Monday, 30 March 2009



An old man's hat and an old woman's kitchen.

Sunday, 29 March 2009

The joys of countryside



Drinking fresh water from a well, running in a big garden in the middle of all the green and eating cacao fruit fresh from the tree amidst yam plants.

Wax jambu tree in bloom



Wax jambu (or water roseapple, syzygium jambolana) has wonderful pink flowers that cover the ground underneath the tree.

Just outside the city


Sunday, 22 March 2009








In Lucas' words: "this flower looks like a princess ready to dance."

Monday, 16 March 2009

Pipoca doce com chocolate


Sweet popcorn with chocolate syrup, oh my :)

Thursday, 5 March 2009

Unknown beauty




I still don't know the name of this flower although it grows on our front yard.

Monday, 2 March 2009

The mall in Ji-Paraná

The only really cool thing about it were the elevators (you have to realise we live in the bushes where there are no elevators...).

However the mall itself was really small; just one corridor in each floor.

And most of the shops were closed, empty or being renovated. So there were only a few shops actually functioning in each floor.

Ji-Paraná



It's so much bigger than our town! In the last picture on the right the shopping mall (which actually was a bit of a dissapointment...).

Sunday, 1 March 2009

Mororó flooding again

- That's a lot of water...
- How do people get home?
This is how they get home...