Shiniest place on Earth...

Trip Start Oct 03, 2006

Trip End Mar 02, 2007

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Flag of Brazil São Jorge, Brazil
Thursday, February 8, 2007

We spent a couple of days in this National Park in Brazil called Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros. We got there after two and a half days of driving, during which we covered some distance that was like driving 2 and a half times the length of England. The town before the National Park was called S�o Jorge and was a really cute small town. The National Park is supposed to be the shiniest place on Earth in certain NASA satellite photos because of the abundance of quartz crystals. I thought our guide that walked around with us for two days was named Rafael, but actually it was Bruno, and I was calling him the wrong name the whole time and he never said anything. I heard other people call him Bruno but I thought everyone else was wrong and I was right. We went on two really nice hikes and swam in all these waterfalls. It was so great to walk around after sitting on the truck for so many days.

Next to the pousada that we stayed at there was this local artist that lived there, and his art was posted all on the outside of the house and the walls of his house were painted. It turned out that he was really famous, but of course, I temporarily forgot his name. His sister was the one who ran our pousada so she took us over there when she saw me taking pictures of his house, and we got to go inside and see all his artwork. He has this really cool style, and I ended up buying one of his smaller paintings that was done with crayons. He was partially deaf or something but his sister could understand him. He liked painting vaginas and on the wall he had magazine clippings as inspiration, including the dove ones with all the fat chicks.