Family Blog

Yesterday we went to the canyon of Itaimbezinho, one of the canyons in the south of Brazil. The road to the national park of "Aparados da Serra" where this canyon is placed was mostly unfortified. We had rent a VW Gol and the way the national park was a little bit exhausting for us because we can't drive fast. The Brazilian driver seems to ignore the condition of the road - we were passed several times.

The walk around the canyon was beautiful. You walk through rain forest (the Mata Atlântica) which were covered with moss and kind of grass (it seems to very humid most of the time). After 3 km of walking you have a good view down the canyon, about 700 meters deep.

On the way back we saw some skateboard driver on the road (some parts of the road were asphalted). Some minutes later a car comes up the hill with the skateboard drivers in tow. And the next downhill race starts. One skateboard driver we tried to follow but had some problems because he was too fast for us. But on the end of the asphalted road we got him.