with the climax of the Carnival season, the weekend before 

 Ash Wednesday (see Cover). The Bahian Carnival over- 

 flows with joyous, uninhibited dance, exciting music, fan- 

 tastic costumes and open-handed friendliness. The un- 

 sophisticated mood and the lack of out-of-town visitors 

 contrasts with Rio's crowded Carnival. 



Besides exciting hours mingling with Carnival crowds, 

 you enjoy sunny afternoons on the two principal beaches. 

 You also explore the baroque splendor of some of the his- 

 toric churches, taking particular pleasure in the 16th cen- 

 tury art in Sao Francisco and Carmo. In this, the royal 

 capital of Brazil for 214 years, you stay at the elegantly 

 modern Hotel da Bahia. 



Espirito Santo 



Brazil's greatest naturalist. Dr. Augusto Ruschi, is 

 famous for his discoveries about hummingbirds. You fly 

 from Bahia south to Espirito Santo State to visit this scien- 

 tist at his estate — Brazil's largest living museum. Your 

 plane arrives in the state capital, Vitoria, on the Atlantic 

 coast, and you are driven inland through palm-dominated 

 jungles and rivers, up rugged mountains and past water- 

 falls where velvet-purple Cleistes orchids, tree ferns and 

 huge, brown-veined white Dutchmen's pipe flowers grow 

 in profusion. During roadside stops, your tour botanist, 

 Phil Clark, and tour zoologist. Dr. Austin Rand, Field Mu- 

 seum Chief Curator of Zoology, point out interesting plants 

 and birds and answer your questions. 



You arrive in time for dinner at the Espirito Santo Agri- 

 cultural College where you spend the next two nights, 

 February 18 and 19. On the first evening. Dr. Ruschi 

 shows you slides and discusses his work with humming- 

 birds. You visit him at his estate at Santa Teresa the fol- 

 lowing day, seeing thousands of hummingbirds of 28 spe- 

 cies flying freely in colorful gardens and woodlands near 

 his house and museum buildings. In addition to the native 

 species, dozens of others from places throughout the hemi- 

 sphere are kept in large, enclosed garden areas. 



Dr. Ruschi's museum stresses the natural history of 

 Espirito Santo. The state has an impressive botanical- 

 zoological representation, including 14 species of mon- 

 keys, 35 hummingbirds, 45 bats (of which Dr. Ruschi has 

 discovered five), and 22,000 species of plants, including 

 400 orchids and about the same number of bromeliads, 

 families in which Ruschi has also done important work. 



Rio de Janeiro 



Rio, considered by many to be the world's most beau- 

 tiful city, has its own special magic. Its natural setting is 

 stunning: the great azure bay with its crescent of white 

 sand and leaning palms and green, gently sloping Sugar- 

 loaf and Corcovado mountains looming alongside it. The 

 magic of Rio's landscape is matched by its human magic, 

 warm, easy-going people who bring spirited friendliness 

 to the mosaiced promenades, the broad city streets and 

 Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. 



You spend three days here, beginning February 20, 

 with half the time spent in sight-seeing, the remainder free 

 for shopping or relaxing. You view the bay from the 

 forested summits of Tijuca and Corcovado, where the 

 famous statue of Christ the Redeemer stands, and visit the 

 botanic garden and zoo, and the Raymundo Castro Maya 

 Foundation, where a splendid colonial house, containing 

 a rare collection of early engravings and elegant furnish- 

 ings of the period, is set in a close-clipped formal garden 

 overlooking the bay. Your hotel, the glass and concrete 

 Excelsior, faces Copacabana. 



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Brazilian stops are numbered in the order they mill be visited. 



