OK, so the picture above was taken before my Spring Break trip. My school organized a "field trip" for exchange students to an old coffee plantation. The countryside was awesome and we got to play around in lakes/pools all day.
Our first stop on the Spring Break trip was to Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais. I loved the town! It feels much more manageable and safe than Rio. The food in Minas is incredible and quite cheap! We visited several free museums and went to one night club before heading to our next stop.
This picture is from Ouro Preto, a colonial town about 2 hours away from Belo Horizonte. We only got to stay for a few hours, but I would have stayed forever! The town has beautiful churches, a lively crowd of college students, and chocolate all over the place.
I present to you the world's largest rodent, a capybara. These guys are absolutely disgusting. Apparently, they can run as fast as horses. These that we saw were quite lazy and just bathed in the mud all day.
We left Minas Gerais for Bahia, where we stayed in Chapada Diamantina for several days. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
The water is black because of the minerals it contains. Despite the strange color, it is actually fresh enough for the local people to drink.
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