Travels with David and Bonnie

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Christ the Reedeemer on Corcovado Hill

Rio De Janeiro from Corcovado Hill (We could hear gun shots from below of the drug wars while on this hill.)

View from Hotel Room (Lebion Beach and Slums)

Ipanema Beach

Mythological Guanabara

Christ the Reedeemer on Corcovado Hill

Copacabana Beach

View of Rio De Janeiro from Sugar Loaf Mountain

Sugar Loaf Mountain

Flamengo Beach

Municipal Theater

Graffiti on Lapa Aqueduct

Metropolitan Cathedral

Old Portuguese Section of Rio

Samba Parade Area

Slums as We Entered Rio De Janeiro

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Flowers

Rainforest Vegetation

More of Iguassu Falls

Iguassu Falls National Park in Brazil

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Gemstone Shop

Entering Brazil - Nov. 25, 2010

Late this afternoon we entered Brazil. On the way to the Iguassu Falls, we stopped at a gem store where they had beautiful expensive pieces made from their gemstones. The saying is "Argentina has the falls but Brazil has the view;" and what a view it was. It was magnificent. We walked for over a mile in front of the Iguassu Falls. From there we flew to Rio De Janeiro where we stayed in a hotel on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean. Parts of our tour and the Samba Show was canceled because of the gun fighting going on in the drug war there. We took a cable car up Sugar Loaf Mountain for a stunning view of the city, went to Copacabana Beach, Ipanema Beach, took a cog railway through the rain forest up Corcovado Mountain, a 2300 ft. peek, to the landmark statue of Christ the Redeemer.