This is a beautiful fazenda built in the 1850s. The owner's great grandfather built it and ran it as a farm producing milk and coffee. The owner told us that 100 slaves or so once worked the property.
Here's a view from the "backyard."

This is the kind of foliage that really evokes the classic idea of Brazil for me...


We hiked to a river and met a fisherman here who had just caught a huge fish -- think it's a trout.

The girls became fast friends with Antonio, the son of the fazenda owners. He found a cow's skull on our hike. Yipes.

Maddy found a baby turtle and Paloma made friends with a bunny.
Hi Barbara, great photos!!! What a lovely setting and the girls, of course, are beautiful. I did not realize you guys had actually moved from Orange County to Rio. Seeing that both locations are near the water, I am sure that the culture shock will be minimal... lol We really missed you guys when you left New York and will now miss you even more that you are south of the equator. However, your move now gives us an incentive to get down there at some point. I hope all is well with you and the fam. Best of luck. Mark
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