Northeast Brazil and the Amazon
Come share the Seekins’ adventures as they present a slide show of their Brazilian travels this past summer.
The Seekins began and ended their trip in Salvador, Bahia State, the center of Afro-Brazilian culture and the original colonial capital. Their trip included several national parks, beach towns and cities rich in colonial Brazilian history as well as an Amazon Jungle lodge adventure.
The meeting starts at 7:30 pm at the San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.
In their usual style, Ladd and Gail travelled independently in Brazil and without a rigid schedule, booking their accommodations day-by-day. Public busses along with a couple of flights covered the long distances. Brazil is vast – about the same size as the lower 48 states of the USA. This year’s trip stretched across nearly half of the country. The Seekins had visited the south of Brazil on a previous trip.
Highlights of their trip included touring the caves and hiking the mountains of Chapada Diamantina National Park, visiting the sea turtle rescue station at Praia do Forte, beach and
dune-buggy adventuring at Natal and Jericoacoara, swimming with the dolphins at Praia da Pipa, cruising the river at Barreirinhas, walking through the unique dune and lake landscape of
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, exploring the Amazon rainforest, and strolling the cobbled colonial streets of Salvador, Recife, Olinda, São Luís, Alcântara, Belém and Manaus, cities that with a little imagination still exist partly in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
They ended their adventure with a few restful days at Morro de São Paulo, a rustic beach town on an island with no automobiles, goods being delivered to the shops and restaurants by porters with wheel barrows and the occasional mule train.
