São Petesburgo

A chegada já foi uma atração. Pela primeira vez vi sol às onze e meia da noite. Infelizmente, não cheguei a ver o sol da meia noite (meu sonho de adolescente, desde o filme com Barishnikov). É difícil de ter uma boa noção de tempo por aqui, pois o dia não termina nunca. Escurece sempre depois da meia noite.

Construída em 1703, por Pedro, O Grande, a cidade é banhada pelo rio Neva e rodeada por canais. A idéia era ser a Veneza do norte, no entanto, se parece mais com Paris. Acho que pelo tamanho e amplitude dos edifícios e monumentos. No próximo ano, será festejado o aniversário de 300 anos da cidade. Por essa razão quase todos os monumentos, teatros, museus e igrejas estão em reformas. Com certeza não é uma ótima época para fotografar as atrações turísticas. Pelo que dizem, as comemorações serão grandes. Talvez uma boa idéia seja visitar a cidade em maio de 2003.

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St. Petersburg and Peterhof

One of the most incredible places here is the subway “metro”. There is the largest and deepest escalator I’ve ever seen. I looks like we are going down into a big hole. The decoration is all from the 50s. There are some stations that are totally closed, dark. You don’t see when the train is coming, there are iron doors that open only when you can board in. It gives a claustrophobia feeling, the walls are thick and the iron doors always closed. It reminded me the film “The Cube”. Some people told me that the doors and thick walls are due to the pressure from the river and canals above.

I decided to visit Peterhof, a palace with nice gardens and lots of water fountains. If before I compared St. Petersburg to Paris, Peterhof is their version of Versalles. After an hour squeezed in a bus I got to the palace. The line to get in the museum was huge, it reminded me what it is to travel in Europe during the summer. I spend a few hours waking around the gardens...

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Rio do Peixe guide (Bonito, Brazil)

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Amantani house’s children (Titicaca – Peru)

They guided me around the island.

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Back to Brasil – Border Argentina Brasil


I arrived in Pozadas at 10am. I went to get my backpack and it wasn’t in the bus. Neither the one from a German friend that came from Salta with me. They told us that our luggage was sent (by mistake) to Glorinda, a city in the border with Assuncion (Paraguay). We had changed the bus at 5am, they told us to not worry with the bags that they would move from one bus to another. They just forgot to tell us that they usually forget some.

We complained at Nueva Estrella Office. They told us this happens a lot, and we would have to wait until 1am when a bus from Glorinda arrives. It was a cold and rainy day. There was not to do in town, we would have to wait the whole day in the bus station.

Since my parents live near the Argentinean border, they had gone to meet me in Pozadas. When they got there to get me, they found out that they would have to wait 16 hours. If we had driven to Glorinda, the way and back, it would take the same amount of time...

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