I've got just a few minutes sitting here in the hotel lobby before we leave for our 13 hour flight back to the states. It has been one hell of a trip, even if I didn't sleep hardly at all. I did manage to stay up last night until the sky started to get lighter (about 5am), sitting there drinking local beers on Copacabana beach. So yeah, not much time to blog and my head isn't working too well at this point either ;-)

In the morning we took a tour of one of the largest favellas in Rio. The favella is technically a slum, but it turned out to be more of a little town within a town. The tours are completely safe, since the tourism benefits the people in the area quite a bit. It was an amazing experience and I hope to fill out a bit more of this blog later (after some sleep). Anyway, check out the Flickr photos below (you might want to click a picture to look at them on the Flickr site.