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Campos do Jordao, highland retreat for wealthy Paulistos wanting to escape the madness of Sao Paulo. They come it seems in summer to this bizarre collection of Swiss Chalets, as incongruous in the lush semi-tropical landscape of hibiscus and frangipani as they are ugly. A frightful mudslide once killed hundreds of the local blacks who live alongside the township in rough makeshift shacks; there to serve the dominant whites in modern day servitude presented politely as a summer resort. We drank rich Brazilian coffee in high raftered coffee houses snacking on Swiss style chocolates amidst cobbled lanes and rose gardens.
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