Photo taken at Namibia
After a long trip, with two layovers, I’ve finally arrived in Namibia and started my trip toward the North from Windhoek to Opuwo, where I will try to meet the Himba people
Photo taken at Pequenos Lençóis Maranhenses
Tchau Lençóis! I wish I had more time to explore this incredible landscape and get to know even better the people that inhabit it.
I’m heading know to Namibia. It’s a long detour from my path through South America, but it was the only moment I could do this without risking to ran into the rainy weather
Photo taken at Pequenos Lençóis Maranhenses
On the opposite side of the river from Atins, in what are called Pequenos Lençóis, there are less tourists and it is still possible to find some local fishermen
Photo taken at Atins – Lençóis Maranhenses
Tia Rita moved to Atins fifty years ago. She told me about a really different village, with any tourist and a simpler life based as usual on fishing activities, both in the sea and the lagoons. “Tourism changed a lot our way of life, but I don’t mind. I like having people from all around Brasil and the world coming to my pousada. Atins is still as beautiful as when I first arrived. I wouldn’t go anywhere else
Photo taken at Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses
Riding from Baixa Grande to Atins, toward the coast. The best way to enjoy the Lençois is by feet, but that would have been to complicated for me considering my weight load and timing
Photo taken at Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses
Aerial view of Baixa Grande, one of the two inhabited oasis that sit in the middle of Lençois Maranhenses
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Manu (51) used to spend most of his time fishing in the lagoons around Baixa Grande to provide for his family. Today he takes care of his guests at Paradiso dos Lençois with help of his wife Maria and their daughters
Photo taken at Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses
Lençóis Maranhenses are known for their desert landscape of tall, bright sand dunes and the seasonal rainwater lagoons that form between them. I wonder if one day climate change will be so strong that even the weather patterns that are responsible for such beauty will be disrupted
Photo taken at Baixa Grande, Maranhao, Brazil
Spending the night under the moonlight in Baixa Grande. In the last 15 years the handful of families that live in this oasis in the middle of the desert adapted their homes -and their lives- to host an increasing number of tourists
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Crossing the desert from Barreirinhas to Baixa Grande, one of the two inhabited oasis of the Lençóis Maranhenses