The name of the van is chosen. After a lot of ideas, choices and discussions we chose the name. As our family is catholic and lives near “Serra da Piedade”, the name was chosen to pay tribute to our Heaven Mother.
January 13th, 2018 The day before yesterday, the eleventh, the trip was very tiring. We traveled eight hundred kilometers. We left Sauce Viego at nine o’clock and arrived in Punta del Este at eleven p.m. Everybody was exhausted. We passed through customs from Argentina to Uruguay. There they inspected our van. In the fridge there were tomatoes, eggs, apples, onion, bananas and carrots. They told us it is prohibited to go into the country with animal and vegetal products. He picked up the eggs, the carrot and the onion. There was no mountain in this region of Argentina and Uruguay we passed. It is plain. It predominates the soy, corn and sunflower plantations. There were lots of animal feeding stuff rolled in haystack. Fotos It predominates cattle raising. The cattle breed is Angus. Lomo, in Argentica, correspond to “file mignon”. In Brail. It is very smooth. Fotos.
January 3th, 2018 We arrived in San Pedro del Atacama yesterday. We went to a tourist agency (Colque Tours) to buy the tourist packets. The tourist agent is Brazilian, from São José dos Campos. We bought the packets for three days. Today we went to Puritama Hot Springs. Jonas, the driver, was the tourist guide, explained us about the vegetation: some small grass, typical of desert place, which is the food for Vicunha, a small camel from South America. It is not domesticated. It is in extintion, so the hunt is prohibited. We saw a Vicunha Family, which the male stays in the front observing the place. The female and the small ones eat all the time. At the springs The water is warm, about 30 degrees. There are seven lagoons. The first one the tourists can’t swim because it is the hottest one. We stayed at the second one all the time. The water was about 30 degrees. We stayed there for 2 hours. It was very relaxing. We are in Atacana Desert. It is inte...
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