Summary Beginning of the travel in Rio de Janeiro.First Philippe see the town from a mountain: the beaches, the bays, the famous Sugarloaf Mountain, the statue of Christ the Redeemer.Philippe has decided to take a suburban train and visit the favela of Rocinha: there he meets Peanut, a man who has helped the people of this favela to get electricity and water in their homes.Back to the suburban train he meets a young man who has been inspired by his meetings in train and has become writer.Then Philippe goes to another favela by cable car: women explain him how their life have changed this this new cable car: they spend less time to go to center of Rio o to come back.In the favela Philippe meets women in a candomblé ceremony: these African-Brazilian women communicate with the spirits of their ancestors.The oldest woman was speaking a language coming from Angola because she was communicating with an ancestor of Angola.Then Philippe starts a new train travel in Curitiba: a train which goes through the Atlantic tropical forest.At Paranaguá Philippe goes with a fisherman, they see dolphins and try to catch fishes.Then comes the train travel from Belo Horizonte to Vitoria: a touristic train who goes through mountains , forests and they also can see a great iron ores mine.Philippe meets a couple who has known themselves in his train and now they invited their children to discover the joy of traveling by train.Philipe goes to Ouro Preto where he sees a great celebration of African-Brazilian for their ancestors: there is a nice church which was constructed by a miner and former slave.

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