Today we spent the entire day touring the city of Sao Vincente. We started off the day by meeting the vice mayor of Sao Vincente. He welcomed us and encouraged us to enjoy the many sites and activities the city has to offer. We had tour guides accompany us throughout the city as well as a cavalcade of police officers following us. Apparently we were that important to need police escorts throughout the day.
The tour guides guided us through many of the city's public parks, monuments and we even drank from the natural spring. They say that those who drink from the spring are destined to return to the city. The city was very beautiful and had a great beach along with a fisherman's wharf. We walked on the wharf and saw a few fisherman catch some very very shiny looking eel-fish things.
After the fisherman's wharf, we visited a small recreation of what the city of Sao Vincente was back in the 1500's. There were people dressed in old colonial dress as well as native brazilian dress. We stayed there for a little bit and then had lunch at a nice buffet restaurant.
After lunch we traveled up in two separate vans up to a monument for one of the most famous architects in Brazil. The monument was sort of a platform with a big arch above it, sort of in the shape of the Sydney opera hall. We looked over the peak, took some pictures and then headed to the landfill!
The landfill was actually renovated in the last decade or so to be a recreation place and for sustainable greenhouses. The entire area used to be covered in trash but now it has playgrounds, greenhouses, and recycling areas. Brazil makes many efforts to clean up the environment and provide safe areas for people to inhabit and this is one of the many municipal projects that Brazil has worked on.
After visiting the landfill we visited a zoo which also acts as a water reservoir, adult education center, and a children with disability teaching center. We got to see all the little monkeys, hippos and birdies flying around. Out of the like twenty zoos we've visited already this one was probably the best.
One last thing to do before the end of the day (twas a long day). We took some two seated lifts up to the top of a cliff where they have para-gliders. A handful of us (not me, i ain't got no money) paid the 100 real to jump off with them. They all landed on the beach and said it was a crazy experience. And that was the end of our day. It was tiring, very very hot in our "business casual" clothes, but it was also pretty cool and entertaining. Now tomorrow is packed with company visits, no lunch and no breaks. Yay?
^ that was the regular blog post again. But anyways, yeah EC if you're reading this, you somehow knew we'd be jumping off cliffs. Like literally, they jumped off a motherfuckin' cliff! I completely would have but unfortunately I don't have the money for that right now. I can't believe it's pretty much their winter/fall here. It was at least 85 degrees out and sunny as hell. I can't imagine what it's like in the summer. I'm tired as hell and think i'm going to call it an early night soon. Thanks for reading and have a pleasant tomorrow!
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