Our first day in Rio de Janeiro. Our excursion was not until after luch so we walks=ed around a bit in the morning. Our excursion was "Corcovado & Rio Highlights"
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| Sailing through the islands in Guanabara Bay |
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| A lighthouse |
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| A Magnificent Frigatebird flying over |
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| Some of the buildinga of Rio de Jamneiro |
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| The mountain with the cloud across it is Corcovado. This mountain has the statue "Christ the Redeamer" atop it. The statues is one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World |
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| I could make of the statue |
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| Setting up to serve rolls, coffee and juices on the bow for the sailin |
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| It is getting clearer |
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| The Captain watching our progress |
Sugarloaf Mountain
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| A Magnificent Frigatebird flying over |
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| The two |
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| The a buntch |
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| One of the many favelas (slum or shanty-town) found on the hillsides around Rio |
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| On top of Sugarloaf is the top station of a Gondola |
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| A Brown Booby |
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| Many of them diving into the water to catch food |
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| An old fortress across the bay |
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| Another old fortification |
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| The pilot coming out |
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| The airport is near |
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| And Brown Boobys with there shadows |
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| Corcovada had clouded moverr |
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| The new Science Museum |
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| Buildings alongthe waterfront near where we docked |
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| The out pointing end of the science Museum |
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| Whwere we will dock |
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| A Great Egret |
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| Manu Murals on walls of buildings |
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| The Egret flying |
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| The street outside the cruise terminak\l |
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| A bridge across the bay in the haze |
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| Mid morning we went for a walk down the street towards a plaza the was used for the 2016 Olympics |
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| A Rufus Hornero, a species of Ovenbirds |
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| Our ship from the plaza area |
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| The Science Museum which opened in 2016 is now connected toe the plaza. |
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| A Cattle Tyrant |
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| Silk Floss Tree blossoms |
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| Back to the ship |
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| After lunch we left on out ecursion to Corcovado Mountain and up to the to to see the Christ the Redeemer statue |
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| Scenes along the way |
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| It wa extreamly crowded ther |
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| Waiting in line for the electric train up the mounrtain |
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| On the way up. It is a tropical rainforest and is in Tijunca National Park |
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| The electric train unloading |
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| Sugerload Mountain |
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| We could see our ship |
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| There were escalators available for the last part of trhe climb |
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| Waiting for elevators for the main part of the way back down |
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| On the train on the way down |
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| One the way back to the ship |
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| The Cathedral |
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| A sand sculpture on one of the beaches |
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| A large 5* hotel |
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| Many tunnels in Rio |
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| Back at the ship in the late afternoon glow just before sunset. I did not get any pictures of the sunset |
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