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well friends my secret visitor
has arrived my lovely mom liana has swallowed all the way from canada to rio de janeiro from
but mom today is your third day here in rio
what would you say are your first impressions of the city
well today we are actually going to be doing the main attractions of the city like
price the redeemer which from our hotel is like over here somewhere
and then we're going to be doing sugarloaf which is behind me we've got the beautiful copacabana
beach uh right behind me as well but we actually hired a private guide for the day you can do like
group tours but if you guys uh saw the video that i did with rio for fun which is an awesome
uh local tour company i hired one of their private guides to show us around and go exactly to the
places that we want to go throughout the day and just have it be you know a smaller group
so yeah i'm super excited today's gonna be a great day and let's get started
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well we made it guys one of the seven wonders of the world we've got christ
the redeemer it is definitely an amazing view from here isn't it
unforgettable yes but they weren't kidding about the crowds like it is
it is ridiculous and today is a tuesday so on the weekends it would just be overwhelmingly intense
so
all right guys we just got to downtown and we are walking around the streets
very interesting architecture here from many hundreds of years ago and we're actually going
to be popping into a super famous cafe that i read about called colombo cafe
where just the architecture inside of it is incredible but you can also get a lot of like
you know traditional brazilian snacks so i'm super excited for that
all right so we just got to colombo cafe and it is beautiful oh my god
yes there will be everything
actually this place reminds me of when my mom and i were in paris and we went to the cafe uh
angelina which was like this beautiful like old parisian style
there's something about this a slightly bit yeah this is much older than angelina
so yeah i'm so excited to try some of the snacks here the desserts look great so cool
i've never seen anything like that to make more tasteful yeah we're gonna add
a few drops of spicy uh-huh about taste we don't discuss yeah you might like it or not
but i like it nice all right guys we just sat down and i ordered an appetizer of a shrimp
croquette which i don't think i've ever had in like brazil or colombia before so i'm excited to
try it and then uh my guy thiago told me that i am allowed to order from the children's menu so
i got the children's dish with like uh the like rice beans meat the very like traditional meal
oh and fries yes and fries so that is gonna be my maid i'm very excited
here we are guys we've got this beautiful traditional dish looks amazing i am so excited
all right friends we are at one of the most famous
attractions of rio which is the celeron steps these are basically on the border
of the neighborhood that is called lapa it's a very bohemian artsy sort of neighborhood
lots of really nice restaurants and bars these famous stairs were actually made by the artist
jorge celeron who was originally from chile but came to rio as a tourist absolutely fell in love
with the city he made his home at the top of these stairs which wasn't here before he decided to
build this himself and since he was such an artist he wanted to make it a beautiful creative
sort of endeavor but because he started running out of money and tiles were expensive
he started asking tourists who were visiting rio to send him tiles from his home country and to
give it a sort of interesting aspect of having tiles from different places all around the world
yeah you always dress the same yeah then when it was cold you wear some red shirts
great looking guys that we are looking at
at bathtubs wow bathtub that's the better look how many bathtubs you collect
all right guys so this is actually two days later after our initial tour where unfortunately it
started to rain and was super cloudy over sugar loaf so we weren't able to see it
two days ago but now we are going to go all the way up
so i'm a bit upset uh we're waiting here for the tickets at sugarloaf
and it turns out my mom can't go because anybody 50 and over has to have a booster shot like what
to go on a stupid cable car you need a booster like we were able to get into the country with two
vaccines but for anybody 50 and older they've made this stupid rule that you need to have a booster
shot so now my mom has to go sit at a cafe and only me and thiago can go that is just ridiculous
yeah different angles
all right guys we just got to the first base of sugar loaf and they actually have uh
the two cable cars that existed before the brand new ones who's this handsome man
he looks like my grandpa oh yeah mr ramos he was the visioner he spent all his money in the cable
car people trolled him treat him as a madman hurry up only 14 people wow i was on duty from 1912
uh-huh 72 for 60 years and was it open air or do you know like it just was like i just have
a door here uh-huh exactly and in 1972 yeah i inaugurated that one yes you can do a tattoo here
and that's the same one they used for filming james law moon riker
yeah i recommend watching the movie was josh the metal thieves biting the cable that was on
their action scene they might jump from one cable car to the other one yeah it's a must
do
so first of all the view almost fell there uh is spectacular my god
i have never seen a landscape for a city like rio before it is spectacular
but what i also feel i should mention uh that definitely has happened every day
that i've been here in rio is that the weather changes so quickly like literally it can go from
you know complete sunshine not a cloud in the sky to this slightly overcast and it could rain any
you minute what do you want from me
all right 10 days in rio de janeiro has come to an end speech mama what would you say have
been your highlights i think i will remember this time long time yeah it's a memorable trip
right because you've never been to the tropics before she's never been to like a tropical sort of
time that's one thing and other things come from canada where is now -30 and here very big contrast
yes it was beautiful time and thank you for uh giving me we've been discovered rio de janeiro
we've been i seeing many places historical places and the cultural places and we spent a
lot of time at the beach almost every day because because which was the third my thing i wanted to
see the ocean every day alina was sleeping more longer than me so i
was wake up at 6 00 at 7 00 am and went to the beach right away and also guys i want to make a
mention that obviously my priority in the last 10 days or whatever has been to be with my mom
so i didn't you know film everything that we saw we actually saw a lot more places but i did
instagram story it so if you did want to see the other places we visited just follow me
at alina mccloud and check out the story rio de janeiro will probably call it
because we went to like the botanical gardens which was super cool we went to the copacabana
palace which is like a really famous five-star hotel and had my mom's birthday breakfast there
so yeah we checked out a whole bunch of other really great places that aren't in this video
so if you wanted some other ideas just follow me on instagram and check it out but yeah i hope you
guys enjoyed this video let me know your thoughts in the comments mom thank you so much for coming
all the way from canada and joining me here in rio and let me know if you guys have other suggestions
for places i should visit in brazil in general and as always i'm sending you guys so much love
hope you're having a fantastic day and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
you