Manaós: Mother of God

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Hello!

Fernando and I just got back from a week in the south, visiting Santos and Rio de Janeiro. Rio was so pretty and much more then I expected. We stayed in a room in Linda´s house a block away from Copacobana beach. Linda is a woman who used to live in Manaus. We got her phone number last minute, from a friend of a friend and ended up sleeping in her bed while she slept on the couch. We met up with some friends that were in Rio for Carneval, and had a lot of fun. We all went to visit the famous Cristo statue, looking over all of Rio. Also, took the air taxis up to Sugarloaf mountain. It was super hot in Rio! We visited the Botanical Garden......lush, green and so pretty. It was a good time....


Manaus was named after the indigenous tribe, Manaós, which once lived here long ago. In the local language, the word means Mother of God. I can see why......the natural beauty of this place would make anyone feel as if they were at the source, in the hands of a greater power.

Recently we visited some cachoeiras (waterfalls) with Valesca and Hugo.....
They were so peaceful and the water was ice cold! It was really refreshing and it felt so good to just soak and enjoy the chilliness. Also, went to a few shows to check out the Teatro Amazonas more in depth. Beautiful violins serenated us as we soaked it all in. We did a little tour.......The theater is one of the nicest, other then those in Buenos Aires, Milan and Paris. It is very fancy inside with marble and the works. The history of the Theater and this area of Amazonas is pretty interesting. Most of the decorations were brought from Italy, France and Portugal. There were a bunch of old paintings inside, depicting the romantacism of the Amazon during this era.

Wonderful Brasil....a beautiful country with so much to see.

P.S. For more photos, click 'next'.

TCHAU!!!

Lil

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Photos

Cristo
Rio de Janeiro

Copacabana, Rio
Relaxing

VW bus full of bananas!
load em'up

pink flower
Santos, Sao Paulo

natural park
Waterfall park outside Presidente Figueredo

Coconuts
Our friend gave us some coconuts from his tree!!! yessssssss

creek
Waterfall park outside Presidente Figueredo

cachoeira: waterfall
outskirts of Presidente Figueiredo

Swimming around
ice cold water

Amazonas, Brazil from space
Photo and caption thanks to:
Earth Sciences and Image Analysis, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 8 May 2003. "Earth from Space - Image Information." http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/EFS/photoinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS61C-33-84.

tree flower
this flower smelled sooo good, like bubblegum mixed with fruit

Amazon art
painted on a garden gate

waterfall
cuidado: careful!

mural
mural on the ceiling of one of the rooms of the Teatro Amazonas, beautiful art from 1896.

wall painting
banks of the Amazon, reflection

Comments

[melissa s]

Hey!
omg, its all so beautiful, thankyou for providing these wonderful photographs. miss you! laters!