...so (not) good to me. In Brazil the world SHUTS down on Mondays. EVERYTHING is closed. We left Ouro Preto this morning and took a two hour bus to Belo Horizonte. We wanted to go to this National Park nearby but it is also closed on Mondays. It was pouring rain all morning, finally the rain began to let up by afternoon. Belo is a bustley city. We are staying at a high-end hotel right on the main street. Prepared for rain we rode a bus to the outskirts of the city to a neighborhood called Pampulha. Not knowing where to begin we continued riding the bus to the end of the line and then started randomly walking. We walked around this HUGE man-made lake. We saw an entire herd of Capibarra (largest rodent on earth, see picture below), and a Crocodile.The lake was pretty dirty (brown water and FILLED with trash along the shores) from all the rain earlier today. There were also some vultures feasting on some carcasses but the pungent rotting smell kept us from approaching to see what they were feasting on. Our long walk culminated at this (closed) Church designed by the famous architect Niemeyer.
Here are some photos:
Oh and here are some good photos from yesterday's travels. We went into a gold mine that plunged deep into the earth. It was basically like Gringotts on this rickety cart (unfortunately vault 364 was empty).
After the mine we went to town Mariana and checked it out
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