From England to Brazil and back! Fantastic aerial photos! Cities and nature!

Here are some photos with comments by Gersonbias, a brazilian forumer (@SSC) from Porto Alegre who lives in London, and visits Porto Alegre 2-3 times a year.

England to Brazil (London, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, then a second flight from Rio to Florianópolis and then Porto Alegre)


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"The flight from London started early so it was dark and I couldnt take good pics. Arriving in Brasil it was already daytime.


I love to stay in the airplane window looking outside hours and hours like a child. Sometimes I do this even in night flights over the sea





I hope you enjoy the trip!!



1- The city of Campinas, in São Paulo state, a bit before arriving at Guarulhos airport (main airporto of São Paulo city)



2- Guarulhos airport



3- Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro state)



4- Some of Brazil nuclear powerplants



5- Galeão International airport at Rio de Janeiro



6- Governor Island, at Guanabara Bay (part of Rio Municipality, its in this island that the Int. Airport is located)



7- Paqueta Island.....Guanabara Bay.......airport at right, city of Niterói at left



8-Paqueta RJ



9-Maracanã Stadium (those buildings around it are mostly 10-12 floors, some are 20 floors high)



10- End of Leblon neighborhood, and Rocinha shantytown looming over it, in the slope of the mountain



11- Pepino beach and Barra da Lagoa



12-Barra da Lagoa-RJ



13- North of Santa Catarina island (Florianópolis municipality occupies the whole island)....with Canasvieiras beach at left and Ingleses (English) beach at right



14- Florianopolis



15- Florianopolis



16- Florianopolis



17- Serra do Rio do Rastro road -SC.....hard to see from this aerial pic, but its an incredibly curved road that goes down the mountains


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(Note from Trantor: here is a pic of this road:


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18- General Motors factory at the city of Gravataí, metro area of Porto Alegre



19-North area of Porto Alegre and FIERGS complex



20- FIERGS at left and city of Cachoeirinha at background



21-Arriving in the airport Salgado Filho - Porto Alegre.........




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AND NOW, THE FLIGHT BACK, WITH INCREDIBLE AERIAL VIEWS OF SÃO PAULO AND LONDON
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AERIALS: FLIGHT FLORIANÃ"POLIS - SÃO PAULO - LONDON






fasten the seatbelts, and good trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!


1- I was in Camboriu and had to go to Florianópolis to get the flight

View near Itaguacu Shopping Mall in the continent.



2-Crossing the continent to the island



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4-Florianópolis airport (accidentaly was shot B&W)



5- Airport view



6- South part of the island - Campeche beach



7-South of the island



8-Campeche island



9-Megalopolis..........São Paulo



10-SP



11-SP



12-SP



13-SP



14- road nearSP



15- Guarulhos airport.....where I had to wait 6 hours due to an international flight delay



16-Madeira Island- middle of the atlantic



17a_Arriving at the english shores




17-LONDON--------Docklands and Dome



18-LONDON--------City and Tower Bridge



19-LONDON--------general view of Central area



20- LONDON---------Green Park, St James's park and Buckingham Palace



21-LONDON----- Hyde Park and Chelsea (u can see the stadium at the bottom left of the pic)



22- LONDON----------Earls Crt and Exhibition centre



23-LONDON--------Kew Gardens



24-LONDON- Heathrow airport- Terminal 5
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