Today was quite a breathtaking day. We didn't even eat breakfast at the hotel, we went straight to Sugar Loaf Mountain located at the mouth of Guanabara Bay. The ride to the top in the cable cars was amazing and Ryan even tried to play 007 from the movie MoonRaker but of course was nothing like him. When we were at the top we had a bite to eat and took lots of pictures. The mountain has a lot of interesting facts about it like how the "Sugarloaf" part came because of the sugar cane trade in Brazil. The mountain is also available for rock climbing but we had no experience whatsoever in the sport so we decided to pass. The original cable cars for the mountain were created in 1912 and lifted people for about 60 years. Sugarloaf mountain is 394 meters high. The name comes from the mountain’s resemblance to a concentrated sugarloaf, so familiar in the city during its sugar cane hey-day.
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