Sunday, 19 October 2014
Today I had nothing to do. So I woke up late, and it was actually really late because now the time is an hour later than yesterday. Last night at 12 am Brazil had to change its time to an hour later. It's called daylight saving time. I had no idea what this was, and when I googled it, I found out that it was just a practice of advancing the time during summer so that people wake up earlier and enjoy longer days. I don't understand why one has to adjust the time for this. If the sun rises at 5 am instead of 6 am, and if you wanted to say, jog in the sun, wouldn't it be easier for you to just get up at 5 am instead of adjusting your clock so that you are in fact waking up at 5 am but the time shows 6 am. Bloody confusing. Well, I for one am glad I live in a tropical country with rain and sunshine all year round and there is no need to adjust the time.
I wanted to book my tours for tomorrow and Tuesday, but unfortunately the tour agency that my hotel is in contact with have no tours available! Luckily I saw some tour agencies near Copacobana beach, and I hoped they were opened today so that I could book my tours. Otherwise, I would again have nothing to do for the next 2 days. Although I must say, just hanging out on the balcony or in my room, writing my blog or listening to music is quite fun.
After breakfast I walked around the favela a bit. It is a network of stairs, streets, lanes and even more stairs - almost like a labyrinth, and it took all my brain power to remember where I came from, in order not to get lost. Although there is an elevator going up and down the favela, I notice many people do not use the elevator. This is why most of the people here are very fit. The biggest favela is known as Rocinha (pronounced Hocinia - the 'r' is always pronounced as 'h' here), with more than 70,000 people. I imagine it is a nice cozy place to stay, if not altogether that clean and tidy.
After that I went to a crafts fair near Ipanema beach, where I bought some souvenirs and very quickly ran out of money. While for me, Brazil is still cheaper than Chile, the things here are not that cheap. The cheapest country for me was Peru, followed closely by Argentina (but only because of the black market exchange rate) and Ecuador, and then Uruguay, Brazil, and the most expensive is Chile.
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