Post Card from Curitiba - Farewell

Curitiba is amazing. Let me count the ways:

Atlantic rain forest vegetation:

     

 

Innovative design:

Good food:

 Barreado de Morretes


 Two in one pizza:  marguerita and banana/chocolate. 

Street art:

Good weather (OK, maybe not always):

 And really fine people. 

Muito obragada. 

Até logo.

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Jeongmoon Choi

Oscar Niemeyer Museum

Bienal Internacional De Curitiba

These strings of light fill a room. You can walk into this space and through it. 

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Parque Tangua

The park, on the northern edge of Curitiba, opened in 1996. It is an old quarry on the banks of the Rio Barigui.

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Capybara - the world's largest rodents, and on my list of odd looking animals.

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I have always loved a good positive/negative stencil.

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The Botanical Gardens of Curitiba

I was very taken with the gardens and was especially pleased to see a fern tree. I had seen fern trees in the forest from the train.  I also spent some time watching the turtles.

I did also observe that for many people, the gardens were a beautiful back drop for selfies and more formally staged photo ops.

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Miscellaneous

 

     

The tail end.

   

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The geometrics.