Borencia
While waiting for our return flight we land at the seaside in Borencia small seaside resort without cachet but with a large sandy beach.
The campsite is located on the beach not far from shops.
We enjoy a sea view next to two other motorhomes, a Brazilian and an Argentinian one.
The campsite is to be avoided on weekends: from Friday morning to Sunday evening, families with bungalows come every weekend. They drink one beer after the other while listening to extremely loud music ... A real nightmare for Christophe. Unfortunately, we are parked right next to them.
The weather is pleasant despite some cloudy periods.
We stay a week and then return to Sao Paulo for our flight back home.
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Uberaba / Sao Paulo
We drive two days through a monotonous landscape.
We decide to go see the storage we reserved for our companion. It is located near the airport and we will enjoy a covered place. Great!!
The traffic is dense, we prefer to stop in a service station at the entrance of Sao Paulo. before reaching the sea.
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Brasilia
When we arrive the electric step of the camper no longer works ... Another small problem!!
Luc, one of the Belgian motorhome drivers is testing the electric circuit, and it seems that the fault is at the switch. He gives us an address to dispatch.
Everything happens on the street, mechanics, all specialties combined, hold a stand on the sidewalk in the middle of the parts shops.
Among the many stands we choose Ricardo. Helped by a colleague, they also test the electrical circuit and eventually dismantle the step. But it refuses to work. After more than 2 hours they test the switch and finally clean it ... Result the step works again.
We choose to leave the capital to reach Sao Paulo..
Brasilia
Monuments that we cannot visit due to the riots of January 8th 2023.
* Palácio do Itamaraty: it houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Surrounded by water, the semicircular concrete arches enclose a rectangular glass structure.
* Congresso Nacional: the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are housed in the two towers joined by a glass bridge at mid-height, a concave hemisphere and a dome.
* Palácio do Planalto: this is the presidential palace. The white marble columns that surround it take half the shape of those of the palácio da Alvorada, the president’s residence.
Brasilia
Monuments that we can visit ; some of them have no great interest except their architecture.
* La Torre de TV: it is the highest monument in Brasília (224 m). An elevator leads to a platform at half height from where the view, panoramic, allows to understand the structure of the city.
* Juscelino Kubitschek Memorial: A tribute to the city’s founder, who died in a car accident in 1976. The building, designed by Niemeyer, houses JK’s office furniture and personal library.
* Catedral Metropolitana: A monument entirely facing the sky with its sixteen curved columns facing outwards. Inside, the stained glass windows that crown the building decline the blue of the sky in a play of shadows and stains on the white marble floor.
* Santuario Dom Bosco: This square church has 40 pointed arches 16 m high, between which the stained glass windows of Hubert van Doorne compose a huge gradient of more than a dozen blue tones. The enormous chandelier (3.5 m high, 5 m in diameter) consists of 7,400 pieces of Murano glass.
Brasilia
We’re heading to Brasilia
The capital of Brazil is an amazing city that was born in 1956 by the will of President Juscelino Kubitschek.
Futuristic city in the center of Brazil, it is to the Brazilian achitecte Oscar Niemeyer that one owes the most representative buildings of the capital.
Brasília was conceived as a remedy for modern urban chaos. Admired for its modernist architecture and avant-garde plan, the city is also criticized.
Its critics deplore the inadequacy of ultra-organized thematic neighbourhoods, the omnipresence of cars and overcrowding – the city was built for 500,000 inhabitants and now has almost 3 million…
The political capital of Brazil, Brasília is a city of civil servants, but also the first city in the world built in the 20th century and classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The road we are using is actually an unpaved road on some sections... We do not understand why this main axis joining the capital is not of good quality while our paper map and the two GPS indicate no difficulty!!
We land on the edge of a lake, site indicated to us by a Brazilian at the campsite of Pirenopolis and very known by motorhomes.
We find the two Belgian couples we met in Chapalas Do Guamaraes.
They give us some information on how to visit the city and especially inform us that we can take the camper since there are large parking everywhere and the avenues are huge.
Indeed, the avenues are 4 or 5 lanes and there are parking lots at each corner, plus the distances are great to reach the different sites.
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