Category: Landscapes

Cachoeira Olinda and Recife

  Cachoeira: This riverside town was once an important port where they shipped sugar and tobacco downriver. It’s main sight is the church of Ordem Terceiro do Carmo a baroque church. It is a sleepy town full of colourful preserved buildings. It is joined by a British built bridge to the town of Sao  Felix. […]

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Lake Powell

Fun, friends, frolics, cocktails, sunshine and absolute stunning canyons. Lake Powell was amazing. I had the best trip aboard a houseboat with family and friends. The sunsets alone were spectacular but the fun canoeing, water-skiing, boating and enjoy the leisurely ride down through the canyons of this stunning man-made Lake.

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Paraty

Romantic Paraty (pronounced Parachee) with its narrow cobbled street and colonial houses with pretty gardens , fishermen’s adobe cottages and horse drawn carts is picturesque. With a background of jungle mountains many artists have come here and stayed and now have art galleries, many chefs have arrived and opened restaurants or cafes and the lack […]

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Lima

  I found Lima a city of contrasts. Founded by Fransisco Pizzaro Lima has a historic centre with wonderful churches, cloisters and monasteries but it is also a very modern city with high rise condos, casinos and hotels. The food is both modern and traditional with gastronomical dishes such as ceviche and cuy (guinea pig).  […]

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