Sugar Loaf mountain – a huge mountain in the middle of the city

Just a few kilometres from Corcovado – and right next to the beach – is a huge rock face called Sugar Loaf (because it looks like a sugar loaf … see what you think?)



By the time we took the (rather crowded) cable cars up to the top, evening approached. It was a gorgeous sunset, and you can even see the large statue of Jesus (albeit very faintly) in the top left hand corner of this evening shot of Rio’s city …



Night time brought even more incredible views of this incredible city: