Rio de Janeiro, New Year's Eve

Before the big event on Copacabana beach, we shared a few home and quality-made Caipirinhas with our great hosts from the first night, Claude and Iveth, in their flat at 200 m from the beach.

We then went to the beach, where every year the dress-code is white. Thank you Arnaud for respecting the tradition!

Every year this event gathers 2 000 000 + people from all around the world. This picture shows the crowd but also the great weather we had...

...and so does this one!

13 minutes and 6 seconds (True story!) of fireworks...

...after which our national David Guetta made the show!!! Woof!

After a short night of sleep (and a quite adventurous 2h-ish journey back to the hostel), we went around the center and Ipanema.

Here is the quite surprising Metropolitan Cathedral, 60m high of pure concrete...

Paraty & Trindade

After a short time in Rio (the one and only sunny hours of the end of the year), we went straight to Paraty.

On the first day, we went on a kayak tour of the mangroves. Unfortunately, the camera remained in the waterproof box...

For lunch we had fresh fish (considering the time they needed to serve us, I would say they went fishing right after the order)

On our second day in Paraty, we went to Trindade, after a nice breakfast on the beach (with croques monsieur!)

In Trindade, one of the famous spots is the Pedra que engole (the rock that swallows). Here at work with Sevag

 All thats left of him:

Do not worry, he did come out eventually, right on time to enjoy a few hours on the beach.