SHOPPING IN BRAZILIAN PRISON

Vapors can be made in former prison cells, as they did so the city authorities Resifea, the third largest city of Brazil

Brazil is not only Rio de Janeiro. After five days of sailing the Atlantic, Resife was the first port of Brazil. And the capital of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil, almost četvoromilionski city. "Venice of Brazil". Six kilometers from the center of the picturesque Olinda. The city as a colorful nest, on a hill, offering a view of the Atlantic. Under the protection of UNESCO. City Museum, narrow winding streets, with a Benedictine monastery from the 16th century cathedral, squares, houses and homes that scream of color, carvings and pottery craftsmen working on the streets, a city famous carnivals who like more than the one in Rio. He did not say, commercialized. Nowhere people other than tourists, the evening's saying a lot livelier in restaurants.

Jobs as water, prior to hard ground. Guide, cute Brazilian, from upeklog sun protects the umbrella-umbrellas, cheerful rainbow colors LGB population. Those funny umbrellas, as for children, has only Olinda. It is their TREJD mark. Olinda ("Oh, how beautiful," translated in Serbian) was the capital, is now a museum-mecca for tourists, holidaygame carnival.

Resife metropolis. Unusual. "Resife" in Portuguese means "reef". You kilometers of coral reefs stretch over a hundred and fifty meters from the coast and beaches of sand. Protect the coastline from waves. But not from the shark! Since a decade ago, so they have increased the banned surfing and any sport outside reefs. For every hundred meters large table with a picture of sharks and a warning. It is not pleasant either to walk along the coast, under the palm trees with a view of sharks, even on billboards. Just creepy. However, the beach has a romantic name Praia his de boa vijagena, which means "Beach of the beautiful journey." The richest are right there raised villas and modern buildings with luxury apartments. Fancy restaurants and crazy nightlife. More hot, and the air. Never below 27 degrees. Thus, all year round. Whole year and some celebrated, carnivals, processions, music and merriment. Mix afrozvuka and samba. The poor pushed aside with Boa vijagene, even though we come out of the bus, almost stepped on a man-dog! A human being, on all fours to drag on the pavement. The beggar, or - God's man?

City won the shores of two rivers, the staccato sound, Kapibaribe and Beberibe. Water bridging the romantic bridges, more like those in St. Petersburg than in Venice.

We go to the most bizarre place: Kasa de culture. The "Culture House" is - a former jail! Along the streets, in the parks, numerous monuments to victims of centuries old oppression and torture. Resifljani are rebellious spirit. There is a cradle of a professional army of Brazil! Rebels and soldiers, as well as artists. Numerous workshops ceramics, carving, painting, handicrafts. The most famous artist Francisco Brenand, and so many anonymous potters and widely famous carvers. Passion for life. Eros and Thanatos. Frogs or turtles, clay, majolica and wood, all inspired by eros, sensuality.

The prison is in the center of the old town. Built for more than a century. We pass by watchtowers and long walls. No jail is not the same, though - prison, jail. One of Alcatraz keeps the memory of its famous residents, figures like Al Kaponea, the local are unknown. Both are attractions for tourists, one in the Bay of San Francisco's more, the global attraction. About Alcatraz is full of Pacific sharks, about this, in Resifeu - vast park. The escape was almost impossible. Long corridors with cells, grids, concrete and metal on all sides.

Since 1976, the prison has changed his purpose. In his cells are now boutiques. Above the entrance to every authentic tiles with numbers of cells. In them, their works and handicrafts sale craftsmen and artists. However, no joy of shopping. It's kind of sickening. Hovering spirit of those sufferer. Ve-will is authentic, detention, Memli along the corridor with walls painted grilles ... murals, apparently a later date. Buying hand-painted cup of coffee. Instead of Brazilian reais, giving $ 20. Can. Brings back your change in dollars, from deep hidden pockets. Because it is forbidden.

Resife has a modern shopping mall, the second largest in Brazil. However, no city in the world, no shopping center - the former prison. Money is a miracle !!!

RIO DE JANEIRO - SEVERAL FREE SECRETS

Sumptuous, dark, passionate, fast and full of secrets, Rio de Janeiro is undoubtedly one of the most exciting cities of the world. Here are some advices on how to meet him, not wasting a lot of money.

Pogled sa vrha Tižuke (Beta/AP)

The most beautiful and least expensive adventure treat a national park Tižuka (Parque Nacional da Tijuca). For more than ten thousand square meters, spread urban lung, a piece of paradise cut with numerous trails suitable in walking. Disconnect one day to enjoy this nature reserve, climb to the top of one of the surrounding hills and enjoy the magical sunset. Then you will realize why they call Rio marvelous city (Cidade Maravilhosa).

Praia Vermelha (Beta/AP)

The most famous beach in Rio is famous Ipanema, but that does not mean that we should sunny hours you spend on it exclusively. Embark on the adventure of discovering the less popular gems of sand as beach Arpoador or "Praia Vermelha" so-called red beach.

Parque Lage (Beta/AP)

One of the main attractions of this Brazilian metropolis is the city's botanical garden. However, equally sumptuous and park "Parque Lage" in which you can enter for free. You will be amazed with its Taming the wild, numerous wooden bridges and vegetation on which they can envy him numerous national parks and reserves around the world.

Pedra do Sal (Beta/AP)

Samba in Rio always go hand in hand, so do not miss the opportunity to enjoy the infectious rhythms. There is no need to set aside money for special teams when great fun, if not the best, can be found on the streets. Visit the Square "Pedra do Sal" and let the seething rhythms. At the said place often are young people who want music and dance. There are also many instructors from surrounding schools of samba and very often you can get a free classes for beginners.

FAVELA - A New Gastronomic Heart of Rio

Favela in Rio de Janeiro in the focus of the public, but this time not because of poverty or crime, excellent gastronomy.

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Just a few years ago it was unthinkable that the favela open bar. However, they now "popping up" all over the place.
What has changed this region famed Rio's five-year plan "pacification" which aims to create a more stable and safe, environment before the World Cup in soccer scheduled for next year and the Olympics 2016th
Favela now attracting a multitude of foreign visitors, almost as much as the famous statue of Christ the Savior.
Besides the "exotic" aura, this unusual way of life, tourists are drawn to the gastronomy of these settlements.

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So Rio issued and guide in Portuguese language called "Gastronomic Guide to Rio's favelas" in which he presented variety.

"Food is the perfect weapon to combat prejudice," says the editor of the guide Serđo Bloh.

"For people who care about the security at these places, the food is excellent excuse to finally visit favelas".

Bloh with three researchers visited 97 shops in 11 favelas and examination of their appearance, the food they serve, service and prices.

Unlike the authors of the famous Michelin guide, the team met with a very unusual situations.

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"We went to the place where the food was excellent, but it was an unpleasant smell from a nearby landfill seemed inedible," says Bloh for Restaurante 48 in Tabaharas favela center situated close to Copacabana.

"We used to have problems with odors from drains, because many favelas have open septic tank."

Despite such problems, most favela offers wonderful views of the ocean and exclusive resorts.

Twenty-two restaurants in the barracks matured in the guide.

Among them are restaurants serving the famous Brazilian beefsteaks and soup of beans and meat (feijoada) and by specialties such as pizza and sushi.

Guide also presents a hot dog stalls and sellers empanada "loaders".

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Overlooking the blue Atlantic Bar Lacubaco in Vidigal favela could that be achieved by many well-known restaurants in Rio.

In the city in which the martini can cost up to $ 35 a meal for two to 200, Lacubaco offers entrees for only five to seven U.S. dollars per person.

Owner Fabio Freire says his status favela allows to keep prices low, despite a great location.

"I'm buying meat from the same suppliers as 'restaurants asphalt,'" says the 38-year-old.

"But I do not pay electricity, gas, property taxes, so that at the same time saving and my guests."

Otherwise, people in the slums are mostly illegally connected to the power grid.

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Lacubaco is located on the main street Vidigala, but some of the restaurants that were places in the new guide are a bit farther.

They can be reached only by stairs, and the owners say that because they have the most problems.

To reach the D & C Lanches the complex to the Alemao favela, you have to go by tram to the cable car which has become an attraction.

Rio's O Globo newspaper recently published a story on how to lift the Alemao now has more users on weekends, but cable car that drives tourists to the famous Sugar Loaf.

D & C Lanches actually stand next to whom you can sit on plastic chairs on the sidewalk.

Dimas de Lemos, his wife, three children and a host of relatives that serve juice Asai berry that are full of vitamins and antioxidants.

"Before we came only people in the neighborhood," said the 37-year-old. "Now our guests are only 60 percent locals and 40 percent of the people 'outside', including many foreigners."

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Americans, Germans, Japanese and British were among najbrojnimim tourists who go to favelas.

De Lemosov most important foreign guest so far was Britain's Prince Harry, who last year visited the village of Rio.

"Foreigners are open and curious, but our people with asphalt that have prejudices," says editor Bloh.

"Maybe it's because foreigners are not for decades been exposed to frightening news about violence in the favelas, so come with an open heart."

He says he hears from šponekad Karioka (the word used by the inhabitants of the better parts of Rio quoted) that they want to try a traditional soup of shrimp known as vatapa with Barraca das Baianas stand in Rosina favela, but "they want me to guarantee that they would not be happen. "

"Of course I think it will be safe, but who can give such a guarantee anywhere in the world?" Says Bloh.

Security is still the subject of the pacified favelas. Several public schools from the complex de Alemaoa closed recently due to the pressures of the gang enraged because he killed one of its members.

For many, however, it is not a problem, judging by the crowds of visitors, young and old, eager to taste the specialties of favelas.

TAJ MAHAL

It is said that the Shah had cut his hands all the major players on the construction of the temple, so they could not build a similar or Leps buildings. Closer to the truth is the version that it was an echo of similar stories that accompany large buildings, and that the Shah only had a contract with them not to repeat the offense.

The poetic legend that accompanies the words Rabindranta Tagore that "Taj Mahal tear on the cheek of time", says that every year during the rainy season at the mausoleum falls just a single drop of rain.

 
Taj Mahal is considered the finest specimen of the Mughal architecture, a style that carries elements of Islamic, Indian and Persian culture and tradition. There you can find elements of famous Timuridskih and Mughal buildings - Gur-e Amir (the tomb of Timur, the originator of the dynasty can, buried in Samarkand), Humajunovog tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulahovog grave, commonly referred to as the baby-Taj and Masdžid Mosque - the largest mosque in Delhi. The Taj is the first Mughal temple built of white marble decorated with semi-precious stones, which Mughal architecture on a higher level.

The complex of buildings within the Taj Mahal consists of five main elements: Darvaza (main gate), BAIC (garden), masjid (mosque), Nakarhana (holiday house) and Rauza (main mausoleum). The complex is surrounded on three sides by high walls built of red brick, while the parties to the Yamuna allowed visitors to enjoy the scenery.

The tomb of Mumtaz Mahal is located in the central building, in a simple and not overly decorated memljivoj crypt beneath the floor Rauza. On it was written twenty-nine names Allah`s. Next to it is the tomb of Shah Džahana, the same shape just a little bigger. This is the only case in which the Taj stands out from perfect symmetry. The tomb of Shah Džahana is embedded pen box, which is characteristic of a male ruler. The inscription on it says: "He's gone from this world into eternity reveals the twenty-seventh night of the month Radžaba 1076 year of the Hegira." Copies of these graves can be seen above - that's what you see when you enter the mausoleum. Lace fence around the graves was made to order Šahovog son Aurungzeba almost translucent marble and is unsurpassed in its beauty.

Rauza is an irregular octagon, the length of some 55 meters on the longer sides. The central dome is 35 meters high. It was covered with gold, but it was replaced by a gold-plated bronze early 19th century. Inside is decorated with a sun motif. On the four sides are smaller domes, the same shape as the one central.

Forty meters high minarets Rauza frame on all four sides. Constructed as com- pletely functional - to allow the muezzin that with them calling to prayer. They are set slightly away from Rauza, so as not to accidentally turned on them, as often happened tall buildings of the time.

Islam preaches ban shows a man in the art, and the Taj can see only records calligraphy, abstract arabesque motifs of flowers and plants. They are everywhere quotes from the Koran. Above the entrance is the inscription "Honey, rest in art. Return to the Lord in peace and may He be at peace with you." Interestingly, as labels set up higher, they are written increasing font size, so that the impression is that all of the same size, wherever they are.

Special attention was paid to acoustics. From the moment you make a sound until its complete disappearance of whole needs 28 seconds. So tell him who pronounces the prayer from the Koran for the soul Mumtaz Mahal repeated many times and last longer.

Rauza was built so that it can be entered on all four sides, but is now open only to enter the south entrance, overlooking the garden. The look through is also a pearl of beauty and art. Artisanal work that era was so subtle that even the decorative elements of 3 centimeters containing more than 50 decorative jewels. Letters verses from the Koran on the arches look the same size, regardless of the height at which they are located. The technique used for interior decoration known as pietra dura. Boils down to tapping into hard stones are softer due to the decorative impression.

Taj Mahal looks different depending on the time of day and season. The color of the sky is reflected in the white marble, while the sun's rays it added an element of eternity. Particularly striking in the days of the full moon. Sometimes, in the foggy morning, if viewed from the fortress of Agra, it seems as if the castle floating on a carpet of clouds.

The rectangular base of the Taj Mahal is a symbol of different parties with whom we see a beautiful woman. The main entrance is like a veil to a woman's face, which should be very gently and slowly rise up on their wedding night. In the moonlight, the Taj shines when semiprecious stones imbedded into the white marble mausoleum catch the main glow of moonlight. The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky evening and golden when the moon shines. These changes, as they say, depict the different moods female.

Quote from the book "Questions and Answers", Vikas Svarupa

Garden around the Taj Mahal is also a kind of architectural and architectural achievement. Intersected a rainbow fountain that leads to the entrance and which is surrounded by cypress trees that would direct the attention of visitors to the mausoleum, which is reflected in it and thus multiplies its beauty. Wherever standing in the garden, the Taj can be clearly seen. Ispresecenama the paths and fountains. It is inspired by Persian gardens, and symbolizes the four rivers Dženeta (heaven). It is rich in vegetation, which the British Poseka during his reign and edit on the model of the London lawns.

Great Gate (džarvaza) divided secular bazaar and caravanserai of spiritual tranquility and sublimity mauzolja. It was made ​​of silver, and now boasts a mosaic of marble slabs, with natpissima from the Koran among which stands out the call "pure in heart" to enter the "heavenly garden".

Sam Shah Džahan described his work with the words:

If fault here seek shelter

As well as those who were forgiven and being freed from sin

If sinner went to this palace

All sins that has been done will be forgiven;

I look at this court recognizes the sadness

And the sun and the moon wipe their tears from her eyes

In this world is composed of buildings

To display the glory of the Creator

British poet Sir Edwin Arnold, said that "the Taj is not an architectural work such as other buildings, but the passion of love one ruler forged out of solid rock."

Even during the construction of the Taj Mahal was growing tension at the court of Shah Džahana caused by his neglect of regal prerogatives, the huge cost of construction, which even threatened the financial stability of the empire and the struggle for supremacy among the heirs. Respecting the desire of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah did not like was expected slew their children, which has led to the court intrigues and preganjanjima. Everything was interrupted by his son Aurangzeb who killed two brothers and a large number of their children. His father was imprisoned in the fortress of Agra, where the next nine years with jasmine tower just unable to observe the Taj Mahal in the distance. Thus, Shah failed to fulfill the last wish of his beloved wife to her every year to the tomb.

Sled historical events has always shared the Taj Mahal. The temple is falling apart, and parts of buildings, ornaments and valuables pulled at sundry thieves, including British colonists who were in the mid 19th century, took off the precious stones from the walls. In the late 19th century, Lord Krzon ordered the restoration, which was completed in 1908.

During World War II embankments were raised about the Taj for a possible attack from the air at first the Germans and then the Japanese. The same was done during the wars between India and Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, due to the threat of guided missiles.

Today, the Taj Mahal they marched between 2 and 4 million tourists a year. Since Mumtaz died in childbirth, is considered martyr, and her grave is visited by numerous pilgrims.

The complex is open to visit during the day and during the full moon and two days before and after, as well as some nocturnal visit, except for Friday and Ramadan. Because of secure reasons, we can enter only 5 items: water in transparent bottles, small video camera, camera, cell phone and small ladies handbags. The security guards, including a dressing room for excess stuff, works very well.

For a tour of the Taj to take time to be alone and slowly enjoy every detail of its beauty. The difference between what you see on postcards or from a distance, and the scene that breaks before your eyes when you pass Darvaza is immeasurable. It can not be simply described the impression that the Taj Mahal leaves.

The Indian government is investing huge efforts to preserve the Taj Mahal. Particular danger today represent acid rain. Because of possible damage (the Taj could easily be your belještavu white paint replaced the yellow patinastom), dislocated a nearby oil refinery and prohibited traffic in the area of about 10 square kilometers, and from the parking lot to the Taj comes on foot, rickshaw ljudki to drive cars or to golf. They say that recently used a special preparation that Indian women used since ancient times for bleaching face to most of the specific color of marble.

PONDISHERI - MIRACLE IN INDIA

Pondisheri - a coastal town in Tamil Nadu, three hours away from CHENAJ, became famous because it served as the setting for the book and film "rhymes life."

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Just a day after the film was directed by Ang Lee picked up four Oscars, local authorities Pondišerija decided to develop all 18 sites in the city where the movie was filmed in a real tourist attraction.

Although there are no official data on how many tourists visit every this city, to the effect that the growth is inevitable.

Pondišeri is a true rarity - a French enclave on the Indian coast.

Although the French have gone for more than half a century, "Le Pondi" still has a specific identity that is a function of three different world.

 
France's colonial enclaves

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Many scenes were filmed in Pondišeriju include affecting coastal colonial district where elegant facades and the avenue mainly belonging to the French who have one foot in India and another in France.

Here you will instead hear the engine sound and the song of birds able to visit of wonderful little restaurants and unusual boutiques.

The most famous former villas, hotels have become L'Orient, Villa Helena Hotel du Parc.

Botanical garden, where the singing of the parents in the film had a zoo, are also gadgets French.

Here you can see the giant African mahogany, high intertwined branches of the sacred fig tree and fire džakarande.

Tamil

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The colonial district is divided channel that is more draining than continuous flow. As soon as you cross it you will feel that life is accelerating, especially along the "main artery" of the city Rue Jawagarlal Nehru.
The streets are narrow, and each of the terraces colorful houses you can see their residents to enjoy the conversation.
Occasionally you may see herds of goats as a reminder that the village is very close. One less the happy among them were referred to the Grand Bazaar (Grand Bazaar) where selling fruit, fish and flowers and where he filmed himself Pi, that follows the girl of his dreams.
Zone Meditation

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The third and last part Pondišerija its northern part, which preserves the spirituality of its citizens.

Ashram of Auroville (City of Dawn) dating back to the French colonization when it was established as a place where it is possible to contemplate themselves as part of the cosmos.

There is also a multinational "experimental municipality" where you can see a large number of foreigners on motorbikes, since cars are not allowed to go this way.

There are about 300 people, but many are visiting him, and sometimes even up to 12,000 visitors a day. However, you will have the feeling that here the government crowd, since the Auroville spacious and includes as many as 14 farms.

All who come to visit a center for meditation of whom the most famous Matrimandir, temple of the mother, the great golden globe that looks like it's from another planet. Here you can enter, if you make a commitment that you will spend there at least a few days.