Fazendas em Joao Pinheiro

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Ok it´s time this got written. I´ve been staying in Joao Pinheiro now since 6th August, staying with Henrique (Brasilian I met while travelling and with whom I travelled for about 6 weeks in Bolivia and Peru, along with Leo) and his grandmother. Henrique´s family own farms and so I´ve really enjoyed myself a lot ¨working¨with Henrique, riding horses, feeding and playing with foals, watching cattle getting tagged, riding the range, and accompanying H on all the jobs he has to do around the town too.

Farms are called Funil and Chapadinha, there´s also another one belonging to H´s uncle called Fazentinha. H manages them all. Funil and Chapadinha were bought by H´s grandfather and worked by him. Funil is the oldest of them and was bought about 40 years ago. H´s lovely horse, Makako is kept on Funil. He´s very nice to ride, but I had more fun on the farm stallion last Thursday when we went out for about 4 hours to visit H´s friend. We came back in the dark which was a bit nerve-wracking as my horse stumbled quite a bit, I was thinking of pumas and wolves and all sorts of dangerous snakes but the only discomfort was horse stumbling about in dips and my face getting scratched by tree branches.

Must dash!

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Photos

Crazy Cathedral
During my tour of Brasilia

Tiago e Juliana
Henrique´s cousin and his girlfriend

Waterfall
Pity there aren´t any postcards of this

Another Waterfall
This one´s even better, apart from the anacondas

Sara e Florzinha
Last night nasty Florzinha ate all Henrique´s corn seeds he´d carefully brought back from Bolivia to plant...

Transporting cement and sand
Just after that photy 2 right rear tyres blew

Florzinha at the vet
Getting her jabs so she won´t contract Leishman´s disease

Tagging cattle(Jurassic Park noises)
some were really fierce

Different system
Of immobilising cattle, works very well though

Looking all innocent
Then they started the bellowing and roaring

Getting the crabs
Carropatos is what they´re called- ticks I reckon, but apparently they´re those crabby things. Some of you know what I mean ha ha

CUTE
Puppy was the biggest of all the 5