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Ouro Preto Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ouro Preto, Brazil
Twins on tour
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Chapada dos Guimaraes National Park - Day 73
This is a top pick! Booked a bus ticket to Sandarem this morning, I leave Cuiaba this evening. This is an alternative route into the Amazon to one I was originally going to take. My original plan was a combination of bus and boat to Manaus via Porto Velho which would ...
Ouro Preto
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Ouro Preto in our entry from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil entitled 'Rio Rocks!'. Cheers, K & ...
Cities of Gold
This is a top pick! ... . We didn't stop there to admire the smelting complex, but rather to check out the talents of the 'Michaelangelo of Brazil': Antônio Francisco Lisboa, more fondly referred to as Aleijadinho. This patron of Brazilian arts was incredibly active during the ...
Motorbikes and Museu Aberto
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Work Starts
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... information 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 ...
Sad Day - A Great Travel Ends
This is a top pick! ... had 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 ...
Eat your own body weight in food
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 ...
chapada number 2
to escape teh heat of caceres i went west to the hilly are called chapada dos guimaraes. its close by, a city bus goes from teh centre and takes a little under an hour as you climb through spectacular scenery of steep sided plateau. i arrived in the ...
Buscando oro
... , 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 ...
Sick Days, Churches and Gold in Ouro Preto
... we were curious about the title "inconfidencia". It was a very small museum and seemed to be about a mix of the history of Ouro Preto and a specific plot relating to Brazilian Independence in the area. They had some random displays that did not seem to go ...
Combien en comptez-vous?
... ou écrire dès que la nuit tombe, c'est-à-dire très tôt, à 18 heures... J'en reviens à notre bus, Rio à Ouro Preto. Appelé « Convencional ». Mais pas « convencional » du tout selon nos critères... les sièges ne ...
Cobblestone streets
... , some 2.5 hours away. The hills started getting bigger and the valleys deeper and eventually we entered Ouro Preto, a 300+ year mining town and one of Brazil's most visited destinations. We got some local tourist info from a guide at the terminal ...
Mining for gold...
... ; 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 ...
Ouro Preto - La pluie à la montagne
... pas ce que c'est...). Bref, une soirée improvisée mais bien arrosée et très agréable. Le lendemain, les hollandaises quittent Ouro Preto pour Salvador et de mon côté, je tente d'avancer mon départ pour le soir même. Malheureusement le ...
The city of "Black Gold"
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 ...
More of Ouro Preto
... 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 ...
Minerals, gems, and a prety colonial town
As I have loved stones and minerals since I was a child, I truly enjoyed visiting Ouro Preto ('black gold') in Minas Gerais, a state in Brazil known for its mines. Sadly many slaves worked in these mines and died very young. But even now new minerals keep ...
In search of Gems...
... ;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 ...
Rich City of Black Gold
... late start after our first drive day. The cook team did a good job with the pancakes. Then it was a stiff walk into town to investigate Ouro Preto made rich in the gold rush - not sure why it it Black Gold. The town is built in and around steep hills and ...
Ouro Preto
... 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¨)
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 ...
Ouro Preto
... guide 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 ...
Week 3 - Gems and Beaches
*** la version d´André suit *** We arrived in Ouro Preto in the state called Minas Gerais (general mines) around 10 p.m. on August 9th. We had reserved a double room in a hostel that we discovered was in a beautiful, 200 year old building with great ...
Truck times
... & daysack with space to spare - my bag is actually one of the smallest! Set off on the truck for a day of travelling to Ouro Preto. Got introduced to the rules/how-tos of the truck as well as finally working out who exactly was on our trip. Also found ...
Mine & multiple churches
... to the supermarket where the other cook groups bought their ingredients for the next few days. Got back to the campsite & straight out to Ouro Preto, a long walk up & down hills with some others in the group. Having the same idea/need as me we headed to ...
Beautiful Colonial Towns Amid Green Hills
... a bus 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 ...
Day 229 - Ilheus to Ouro Preto
... 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 ...
Ouro Prêto, Old gold town
... 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 ...