More from the botanical gardens

Here are three more pictures.

Rio's botanitcal gardens

Over 200+ years old, and 3.4 million trees, the gardens offer beautiful, shaded walks to fend off nearly 100 degree temperature. Like yesterday, we'll put in two blogs of three pictures each (there's likely a way to go over three, but we haven't figured out how).

It is such a treasure to have the forest and gardens amidst 10 million people. Certainly, a form of environmentalism came early here (although our guide says they continue to have fights between the "energy for progress" people, and the hard core environment types who don't want to build dams, dig for oil, or do anything to create more energy).