Tijuca Peak (Finally…)
Finding my way back to Tijuca Forest was definately easier than finding my way there for the first time. For starters, the round trip cost me less than the abortive taxi ride which was rather nice. Exiting the metro system at Sans Paena, I succesfully managed to catch the correct bus, thanks to this bus stop being the one in, well, the first one I’ve seen in Rio that actually has a semblance of a route map as well as a string of bus numbers.
Buses in Rio are a law unto themselves. I think that when they designed the training system for new bus drivers the guy in charge must have sat down and watched the final chase scenes from Terminator 1+2, Speed plus whichever Mad Max film has the petrol tanker in it. As a result, Rio’s bus drivers are trained to ignore any and all traffic in between them and their final destination. True, all other Rio traffic generally follows exactly the same pattern, except the buses are three times the size of everyone else.
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