[HN Gopher] Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (2018)
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       Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (2018)
        
       Author : walterbell
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2023-01-08 10:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | thanatropism wrote:
       | It's a pretty place, about a 20 minutes ride from my home/office.
       | Why is it on HN at all?
        
         | gattilorenz wrote:
         | My bet is that someone serendipitously found out about it,
         | while searching for info about the current situation in Brasil
        
           | tocs3 wrote:
           | Also the Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada is
           | in easy walking distance.
        
             | cpp_frog wrote:
             | Exactly 6 six years ago I was there taking a course on Real
             | Analysis by Gustavo Moreira.
        
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       | tcgv wrote:
       | > Just to illustrate the fauna, the black-billed toucans are
       | frequently seen on this area.
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       | What a beautiful animal.
        
       | thegginthesky wrote:
       | I love the Botanical Garden, it's my favorite place in Rio and
       | truly underrated. The biodiversity is amazing, great spot for
       | picnics with the kids, photos and so on. Plus it's super cheap
       | and the staff is very welcoming.
       | 
       | I highly recommend their orchids exhibition, which contains 630
       | unique orchids.
        
       | crazal wrote:
       | I went there a in 2018 it was truly the best botanical park I've
       | been too, would recommend 1/1
        
       | locallost wrote:
       | It's a really nice place. My anegdote from being there in 2012 is
       | that we reached a part that was kind of closed off and walked on
       | a concrete wall or something. There was a large space below, and
       | a small lizard crossed our path and I looked down and saw
       | something that resembled a komodo dragon about 25 meters away
       | from us. I casually mentioned to my wife without wanting to
       | panic, oh let's go back and not get in trouble with that thing,
       | and she laughed at me because she thought I was scared of the
       | tiny lizard. Then she almost freaked out.
        
         | marcosdumay wrote:
         | A teiu (Google says it's called "tegu" in English, no idea if
         | this is correct).
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         | They are mostly harmless. If you don't go and directly touch
         | it, you'll be ok. They are most interesting when those 1 meter
         | long lizards decide to run on two feet only, like if they were
         | small.
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | http://web.archive.org/web/20230108110708/https://myskle.com...
        
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