Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Monday, November 12, 2012

The Roads of Brazil, part 2.


For a change - a couple of weeks old, but more coloured pictures of the surroundings of Urubici.

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Before sunset the sky turned clearer.


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Next, I found from internet a couple of interesting mountain roads. Above is the Morro da Igreja http://dangerousroads.org/brazil/315-morro-da-igreja-brazil.html. One of the few places where you can find also snow. I reached up half an hour before sunset, and the first thought was to stay there overnight, but the wind did almost blow me away, and no wonder, because the record of Brazilian wind speed is registered in this spot (13 April 2008, 178.9 km / h or 49.7 meters per second).

The road up was quite cool, of course. The next day, the SC-439 or Estrada da Serra do Corvo Branko http://dangerousroads.org/brazil/340-estrada-da-serra-do-corvo-branco-brazil.html

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From the top.

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The Exchange of stickers, the blue black and white one finds its place. Another interesting part of road - SC-438 http://dangerousroads.org/brazil/292-rodovia-sc-438-brazil.html

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These roads were totally worth filming, and here is just another solution for "How to fix the camera." 


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Above there was the observation deck, pies being sold and coatis.

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One more so-called accommodation place. You are driving along a side road until it is pitch-dark and in the end you just sleep next to the road. And in the morning it is quite interesting to wake up and have a look around.

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Continued.

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