Ouro Preto, Brazil Travel Blogs

Twins on tour
Aug 18, 2005

... was followed by numerous night buses and one wonderful 13-hour train ride from Vitoria to Belo Horizonte to make our way down to Ouro Preto, where we are now, a beautiful old colonial mining town. On the way, we stopped briefly in the towns of Ilheus and ...

Ouro Preto
Sep 15, 2004

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Ouro Preto in our entry from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil entitled 'Rio Rocks!'. Cheers, K & S

Cities of Gold
Aug 23, 2006 (20 photos)

... , manganese, tin, zinc and a variety of precious gems. Our destination was the jewel in the crown, the town of Vila Rica de Ouro Prêto (Rich Town of Black Gold), one-time state capital and richest city in the New World. The wealth generated during the 18th ...

Motorbikes and Museu Aberto
Sep 24, 2005 (15 photos)

Events in Ouro Preto The Same Kind of People Everywhere Strange, but the motorbike loving people are everywhere the same. They look like bikers and they are bikers, but Ok maybe they have all black hair here and have more brown skin, but who cares. ...

Work Starts
Sep 19, 2005

First Day Today morning Vitor wanted to pick me up at 8 am. but I was waiting and waiting. I was really worry and wanted to call him, but than circa 20 min too late rang the bell and my first day could start. Arriving in the Lab Claudia, my real ...

Ouro Preto - Discover - Black Gold
Aug 22, 2005 (30 photos)

... about Ouro Preto Click here for more information about Ouro Preto Click here for more information about the sightseeing in Ouro Preto Some interesting infos about Ouro Preto: - it is in the Brazilian staat Minas Gerais - in the 18. century ...

Sad Day - A Great Travel Ends
Sep 17, 2005

... to say good bye to Melih and to took the bus back to Ouro Preto. The weather was like I felt ... It was raining. Ouro Preto It was like coming home. Everybody was friendly and asked we what I have done in Northeast. And I could eat the good food ...

Eat your own body weight in food
Sep 15, 2005 (9 photos)

Well, we made it to Ouro Preto (black gold in Portguese), a gorgeous cobbled town protected as a world heritage site. Our pousada (B&B) is right at the top of the hill (thanks for the recommendation Anya) with an amazing view over the town. The people ...

Buscando oro
Apr 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... , 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 supuesto el transporte lo ...

Combien en comptez-vous?
Mar 5, 2008 (8 photos)

... la ville anciennement capitale et désormais petite ville du Minas Geiras. Combien de PAVES comptez-vous ? Nous arrivons a Ouro Preto après 7 heures d'un trajet en bus de nuit calamiteux. Dans les bus brésiliens, nous n'avons expérimenté que ...

Mining for gold...
Aug 3, 2009 (5 photos)

... nbsp; I wasn´t quite brave enough, but Eugene had a dip in the water which looked amazing and so clear. The next day in Ouro Preto we took easy, just walking around the town, stopping for coffee and chocolate (boy the chocolate was good) and looking in all ...

The city of "Black Gold"
Mar 18, 2009 (24 photos)

The most famous and visited of Brazil's colonial mining towns, the dramatic, steep setting of cobbled streets, the numerous preserved colonial buildings and shocking history of very cruel slavery used in the mines make this beautiful city a must-see.

Ouro Preto - church fatigue
Aug 21, 2009 (3 photos)

... very fond of overnight busses. A combination of badly surfaced, winding roads, bd suspension and crazy drivers makes for little sleep. Ouro Preto was a gold boom town in the 1700s, when evidently the thing to do when you had money and were catholic was ...

More of Ouro Preto
Sep 22, 2006 (6 photos)

... and dance here. They all love to laugh and have fun. Brazil is beautiful but I still think the people are the main attraction. Ouro Preto has such a different feeling then Rio and Buzios, I can´t explain. I love it here, its always hard to leave the places ...

In search of Gems...
Sep 24, 2007 (15 photos)

... fabulous and lovely 18th-century town village deeply stuck in the valleys of Minas Gerais' mountains. Anachronistic, amazing, fascinating... Ouro Preto resurges as a vision, a mirage amidst the dense mist of dawn. The impression for first-time visitors is ...

Ouro Preto
Jun 2, 2008

... really getting better and so we have decided to head about 200 miles north to a little village in the mountains called Ouro Preto. This place is absolutely beautiful. It is a small Gold Mining village and has stunning surroundings including the mountains, ...

Ouro Preto (¨Black Gold¨)
Sep 29, 2006 (24 photos)

Our first bus ride out of Rio took us to the town of Ouro Preto, where every single surface on every single building breathes history from Brazil´s colonial past.  A beautiful sight indeed, but we soon learned how the breathtaking beauty ...

Ouro Preto
Feb 9, 2007 (8 photos)

... book mentions the cities briefly but without a strong recommendation. I place the group as a highlight of my trip.   Ouro Preto is  gorgeous city. Colonial feel has been largely retained with green hills all around. While the churches may not ...

Week 3 - Gems and Beaches
Aug 25, 2004 (7 photos)

... mine où selon l´histoire le roi africain Chico Rei aurait racheté la liberté de tout son peuple emmené en esclavage à Ouro Prêto. Interessante leçon morale.. Nous sommes finalement resté une journée additionnelle dans cette ville parce que l´autobus pour Rio était ...

Ouro Prêto, Old gold town
Jul 18, 2007 (6 photos)

... was a bit of a trial and was only really on and off for the twisting and turning (and caning!) 7 hour journey to Ouro Prêto. We arrived, somewhat bleary-eyed and disorientated, around 6.30am. It's really weird to just wake up somewhere with no bloody idea ...

Beautiful Colonial Towns Amid Green Hills
Feb 10, 2007 (6 photos)

... ticket. He is a student presumably picking up some change for a trip he had to make.   Mariana is a smaller version of Ouro Preto. A sister city but only takes half a day to explore.   Afterward, I go to Minas de Passagem, an old gold mine. ...

Day 229 - Ilheus to Ouro Preto
Apr 18, 2008 (22 photos)

... in the hills. Our first hint of what was to come was a lonely old church looking out over the valley of trees below. Ouro Preto is absolutely raved about by guidebooks and within seconds of entering the town we could see why, with a number of ...

Villa Rica de Ouro Preto
Mar 3, 2009

... 1700's. Much of the wealth went into the building of local buildings especially churches. Mony of these were designed by Aleijadinho who is Brazil's most famous sculptor - Bit of a 'My Left Foot' type story. He lost the use of his hands and legs at the ...

Brazil's Colonial Heartland
Jun 17, 2005 (51 photos)

... Gold. The beauty and opulance is striking. Mining made this area rich and slaves built some of the nicest Baroque churches anywhere. Ouro Preto is the the largest and most well known of these colonial towns and I was there several days. I also went to ...

Long night of travel back to the mountains!
Apr 20, 2007 (17 photos)

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 soon!

Postkarte
Apr 7, 2008 (2 photos)

so,nichts besonderes, habe auch keineLust zu schreiben... Wollte hiermit nur sagen ds jeder der mir seine Adresse schickt ne Karte bekommt...sind dann die letzten die ich verschicke :) nagut, n bisschen schreibe ich doch noch. Das Nest hier war ...

Aankomst in Ouro Preto
Jan 8, 2008

Gezellige stad met koloniale huizen en oude mijnen.

The Jewel in Brazilian Crown
Oct 20, 2006

... (mid teens or so). we had some some standard (for us) food at a buffet and went to grab a drink before we crashed. Ouro Preto does not have a big nighlife sceen. There are no bars with patio´s or people drinking on the street. We chose a little italian ...

Manaus to Ouro Preto
Sep 2, 2008 (5 photos)

... . There are many shopping malls and restaurants. It was Kate´s  birthday today, so we went out to celebrate. Now at Ouro Preto (once the richest city in the world). We´ve been to the disused gold mine where they dug out 35 tons of gold. As ...

Poop
Feb 15, 2007

... some weight on this trip - he started at about 300 lbs and now he may be 10-20 less, but stillllll.... I am in Ouro Preto, which is a really beautiful Colonial old school mining town. I have yet to walk around the town because I am too busy trying ...