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Published: July 17th 2008
The Mercure
The hotel from T.V Tower, you may be able to notice the roof top swimming pool, hahahaBrasilia, the capital of Brazil.
We flew from Natal to Brasilia and the flight was three hours. It cost us e180 and we departed in the middle of the night.
In Brasilia the hotels slash there prices at the weekend, and its possible to stay in a high class hotel for the cost of a hostel in Dublin. We got the Mercure Apartment hotel for e50 a night for the room, and as you can see from the pictures its wasn't up to much lol!!!!
In Brasilia the main attraction is the architecture.It was a planned city built in the 1960´s. The designers involved in the construction were as follows, Lucio Costa was the urban planner, Oscar Niemeyer was the principle architect and the landscape architect was Roberto Burle Marx. Designed around a aeroplane fuselage, its has a 5km mid section with the wings being the suburbs where most of the people live. The cockpit is where all the government buildings are located and also housing the seat of government, they don't work weekend's so we didn't see them!!
Restaurant's are really expensive in the city centre and basically cater for business people, however there are many shopping centres that have
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The reason why we posted these pictures up is to highlight the struggle us backpackers have to endure cheap and tasty food and that is where all the locals go to eat.
You would not require more that a weekend in the city to see all the main sights. The architecture is very impressive and the city was designed for cars so all the traffic flows smoothly. See the pictures for the road layout and buildings.
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Margaret Corey
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Just to make you earn your readership. Who designed most of the architecture in these shots?