Ouro Preto

Ouro Preto	Praca Tiradentes	Ouro Preto	Ouro Preto
Jackie and friend	View from our room	Our apartment on a steep hill	Mina do Chico-Rei
Jackie the miner	Mina do Chico-Rei	Tight squeeze	Peter's new haircut
Conceição de Antonio Dias	Teatro Municipal (1769)	Teatro Municipal	Jackie is the audience
The bar in our apartment	Happy New Year everyone!	Peter & our apartment	New Year parade outside our window
Congado celebrations for New Year	Minas de Passagem (1719-1985)	Now only 4 grams per ton of rock	Original cable car
They say the cable is new	Jackie's leg in the dark	Huge gold & diamond mine	Pillars to hold up the roof
Fool's gold	9 levels & 7 entrances	Subterranean lake	Crystal clear water
Swimming no longer permitted (boo)	35 tonnes of gold have been extracted	Many were black slaves	Shrine to dead miners
Getting off at the bottom	Jackie getting ready to go up	Heading up	Into the daylight
Separating the gold