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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