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Brazil – June 1997



We visited Brazil, population 167 million

 

View of Rio de Janeiro
from Cristo de
Redentor, Jesus Christ
the Redeemer. The
island with the
protruding top is called
Pao de Acucar, or Sugar Loaf
.

 

 

Christ the Redeemer

 

 

 

 

 

View of Rio

 

 

 


City of Petropolis

 

 

The cobble-stoned
streets of Paraty

 

 

 

Paraty

 

 

 

The city of Ouro Preto
(meaning Black Gold)

 

 

 

 

 

Ouro Preto

  

  

 

 

 

 

Church in Ouro Preto

 

 

 


In a former gold mine in Ouro Preto

 

A postcard of Brazil's capital, Sao Paulo,
one of the largest cities in the
world at about 20 million people