{"id":579,"date":"2015-07-03T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:25:30","slug":"rio-de-janeiro-corcovado-christo-redentor-and-pau-de-acucar-sugar-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Rio de Janeiro: Corcovado (Christo Redentor) and Pau de Acucar (Sugar Loaf)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Each time I visit Rio de Janeiro I vow to avoid the trip up the Corcovado to Cristo Redentor (the enormous Christ the Redeemer statue that is an icon of Rio).\u00a0 But here we are again.\n

To conclude the Study Abroad trip the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students spent a day and a half in Rio de Janeiro, touring and preparing for the flight from Rio through Atlanta to Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Another obligatory stop in Rio is the cable gondola to the top of Sugar Loaf.\u00a0 It goes in two stages, from a lower (but still high) promontory to the Sugar Loaf itself.\u00a0 This trip was at the end of a chilly winter day, in time for the sunset and early darkness from the top.<\/p>\n

The following day was a quieter, and warmer one, with the temperatures near 70 degrees (Rio de Janeiro winter but much like the Milwaukee summer) \u2014 with a ride on the municipal subway and long walk on the Copacabana.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_8629_DxO\" — Cristo Redentor on the peak of Corcovado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View on a cloudy winter day from the Corcovado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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UW-Milwaukee students at Cristo Redentor, the day before traveling home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View from the Corcovado to the city of Rio de Janeiro, with the Sugar Loaf (Pao de Acucar) in the upper left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sugar Loaf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The gondola docked at the base station, Swiss-made they say. A relief since the antique contraption of two decades ago has been museumed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gondola ride to the first station on the way to Pao de Acucar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rio from the Sugar loaf, early evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view of Rio from the Sugar Loaf. The Corcovado with Cristo Redentor is the faint, glowing spot in the upper right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Each time I visit Rio de Janeiro I vow to avoid the trip up the Corcovado to Cristo Redentor (the enormous Christ the Redeemer statue that is an icon of Rio).\u00a0 But here we are again. To conclude the Study Abroad trip the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students spent a day and a half in Rio … Continue reading Rio de Janeiro: Corcovado (Christo Redentor) and Pau de Acucar (Sugar Loaf)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uwmmilwaukee-study-abroad-pre-2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}