Brazil Trip 2004
These are pictures from the Brazil Events
2004 trip to Rio de Janeiro.
Mestre China runs the trip every year, which includes workshops,
sight-seeing and Batizado.
Click on a pic to enlarge
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View of Rio from Santa Teresa, including a
favela
(shantytown) and Pão de azucar (sugarloaf mountain). |
Looking up at the 2nd mountain of sugarloaf
and the cable car to get there. |
The view of Rio de Janeiro city from the
cable car. |
Barbaro, Rapida, Gogo, Passarinho &
Futa
on the beach at Niterói. In the background: Sugarloaf,
Corcovado, Art Centre. |
Rapida, Barbaro, Futa, Gogo, Bombeiro &
Piupiu at Copacabana. |
Futa enjoying an ice cold Skol (beer) at
Copacabana. |
 One
of the most famous symbols of Rio de Janeiro, that can
be seen from practically everywhere in the city, is the statue of
Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) on Corcovado mountain. It was so
big, I had to take two photos to get the whole figure. It is
spectacular and beautiful.
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 Piupiu
& Futa wearing their best gear outside "El Guapo
Loco" in Buzios, outside of Rio
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 Bombeiro
& Piupiu relaxing at the resort in
Macaé, a few hours drive from Rio City.
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Mestre Bocka (Angonal), Mestre
Preguiça (Iê Capoeira; behind Mestre Bocka), Mestre China,
Mestre Capa (Iê Capoeira), ? & Mestre Moreno (Angonal) after
the Batizado.
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Mestre China with Mestre Capa & his
wife, Contra-Mestre Fabricia.
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Mestre China, Mestre Claudio - master
atabaque
maker, & Mestre Malandrinho.
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Back: Bombeiro, Rapadura,
Mestre
Capa, Piupiu, Gogo-de-Ouro, Barbaro, Monitor
Futa
Front: Contra-Mestre Fabricia, Passarinho, Rapida, Alexia, Mestre
Preguiça
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Mestre Bocka (Grupo de Capoeira Angonal)
teaching children at his Academy in São Goncalo. |
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