More of Ouro Preto

We visited the biggest gold mine in the world, thousand of slaves made this town rich and portugal an empire. We visited Mariana another little town with magnificent building and plaza. We eat in a delicious self service brazilian style. In the afternoon we get to ouro preto and visit the church of Pilar second richest in Brazil...oh the gold! In our perfect house we have also a fire pit...we finish the night with a dinner of grilled sausages. Stay away from brazilian wine, too sweet, stick with caipirinha.

Black Gold (and I don't mean oil)

The house is magnificent, the surrounding also, the little town is a little jewel to be reached to a still unpaved road. The town was built by fugitive slaves. In the afternoon we headed to stroll around Ouro Preto a magnificent colonial town that still kept all the wealth of the gold times!

Tiring but rewarding!

Departure for Ouro Preto, everything would have been fine if the picking up the car rental would have been faster, Matthias would not have touch a freshly painted pole, and there were not two cities named the same at three hours away from each other. The all results of this is we got at Lavras Novas at 2 o clock in the morning where two smiling Brazilians were still waiting for us!

Penguins in Rio

We spent the morning at the beach...and amazing enough we saw 9 penguins migrating to antartica. It was really exciting.. Afternoon stroll until Leblon, very residential a mix of upper east side and Soho on the beach!

Sunset at Sugar Loaf

We start the day with the yellow fever shot, then we decide to have lunch at san teresa, getting there was more difficult than anticipated but we made it and I still enjoy it.  Before sunset we made it to Pao de azucar...what a view, the sunset is spectacular and we would have also enjoy our caipirinha if Oscar did not find appropriate to have ashma attack so we had to rush home.

Soccer at Copacabana

Crowded day at the beach, however the water was fantastic. Afternoon at copacabana to watch the infamous match 4-0 oh no! Dinner a la garota de ipanema to suddendly feel better.

Ipanema Beach

All the charm, the beauty it is famous for and the kids had tons of fun in the waves!