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Brazil sky-high prices shock World Cup tourists

The Associated Press

Brazil is a land of sky-high prices, and here is a sample of the charges awaiting visitors coming for the World Cup:

–Single room at four-star hotel in Copacabana: $400 a night.

–Big Mac: $6.28.

–iPhone 5s: $1,250 on Apple’s Brazilian website.

–Official Brazil national team soccer shirt: $103-$157.

–Pair of Nike’s Flyknit Lunar 2 running shoes: $313.

–Levis 501: $80.

–“Rodizio,” all-you-can-eat barbecue meal: $60, without drinks.

–Caipirinha cocktail, made with Brazil’s cachaca sugar cane liquor: $10.

–Entrance to visit Christ the Redeemer statue: $22.

–Entrance to top of Sugar Loaf mountain: $22.

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