Brazil - Rio

Copacabana/Ipanema - Corcovado -  Maracana Stadium - National Park
Sambrodomo (Carnaval) - Santa Teresa - Sugarloaf

Santa Teresa is a quaint older neighborhood in Rio, where the wealthy live and used to take
the trolley down into centro to work.

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catching a rest from the heat		 rio_santa_teresa_2_roll_7506.jpg
Corcovado & Christ seen from
Santa Teresa		 rio_santa_teresa_3_roll_7506.jpg
a favela (shanty-town) 
near Santa Teresa
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the trolley museum was closed
but the shop was open		 rio_santa_teresa_5_roll_7506.jpg
a market in Santa Teresa		 rio_santa_teresa_1_ajs.jpg
great metalwork at the 
trolley shop

 
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our taxi driver decided it was
best if a couple of us got
out as we drove down
the steep hills of
Santa Teresa

 

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