Today in Brazil is a national holiday called Triadentes Day. This day celebrates Xavier, whom fought for Brazilian independence and ended up becoming imprisoned and hung as a result.
On today’s agenda we walked the graffiti tour in downtown Rio. This area was created for the sole purpose of the World Cup in 2014. While walking, our tour guide, Rafael, pointed out that the aquarium and many of the buildings around were all built as tourist attractions. The graffiti all had a separate story and were done by different artists.
The government of Rio de Janeiro paid Kobra, a famous artist from Saõ Paulo, to create a mural. In this mural, it involves a picture of a real person from every continent.
From here, we went to lunch to a restaurant called Cais Gourmet where we had Feijoada. This dish includes pork, Black beans, and rice and is a famous meal to eat in Brazil. It tastes pretty delicious!
After lunch, we made our way to the National Historic Museum. It was created in 1922 and holds artifacts and portraits/pictures from all over Latin America. Before the museum was built, it was a prison for slaves in 1693. We were able to walk around to look at the exhibits and read the descriptions in English. It started from the indigenous and ancient decent all the way up to what the cars and carriages looked like in the 19th and 20th century.
To wrap up the day, we drove back to the hotel,saying goodbye to our guide for the night.
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