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Chapada
Diamantina - Brazil "Lost World"
Take a landscape of Mesas, strange and fantastic rock formations surface, a
system of caves in quartzite and lakes clear underground rivers, and you have
the attitude of some of the most wild eco-adventure in Brazil.
Add in a boom of historic diamond prospectors, the nature and monuments, 152000
hectares, the Chapada Diamantina National Park north of the state of Bahia.
Orient yourself with this interactive map of houses.
At the dawn of the 19th century, two french prospectors discovered a vein of
big diamonds in the region of unusual rock formations, the country table,
underground Brazil apartments, waterfalls, valleys and mountains called morros. If word is
past, lessons that the influx of diamonds a rush of prospectors, called
garimperos Lençóis because of the city as a starting point to discover what is
now known as the Chapada Diamantina, or Brazil 's Lost World.
However, the Chapada Diamantina National Park, founded in 1985, is a region
with a mixture of landscapes: the red and green trails Rock Mesas fed by water from the sub-system, Brazil Property, waterfalls and pools near contrasts with the drought-stricken semi-Sertão. This topography is the cake, as layers of
sediment collected on the same bottom of the sea primitive, and pushed one
carved by wind and water in the table of mountains, gorges and caves.
Arrival:
Come to Lençóis is on the road or air transport.
With the aircraft on international flights or national Brazilian real estate companies after Rio deJaneiro and Sao Paulo, then a Property in Brazil link with El Salvador, then connecting toLençóis. Use the kayak travel reservations, study flights from your region in
the wake of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
By car, from Salvador, one of the two daily buses from the Real Expresso. It is
six hours by road, and about 267 miles .
Lençóis about:
The climate of the Chapada Diamantina is a popular destination all year round,
but storms evening around seven metres of rainfall per year.
After the third largest city in the northeast state of Bahia, Lençóis is now
much smaller and is principally a tourist town. You can arrange hiking or ask
your Brazilian villa for help in planning tours with groups of six to 10 people. English
speaking guide is available.
Lençóis is easily accessible by road, and its cobblestone streets, colonial
buildings in pastel colours and churches are a souvenir of her wild past. Given
that the entrance of the national park Chapada Diamantina, it has a good
selection of lodgings or… and thoroughly cantinas
and restaurants, where people drink beer and Brazilian estate stories with the
locals and find the best spots climbing, diving and swimming holes.
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