Trip around Brazil, 2007 (158 images)

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Café in São Paulo


MASP art gallery and Paulista avenue


Detail of the municipal theatre in São Paulo


The municipal theatre in São Paulo


Sé cathedral in São Paulo


The São Paulo stock exchange


A huge apartment building


Me and friends at a restaurant in São Paulo


Scenery on the way to Rio de Janeiro


A wooden palette falling off a truck hit our bus


Glimpse of Cristo statue


Pão de Açucar (Sugar Loaf) hills


Fish at a grocery store in Rio


Eduardo Carrilho, his students and me at IME


An avenue in Copacabana neighborhood


Waves in Copacabana


Copacabana beach


Polluted water in Copacabana


Ipanema beach


Sale of bikini


The surf at Ipanema


Me at Ipanema beach


View from a bus in Rio


The train going up Corcovado hill


View from Corcovado hill - Rodrigo de Freitas lake


Me and Cristo


View of Botafogo neighborhood, where I stayed


Botafogo beach and Pão de Açucar hills


The grand view from the Cristo statue


Some hills in Rio de Janeiro


Pão de Açucar hills at sunset


Me at the Cristo statue


View of Rio de Janeiro from Corcovado hill


View from Corcovado hill - sunset


View of Rodrigo de Freitas lake at sunset


Botafogo beach and Pão de Açucar at dusk


View of Rio de Janeiro at night


Cristo statue at night


Orchideas at the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro


A path in the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro


Base station of the cable car up Pão de Açucar hills, surrounded by military buildings and IME


The higher hill of Pão de Açucar


The cable car between the two Pão de Açucar hills


Copacabana beach as seen from Pão de Açucar hills


Me on top of the higher Pão de Açucar hill


The cable car going up the higher Pão de Açucar hill


Street light in Rio de Janeiro with lots of birds


City hall of Rio de Janeiro


Pink flowers in downtown Rio de Janeiro


Metropolitan catherdral of Rio de Janeiro


Inside the metropolitan cathedral of Rio de Janeiro


On an ancient streetcar in Santa Teresa


The streetcar in Santa Teresa neighborhood


Favelas in Rio de Janeiro


Graffiti


Tiles used to decorate facades of buildings


My bed at the hostel in Rio de Janeiro


Out with friends on Friday night


The Lapa neighborhood at night


Porto da Barra in Salvador da Bahia


A turret of a fort


Sea foam


Rainbow over Barra beach in Salvador da Bahia


Barra beach


Sunset at Barra beach in Salvador da Bahia


Poor vendor in Salvador da Bahia prepares his merchandise


Rosário dos Pretos church in Salvador da Bahia


São Domingos church in Salvador da Bahia


São Francisco church in Salvador da Bahia


Old Faculty of Medicine in Salvador da Bahia


Rio Branco palace in Salvador da Bahia


Lacerda elevator between the lower and upper city of Salvador da Bahia


The plano inclinado street car between the lower and upper city


Neighborhood of Salvador da Bahia


Do Bugari beach in Salvador da Bahia


Salvador da Bahia


Boa Viagem beach in Salvador da Bahia


Nosso Senhor do Bonfim church in Salvador da Bahia


Fonte da Rampa do Mercado sculpture, commonly referred to as “the butt”


Night sky in Salvador da Bahia


Boats at Praia do Forte


Coral reef in Praia do Forte


View from Praia do Forte


Me at the TAMAR project


Sea turtle


Sea turtle peaking from its tank


Beach at Praia do Forte


The lighthouse in Praia do Forte


Palm tree


Sunset in Salvador da Bahia


View from the place I stayed in Salvador da Bahia


Friend Xico and me


Convention centre Ulysses Guimarães, Brasília


View of downtown Brasília


National Congress with all the ministries lined on both sides


National theatre Cláudio Santoro, Brasília


National library, Brasília


National Congress, Brasília (1)


The Communist party of Brazil celebrates 85 years


National Congress, Brasília (2)


A detail of the National Congress, Brasília


Planalto palace


Square of the Three Powers, Brasília


Draft plan for Brasília


Metropolitan cathedral Nossa Senhora Aparecida, Brasília


Inside the metropolitan cathedral


Exit of the cathedral


National museum, Brasília


The ramp of the National museum in Brasília


Twilight in Brasília


Metropolitan cathedral at night


Canal in Amazonia


Rainbows over the rainforest


São Sebastião church, Manaus


Amazonas theatre and Abertura dos Portos monument at night


My bed at the hostel in Manaus


Amazonas theatre, Manaus


Street in Manaus


Huge fish on sale in Manaus


The passenger harbor in Manaus


Architecture in Manaus


Hotel Seduction. Promotion: 3 hours for 10 reals


Floating gas station


View of the jungle (1)


A river in Amazonia (1)


Small cayman


River in Amazonia (2)


Pink dolphin (in the distance)


Huge water lillies (diameter >1 m)


Sunset in the jungle


Some venomous snake


A nice bird


Sunset over Mamori lake


Morning mist in Amazonia


Domestic pigs with piglets


View of the jungle (2)


Flooded forest (1)


Many kinds of trees have spikes


Spider


Creek in the jungle


Me at a waterfall in the jungle


Me swimming in Amazonia


My guide and our jungle camp


Termite nest in the tree


Looking to the top of the jungle trees


Our canoe


Piranha teeth


Red piranha


Sunset in Amazonia


Members of the family where we slept two nights and my guide


Me and the daughters of the family where we slept two nights


Amazon farm


Flooded forest (2)


The road back to Manaus


Meeting of the waters, Rio Negro and Amazonas


Typical store in Manaus


Manaus at dusk


Flight back to Florinópolis