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What is all this fuzz about Brazil? I'm no expert on this country, but Brazil lives. With rich and wasted people, next to the extremely poor living in the Favelas. Many live on the brink of extinction. Together these facts make this country so colorful. And of course, Rio de Janeiro is a very beautiful city, with the blue ocean, white beaches and green mountains. It is probably one of the most scenic big cities of the world. Dangerous also, with all the crime.

 

View from Corcovado against Sugar Loaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro

 

View from Sugar Loaf Mountain

Rio de Janeiro

 

Cactus (Cereus or pilosocereus?), Rio de Janeiro

A Black Vulture circling in the sky above Sugar Loaf Mountain

 

Rio de Janeiro

NTNU team (Ola, Erlend, Bjørn H., Øyvind, Eiliv, Sindre, Åsa and Pål )

 

Corcovado

Fixing the statue

 

Beach life - Copacabana

Rio de Janeiro

 

View from the hotel room

Skol !

 

Possible a Roadside Hawk

Magnificent Frigatebird

 

Sunrise swim at Copacabana


Did somebody just die?
 

Sofitel, our conference Hotel at Copacabana

Sunrise swim at Copacabana

 

Parque Nacional da Tijuca

Trip to Parque Nacional da Tijuca outside Rio de Janeiro

 

Parque Nacional da Tijuca

Parque Nacional da Tijuca

 

Impatiens? Parque Nacional da Tijuca

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), Parque Nacional da Tijuca

 

Parque Nacional da Tijuca

Parque Nacional da Tijuca

 

Parque Nacional da Tijuca

Mayrink chapel, Parque Nacional da Tijuca

 

Flower, Parque Nacional da Tijuca

Paulistina Metalmark (Synargis paulistina), Parque Nacional da Tijuca

 

Copacabana view from the outdoor breakfast area at Sofitel

South of Rio de Janeiro