Rio – Day 3

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, located in the west zone of the City of Rio de Janeiro, comprises extensive landscape gardens and buildings set between mangroves and native Atlantic forest in a mountainous area of the district of Barra de Guaratiba. 

The property was a ‘landscape laboratory’ for landscape architect and artist Roberto Burle Marx. Over a period of more than forty years, he experimented with fusing artistic Modernist ideas and native tropical plants to create garden designs as living works of art.

We then drove from Guaratiba towards Recreio passing though several of the crowded beaches.

Our next stop was for a quick boat tour of Ilha da Gigoia

And to wrap the day I met with friends from college. What a great evening seeing friends from such a long time !