Both Bindu and Antoine made us very welcome and advised on a number of things we could do. There were an array of travel books on Rio De Janeiro so we could also easily plan our day. We especially appreciated Bindu arranging for us to go to a Samba Club with a local who turned out to be very fun and full of information about Rio.

The walk down to the village was an easy ten minutes, the walk back uphill took some effort as we are obviously not fit!