the largest mural or graphic art in the world so we've been seeing these all over
so we had to try them i think this is the most beautiful library
i've ever seen in the world we're almost to escalaria celeron
they use tiles from all over the world if you eat the yellow
broth part uncooked then it's actually poisonous
good morning from rio de janeiro so today we're meeting up with a friend a friend who's brazilian
she was a couch surfer of mine when i was living in san francisco and we thought it would be great
to meet up with her so she can kind of show us around teach us a little bit about brazil so
we know some more when we continue our travels should be a fun day we'll see what's in store
so this here is it is the largest mural or graphic art in the world the guy made it here during the
olympics that's when this whole area of rio changed like this you don't see areas like this
much in rio but it's just because of the olympics this whole thing changed but you'll see that there
are five faces up there and they each represent a continent pretty cool it was all done by one guy
he probably had some helpers but one hardest in this whole thing look how huge this thing is
so this face right here represents the south america continent
so this is one of the five faces that they painted along this mural
there you have it largest mural in the world rio de janeiro brazil
so we've been seeing these all over so we had to try them they are made out of
cassava and we haven't tried them yet but they feel like they're little like cups of
like little crisp chips or something and supposedly you eat these while you have a tea
one is salty and one is sweet not sure which is which so we're looking for something to
drink with these but we're excited to try them because we've seen them just all over the place
amanda was just saying that in this area usually they have samba
everybody's outdoors dancing singing all of that and now look at it right now
there's nothing you can tell this would be a really beautiful
amazing spot to hang out have some drink and food looks like a little european area
so we are going to the real cabernet
cabernet portuguese
so this is an old old huge library can't wait to see it
this is the prettiest library i've ever been into
so during normal times before coronavirus people could actually sit at these desks they could pick
out a book and sit and read and take their time so people actually use it as a functional library
i think this is the most beautiful library i've ever seen in the world look how tall the walls are
we're almost to escalaria celeron this is a famous staircase in brazil
it's huge and built out of tiles and it has become one of the most famous
kind of icons of rio so let's go check it out it's right here
so here we are finally the famous staircase of rio while the artist was
making this people would bring him tiles from all over the world we have chicago
sorrento italy positano all of these are italy philadelphia italy again a lot of europe
so the artist's name was celeron and in his studio and sadly in 2013 he was killed and he
was burned to death and i guess they actually had his burned body here for a day or two just laying
out in front of his piece of artwork these stairs we think that normally this place would be packed
with people but because of covid there's probably only 10 to 15. every other video and photos i've
ever seen at this place just have tons of people so we're pretty lucky to be seeing it like this
we actually have chances to see the whole thing without a person on it
it's huge we're gonna walk up to the top and so we can just see how big this really is
now let's walk up the whole thing
so
this was his studio
and it just keeps going up up up up
pretty interesting i can't believe we have this almost to ourselves up here
the brazilian flag they say that right now it's not safe to go past that flag right now
so we are not going to go all the way up but look what i just found chocolate tiles hey it's home
i found the san francisco tile california tiles a bunch of them but we're looking for the minnesota
one for lindsay i think she found it i think amanda found us a minnesota tile for lindsay
is it oh yeah very representative of minnesota you got the loon snowman lake cabin
i can't believe you found it i asked for
help
so many places to take a picture around here
so this is the artist
awesome place awesome experience once again better than we have seen in pictures and videos and all
that it's an amazing place it's a lot bigger than i thought i thought it was just going to be one
small flight like one staircase but it keeps going up and up and up and it's not even just the
stairs that have the tile it's all the surrounding walls have tiles so if you walk through pure tiles
you ready
this is
if you eat this raw it's poisonous the transparent stuff is tapioca
so right now we're at the amazonian food restaurant so they specialize in foods from
the amazon and that's awesome because we don't really know what any of these foods are i mean
we know acai we've had that before but we're getting the best here in rio and then we have uh
and some sort of plant the plant is called jumbo
if you eat the yellow broth part uncooked then it's actually poisonous
what does that taste like it's salty a little tangy
stringy i like that
that makes your tongue tingles right now it's just tingling
yeah this really affects your mouth your tongue it's like you're eating something wrong because
it's really affecting it it's getting tingly and cold the flavor of the scents i'm not
so that's like one of the taste senses like it's not bitter or sweet or salty
it's um and i've never tried anything or i don't think i have natsumami before
so there's the first so this is the crab leg coaching you can actually see the end of
the crab leg right there so you don't want to eat that part all right let's give this a try
this is going to sound weird but it almost tastes like the inside of an egg roll
i don't know why it's better you can see the crab flakes in there the shredded meat
this is for you delightful travelers
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you