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Chapada, Brasilia, São Paulo

hola gente!

e ai .. tudo beleza?

am in são paulo since two days. moved today from the hostal to frensh frie-guy, because i found it too expensive to stay some days in the hostal here. i knew some peolpe travelling who i am meeting in these days here, so they helped me to find somebody where i can stay and found this guy who makes couchsurfing and now i stay here in his apartment and i don’t have to worry about the expensive nights

i feel very well in são paulo. it’s very modern, peolpe are more modern (clothes, look) and i have peolpe how show me around, just a petty that it is raining a lot. but i am chilled, so its ok. i am very emotional and looking forward to go back to rio at the weekend  

São Paulo seems a mix out of Buenos Aires, Quito, New York … and looking down from a huge building you just see buildings and buildings and buildings. incredilbe!

Brasilia was also very interesting. it was short but anough to get an idea. it’s veeery green and wide. it’s like a lot of villages with space between. eric, a guy i met in maracaípe picked us up (i travelled with neil, northern ireland) from the airport and showed us around and explained – veery sympatic!!

without car you can’t do much in this city. there isn’t any center, walking zone …

everything there is so new and correctly planned, and from the television tower you can see the symmetrie of the pilot body.

we spent the night in eric’s house with some of his friends, the next day i joint their capoeria class and then we just went straight to the chapada dos veadeiros because the weather was quite rainy.

one day in alto paraiso we walked to some waterfalls television-like!! we were almost alone and the water was just cristal green!

then we spent 2 days in são jorge, the little village at the nacional park entrance and made some hikes and nice daytrips. but the weather was very insecure so i headed straight to são paulo – my last overnight bus!

yes, my last destination, incredible! going back to rio …hm. and today i knew that my loved samba de 4ta feira isn’t goiing on at the moment because of complaining of the neighbours bah!

até logo, cheers, tudo de boa*carolina

sanddunes and maranhão

oi galera!

yes, em, i am in são luís, maranhão and tomorrow i have a flight to brasilia. neil from ireland and his nice accent will come with me. the created city with some different things liker other cities. everybody is asking you “why are you going there?”

well for me there were a few reasons … it was the cheapest way to go south – instead of passing foz du iguaçu, what my plan was – , i wanted to gop back to a chapada, a nacional park in the interior because i wasn t satisfied with ust the week in the chapada diamantina/bahia, and i met some guysfrom brasilia in maracaúpe and they told me a bit about the city and said they can show me around a bit.

well, it´s just a few things what the diffrence makes: i won´t find a old house in this young city, i won´t find native peolpe and the order and the names of the streets is diffrent. oscar niemayr built that city like a airplane. so you live in one of wings, or in the body …. and the governmental buildings occupy a certain part of the airplane ….

then i will meet peolpe from all the parts of brasil who went living there. from everywhere! will be an incredible mixture.

i don´t know if i will see and recognize all these things in just 2 or 3 days, but i try and will have an impression ;-) and i will pass the last days of my 7 month in the nature. it´s been weeks that i am on the coast. i will leave the sea  now. it´s just cities left. afterwards i will go to são paulo and then just heading back to rio. i miss it a lot now. well my friends there and the samba! it will be hard to say goodbye, but i will also love it going back at the 24.  to my beautiful room, my bed, my friends and my school. yeah, going back to complain “i miss brasil” ;-D

i had really nice weeks now. i really enjoyed the northeast. i also heard peolpe saying “further north you are going, as nicer it is”.

the last days i spent the time with giovanni from napoli and in the nacional park of lençois maranhenses we had a crazy nice day with the carioca flavio and the spanish david. will upload photos then. 

peolpe are very nice and friendly and the landscape is beautiful. a lot of sanddunes, with green inbetween and cows, donkyes and horses …

i am always wondering again how talkactive peolpe are in this country. thats  what you get to feel every day and every where you go. mainly traveling alone or with peolpe also talking portugese.

i mean they just wanna talk all the time and about everything. about interesting and important things about their country, my country, the world, the economy, sustainable works … really interesting conversations until talking about daily stuff, problems, little happinesses … it doesn´t care were you are, – the toilet line, busstation, eating – always and everywhere somebody will speak to you.

ok, leaf you …

i am a bit confused, maybe i just write things dobble .. it´s a bit that i am in the internet.

tudo beleza, massa, take care, love and hugs,

carolina*