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Belo Horizonte Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Boat from Santarem to Manaus - Day 81-82
This is a top pick! ... in the electricity from somewhere but i'm not sure where? Another football game was shown tonight on the top deck, Brazil versus Equator in a World Cup qualifier. A guy with a rope was moving the satellite dish when the boat changed direction. ...
Weekly Meeting - And Goodbye
This is a top pick! ... . I think it is a difficult job, and she has stupid working times. from lunch time to 9 pm. And we traveled together to Belo Horizonte and left the bus on the way to the rodoviaria, because we thought it is cheaper and shorter, becuase we wanted to ...
Sad Day - A Great Travel Ends
This is a top pick! ... it was enough for us I guess ;) The only Problem was that it stopped every one to two hours. But after 17 hours we arrived Belo Horizonte (18.09) and I had to say good bye to Melih and to took the bus back to Ouro Preto. The weather was like I ...
A Tale of Two Cities
... (purely for the enjoyment -to- weight ratio). Leaving Ouro Preto, we caught a 2 hour bus journey to Belo Horizonte which is Brazil's 3rd city in size but possibly first in unattractiveness. Our Lonely Planet dedicated a whole paragraph to it's ...
Buscando oro
Como teniamos previsto, dejamos valença para irnos mas al interior, a la zona de belo horizonte, capital de minas gerais en un puebecito que se llama ouro preto, inicio de la ruta del oro que desembocaba por un lado en rio y por otro en paraty (por ...
Quick stop en route to Diamantina
"Beautiful Horizon" is the third-biggest city in Brazil, and a very new one (late 1800's), but not really much to see other than the many beautiful women walking around the world's most confusing double-grid street ...
Minas Gerais
... off to the airport in Foz de Iguazu to take me to the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and the 3rd largest town in Brazil of Belo Horizonte. Since I spent $150 and whole lot of trouble to get my Brazilian visa I figured I should see a little more of ...
A Mad Dash Across Belo Horizonte
We left Ouro Preto at 5pm on the first of two buses to Porto Seguro. We had a 2 hour bus journey to Belo Horizonte and then an overnight bus to catch to Porto Seguro. Our first bus got stuck in traffic and arrived at 7.30pm at Belo Horizonte. We should ...
Cheapest made cars Ever!
... `s hero and I finally feel as if I contributed something to this family. Cleiber is much happier and everything is fine in Belo. Later Cleiber and I go out and pick up Lea and the funny girl from the night before and we go out for ...
Do not do dishes in a Brazilian home
... , she is the sweetest lady I have ever met. I get a t-shirt that says "I love BH, radically" BH obviously is for Belo Horizonte. Very nice of Cleiber and his mom to get me a gift. Although the person on the shirt looks a lot like a ...
Say goodbye day
... car you have to have a shirt on or you can get a ticket. This amazes me esp considering damn near everything is legal in Brazil. I mean you can drink in a car, run red lights, hump prostitutes, and drink when you are basically a fetus but ...
Belo Horizonte
... with some sandwiches, biscuits and juice, 2 hours later I was in Serro, where I had an to wait before the connecting bus to Belo Horizonte, which is the capital of the state of Minas Geries. So the journey from Serro went along an unpaved road for about 5 ...
Enough Beach Time (for now)
... the main bus stop to take a 90 min ride. A cab would have been $56 sine the airport is way out. I saved $55. Then a flight to Belo Horizonte. In all, a 10 hour trip. It beats a 24 hour bus ride. I am now within 10 hours of Rio and can explore some of the ...
Long night of travel back to the mountains!
Wanted to spice up my trip up the coast with a short side trip into central Minas Gerais to explore a few of the colonial towns...Will write more ...
City of the beautiful horizon, and Black Gold!
Belo Horizonte, meaning 'beautiful horizon', is one of my stops where especially the people I met made the experience (what mostly is the case, maybe even always, but I need more time to come to that possible conclusion). My host and his family were ...
Travel day
... The train does not go as the map shows. It was more of a counter clockwise horseshoe through beautiful countryside. From the train in Belo Horizonte we had a 2 hour wait to catch a 2 hour bus to Ouro Preto. Total travel time - 28 hrs. We got to Ouro ...
Mandiocas Bravas - ensaio
Antes de se chegar a algum lugar, é necessário chegar à metade do caminho. Porém, antes de se chegar à metade do caminho é necessário chegar à metade da metade, e antes à metade da metade da metade, e assim por diante infinitamente, o que prova ...
I meet my complimentary counterpart
... kinds of shit and then jet after like 15 minutes. Hah, nothing like eating and running, this turns out to be a recurring theme in Belo Horizonte. Go to his house and meet his mom. She is so sweet and nice but she talks so much and quite ...
Partindo para Belo Horizonte
Saí do Rio de Janeiro e parti para Belo Horizonte, no estado de Minas Gerais. Estive no municipio de Formiga, onde nasceu minha mãe e depois fui para BH visitar Rogério e Daiane. Um casal de minissionários amigos meus. Rogério trabalha com um ...
Minas and mineiros
... the night. The next day, we all went for coffee, and I found out that the friends of my friends were returning to Belo Horizonte, the capital of a neighbouring state called Minas Gerais, that same day. They had an extra spot in their car, and ...
I hate walking
... `t drink the beer in the park (which I found odd since you can literally drink beer or any alcoholic beverage anywhere in Brazil except for behind the steering wheel, in Barbados you can drink while driving, I kid you not), and therefore had to chug ...
Beloved Belô!
... importantly - fabulous food! Everyday I enjoy a different flavor that I had been missing... At the moment I cannot get enough of BRAZIL!! and it might stay this way for the next few years. I hope. It is very interesting to enjoy the simple moments ...
Xmas eve in Brazil
... to purchase some necessary provisions for xmas which consisted of mostly beer. Cleiber shows me around town and Belo Horizonte is like the San Francisco of Brazil as roads here are paved over very steep hills which twist and turn and make for a ...
Quick stop in BH
We just stopped in Belo Horizonte to get the bus to Salvador. It is the capital of the Minas Gerais region in Brazil, a really big and busy city, not much tourists going ...
Beer and Cachaca in BH
... 500 kilómetros caballo .... que ambos hemos acordado es nuestro límite, física, mental, y el tiempo prudente .... Llegamos a Belo Horizonte , la capital del estado de Minas Gerais . El viaje a la ciudad fue bastante agradable. Llegamos ...
Dia 7 - Ouro Preto - Mariana - Belo Horizonte
I'm now in the bus station in Belo Horizonte. In a few minutes I take a bus to Montes Claros, a hot and dry city in Minas Gerais. I was there with 4 friends in the summer of (not '69) 2003 doing voluntary work with the Movimento ao Serviço da Vida. Those ...
Caves and bus waiting
... and I will save you the details except to mention, I was able to have a subway sandwich for breakfast! Yum! After arriving in Belo Horizonte our plan was to head straight to Ouro Preto and start doing the sights, but I read on the plane that all the ...