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Photo by Giovanni Lamonica, Aralsk, Kazakhstan.

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by Giovanni Lamonica,
Aralsk, Kazakhstan.



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Next we made our way over to the huge Public Market.

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We then drove over to the biggest park in the city. They really do up the holiday decorations here. There is a massive domed building there, which is an exhibit hall and there was a nice collection of old photos of the city.

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We all went out for sushi Brazilian style, which means with cream cheese in it. Notice the chop stick helpers for those of us not from Vancouver.

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To finish the night we drove across town at 130 am to the practice arena for the Samba school for the Palmera football team. We saw the secret warehouse full of the decorations for the Carnival float. There are awesome, but of course secret. The team spends 2 million dollars on the float and costumes for the 3800 dancers.

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Sunday we recovered, but had to go for an amazing Churrascaria lunch before heading back to the beach. The parking lot was mobbed. For those who have never had Brazillian BBQ you have a sign that says yes or no to alert the waiters if you are still hungry.

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Happy Holidays

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


Found a little something for you guys...of course that it was in Mexico was a little strange.
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That is so awesome thanks!!

Best wishes for your New Year as well!!

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Paraty

From PG we headed to the coast road and north 314 km to Paraty (Parati). This is a scenic drive along the sea to this popular town.


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The streets in the historic center have the worst deep and sharp cobbles ever, which are challenging at low speed if you get in traffic.

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Walking around was much easier.

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Tiradentes

From Paraty we thought we had an easy 450 km drive on the pavement to Tiradentes. The first hint might have been that Google will not route thru Cunha on the 165 to 459-171, but that is the way the GPS liked. Leaving the beach we headed west and north up over the Serra or mountain.

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The road initially was paved, but a bit worse for wear.

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We should have known when the pavement was washed out in sections and then the signpost said, “Use extreme caution.”


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From here the road got worse and then steeper and then much worse and much steeper.

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Sara’s bike is so low that some of the big rocks give her a hard time. On two occasions Dan had to come back and give her a push start when she got stuck.

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The last few km were the most challenging and it was like driving up a very steep riverbed with little choice in the path to take over big rocks on a steep incline around hairpin turns.

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After this luckily it got better and then was ultimately graveled and smooth. After the construction zone it was bricked for a few km and then smooth silky asphalt.

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