Fio Dental - Chapter 4: São João del Rei
July 7th 2006 A 19th-century steam engine company operates a scenic tourist line of old passenger carriages between Tiradentes and São João del Rei. Called the Maria Fumaça (Smoking Mary), it epitomizes everything I set out to avoid while abroad. It costs over triple the bus fare, but in return it is supposed to bring visitors back to the classic age of South American train travel. A real-life manifestat
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