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By MonkeyBoy
August 22nd 2006

Surreal cities

South America » Brazil » Piauí » Piripiri » Sete Cidades National Park

View from atop Segunda Cidade
The rocks rise from the ground like an enormous, jumbled city of titanic anthills.

After the laziness of Jeri, I felt I needed to do something active and interesting, so I decided to pierce the interior of the scorchingly hot state of Piauí to go to Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades. Again, transportation was an issue. Our (me and a Swiss guy I met) ride bailed due to a broke car, so we thought we were stuck in Jeri. By chance I had talked with a man going up the coast in a Toyota (the name of any type of pick-up used to carry people and luggage to and from Jeri). We were able to [View Full Entry]

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