Chapada in the early wet season

It has been raining on and off every few days in the state of Goiás as the rainy season is underway. This means, as described in a previous blog post about Santa Rosa, Costa Rica, insects that were dormant or in a larval state start to emerge, leaves bud, fruit is a plenty and birds are singing a new tune. This was also true when we returned to that character-filled house I mentioned earlier in Chapada dos Veadeiros. Trees that were leafless a month before had turned green, rocks that were dry had grown mossy, and each night -if the lights were not turned off or we forgot to close a window- termites swarmed by the hundreds!

Newly acquired leaves and dead, dry grass turned green.

Character-filled house

Resident toucans

We continued to eat and drink.

Tapioca and coffee was the usual "cafe de manha" cooked on this wood-burning stove.

Skol -a typical cheap beer found in Brazil

The house came equipt with a drum-set, colourful painting and a loft.

Our hang-out area by the non-functional (and unnecessary) fireplace

Reading in hammocks

Blue and gold maccaws frequented the skies above and are appropriately called "araras" by the locals