At no point did the place look anything like what the guidebooks show, yet from glimpses I knew that everything I'd ever heard or read about the place was true.
Nowhere else on earth is there a city setting like this. For drama, Rio beats hands-down Sydney, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Cape Town.
Tall mountains clad in rainforest and favelas; a coastline punctuated with bays, lagoons and legendary beaches; vast concrete fly-overs and tunnels ploughing through mountainsides.
Between all this - on every buildable square metre of land - the city sprawls and climbs, a chaotic din of dirty and dishevelled styles and scales.
Rio is spectacular, edgy, thrilling and sexy, and I can't wait to return.
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