Chile's Santiago & Brazil

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January 5th 2018

Published: January 17th 2018

Landing into Chile, Santiago gave us the first taste of our fourth and final continent on this trip! Struggling with jetlag, most of our 4 day visit was spent trying to adjust to the 14 hour time change from Australia. When we weren't sleeping, we managed to participate in a couple of walking tours which was a great way to learn a bit about the colonial history of Chile and the recent brutal dicta... Read Full Entry

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Life on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro

More street art in Rio! Middle guy is the Chilean born Jorge Selarón

Jorge Selarón started the Escadaria Selarón tiles in 1990 and didn't stop until he died in 2013.

The Bondinho Train in Santa Teresa

The Royal Palace for the Portuguese Monarchy when they moved to Rio

Portugal was under threat from France's Napoleon who would attack if the Portuguese continued their trade of South American gold with Britain. Britain threatened to sink Portuguese ships if they decided to stop the trade! So the Portuguese Royal Family moved to Rio to continue their trade with Britain and get away from Napoleon!

Cathedral taken for the use by the Royal Family

Theatro Municipal

Many of these buildings were built by the Portuguese who wanted to bring culture to Brazil. Widening streets for these buildings created huge homelessness and contributed to the development of the favelas.

One of the many alleyways in Rio with homeless people

Some people who are homeless cannot afford to commute to work each day from the favalas so sleep on the streets. We wondered how many of Rio's residents benefited from the hosting of the World Cup and Olympics in recent years.

View of Sugarloaf Mountain from Flamengo Beach

Life on Copacabana Beach

Clockwise from top left: -Locals playing Footvolley (same principles as volleyball but instead of using hands, feet and heads are used to keep the ball alive) -....98, 99, 100.... No need to say anymore, some athlete! -Some sort of exercise class taking place on the beach

A Rio de Janeiro favela

One quarter of Rio's population of 6 million live in favelas. (Photo is a google image because we didn't get a good photo ourselves).

Igreja Nossa Semhora days Dores (Our Lady of Sorrows Church) in Paraty

This was used as the church for the rich ladies of Paraty. Also, cars are not allowed into the historic city centre, hence the horse and trap!

The cobbled streets of Paraty

The buildings were all white on purpose. If Paraty was attacked, the same colour buildings make it it difficult for the intruder to see where different streets join.

Every doorway was the entrance to a store

All these stores and homes were built by African slaves who were brought here by the Portuguese to help mine gold. Many who died an route were buried under the cobbled streets of Paraty

A view of the UNESCO town of Paraty

Enjoying the views from Morro do Forte, Paraty

And you thought it was another angle of Christ The Redeemer!

The other churches of Paraty

Clockwise from top left: Santa Rita de Cassia (church for the former slaves) Nossa Senhora do Rosário (church for the slaves) Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (main church for the wealthy residents of Paraty)

Sao Paulo Cathedral - the world's 4th largest neo-gothic cathedral

Construction only began in 1913 and can hold 8,000 people!

Sao Paulo streets

Believe it or not there is a river flowing under the ground here!

Participating in a Walking Tour around Sao Paulo

Not being a tourist city, a walking tour was the only way we felt safe to see Sao Paulo!

Some of the streets around Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo

Christmas Dinner in Sao Paulo!

Not quite turkey and ham! We were lucky to have anything at all - we arrived to our apartment at 17.00pm on Christmas Eve and had to make a mad dash for a supermarket before they all closed at 18.00pm for the holidays!

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