Rachel+G-H

Finally at Rio! ...we were supposed to be a little dissapointed, but after seeing the gorgeous parks, the long never-ending rows of Royal Palms, lunching at the small Copacabana Hotel, the marvelous sea drive, and the the beautiful Tijuca drive, ending with a delicious dinner at the Embassy, I was ready to declare Rio "the most beautiful city in the world!" Rio de Janeiro lies in a landlocked golf, it is twenty miles long, the channel is less than one mile wide, guarded by high points of land along the coastline and dotted with a rocky isle. the city is backed up by high hills. ont he southern side of the gulf, Rio follows the shore for about five or six miles, broken by ridges running down to the water and by many inlets. Along the shore, clopsed in by mountains and sea, run parellel avenues. //"Pan de Azucar",// a cone of bare granite that has a imposing height and aerial railways runs, is on the ridge between the bay and the ocean. Corcovado is a vertical shaft twenty-three hundred feet high, the strange shaped composing its needle like form making it a really cool sight. From the summit, reached by a cog- wheel railway, the combination of the rush of a sunshine, a beach of dazziling white sand, a sea of turqouise blue and feathery forest make a gorgeous panorama. All around the city are a multitude of peaks and heights, the nearer ones crowned by villas. Along the curving shore runs the Avenida Beira Mar, a glorios boulevard with wonderful views of sea and mountains. At night the miles palm-fringed and brilliantly-lighted boulevard make a vertible fairy-land. The bay is nearly one hundred miles in circumference, giving a marvelous setting, to which the magnificent drives and parkways, wide streets, and new and beautiful buildings fully live up.