some atlantic raiforest specialties like guans, etc. The big christ and the sugarloaf are well worth going. If you take the footpath to the Pão de açucar look for the crazy looking marmoset monkeys. Party in Lapa is definitely fun... but go easy on the caipis. As for safety, I found all those warnings a bit exagerated. You should be safe as long as you have common sense and don't show off your expensive camera or jewelry and don't be a loud tourist. But in any case I guess it's safer to stay away from the favelas. 145 birds… well done!

If you have the time, I would recommend going to the national park around the corcovado (Parque Nacional de Tijuca). It’s pretty good , even though it’s virtually surrounded by the city. There you may have the chance to see some atlantic raiforest specialties like guans, etc.

The big christ and the sugarloaf are well worth going. If you take the footpath to the Pão de açucar look for the crazy looking marmoset monkeys. Party in Lapa is definitely fun… but go easy on the caipis.

As for safety, I found all those warnings a bit exagerated. You should be safe as long as you have common sense and don’t show off your expensive camera or jewelry and don’t be a loud tourist. But in any case I guess it’s safer to stay away from the favelas.

]]> By: timtim http://tomandzoe.com/log/2008/07/from-one-jungle-to-another/#comment-45179 timtim Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:12:26 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=989#comment-45179 perhaps have a bit of a party in Lapa. also there was a place called something like casa del matriz/x/s? that was really fun. you can walk up to the top of the first sugar loaf via a maintenance track from the walk to the right of the mountain.. There is also some sweet climbing there if you have not seen them already. Happy IMD4 people. Goals? Aims? Targets? perhaps have a bit of a party in Lapa. also there was a place called something like casa del matriz/x/s? that was really fun. you can walk up to the top of the first sugar loaf via a maintenance track from the walk to the right of the mountain.. There is also some sweet climbing there if you have not seen them already. Happy IMD4 people. Goals? Aims? Targets?

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