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| Buenos Aires Santa Fe Corrientes Asuncion Iguazú Falls Iguaçu Falls Itaipu Curitiba Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro |
Buenos Aires
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| Columbus Statue |
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| Casa Rosada plus San Martin |
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| 25 Mayo Obelisk |
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| San Martin at Plazo de Mayo |
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| San Martin's Tomb |
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| San Martin's Tomb Honour Guard |
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| San Martin and Retinue Plaza San Martin |
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| Cafe Havana A sugar-overdose: latte chocolate blanco. |
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| 70 miles NW of B.A. |
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| 75 miles NW of B.A. |
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| 31 miles NW of Rosario |
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| 15 miles SW of Santa Fe |
Santa Fe
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| Main Plaza |
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| Santa Fe Cathedral |
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| San Martin points the way |
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| Convent de San Francisco (1680) |
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| Convent de San Francisco (1680) |
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| 22 miles North of Santa Fe |
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| 76 miles North of Santa Fe |
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| 80 miles North of Santa Fe |
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| 151 miles SW of Corrientes |
Corrientes
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| The mighty, and muddy, Rio Parana |
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| Bridge over the Parana |
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| San Martin in Corrientes |
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| Rio Parana at dusk |
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| 16 miles NW of Corrientes |
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| 18 miles NW of Corrientes |
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| 19 miles SW of Asuncion |
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| 7 miles North of Asuncion |
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| Rio Paraguay: 9 miles NE of Asuncion |
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| 9 miles NE of Asuncion |
Asuncion
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| Artigas, Plaza Uruguay (Uruguayan national hero.) |
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| Homeless (?) camp in Plaza Urugua |
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| National Pantheon |
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| Tombs of Generals and the Unknown Soldier |
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| Pantheon Dome |
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| Asuncion Cathedral |
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| Cabildo Museum |
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| Marshal Lopez |
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| National Legislature |
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| Palacio Lopez |
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| The mighty Rio Paraguay |
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| Old Concrete |
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| Aging buildings. |
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| La Encarnacion church |
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| Casa de la Independencia "Independence House" Museum |
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| 47 miles East of Asuncion |
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| 55 miles East of Asuncion |
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| Horses, 65 miles East of Asuncion |
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| 79 miles West of Foz do Iguacu |
Iguazú Falls
From the Argentinian side.
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Iguaçu Falls
From the Brazilian side.
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| Welcoming committee |
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| View to Argentina |
Itaipu
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| Itaipu turbine model Note spiral pipe driving turbine. |
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| Itaipu Binacional. Spillway. |
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| Spillway |
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| Dam wall |
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| Itaipu Note tour bus halfway across. |
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| Downriver |
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| Lake Itaipu |
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| Spillway from its top. |
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| Input pipes |
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| Into the beast. |
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| Internal shaft Looking down to bedrock |
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| Status display |
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| The bi-national control room. With international border down the middle. |
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| The Turbine Hall |
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| Scotsman beside 700 MW turbine |
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| 47 miles NE of Foz do Iguacu |
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| 102 miles East of Foz do Iguacu |
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| 123 miles East of Foz do Iguacu |
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| 160 miles West of Curitiba |
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| 125 miles West of Curitiba |
Curitiba
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| Curitiba Cathedral |
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| 26 miles NE of Curitiba |
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| 35 miles NE of Curitiba |
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| 57 miles NE of Curitiba |
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| 75 miles SW of Sao Paulo |
Sao Paulo
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| Edificio Copan |
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| Circolo Italiano |
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| Banespa Tower |
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| View from Banespa Tower |
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| View from Banespa Tower |
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| 84 miles NE of Sao Paulo |
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| 107 miles West of Rio de Janeiro |
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| 42 miles West of Rio de Janeiro |
Rio de Janeiro
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| Cloudy Sugarloaf |
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| "Christ the Redeemer" |
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| Park on funicular. |
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| Sugarloaf from the midpoint cablecar station |
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| Sugarloaf cablecar |
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| Hazy view from Sugarloaf |
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| Copacabana beach, from Sugarloaf |
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| Cloudy "Christ the Redeemer" from SugarLoaf |
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| Joao VI |
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| Security for Obama's visit |
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| Obama's venue |
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| Media and security circus |
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| Marxist-Leninst Party. All twelve of them. |
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| Don Pedro II (National History Museum) |
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| Dom Pedro II |
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| Rio de Janeiro Cathedral |
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| Cathedral entrance |
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| Cathedral interior |
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| Igrejia de N.S. Candelarai church Founded by a ship-wrecked captain |
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| Mostaeiro de Sao Bento (1641) |
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| Mostaeiro de Sao Bento: interior |
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| Mostaeiro de Sao Bento: interior |