Lençois
The Camping Lumiar is on the right side of the church at Lençois
with all the conveniences, water, showers, electricity, WiFi…
En route BR-#020
On Tuesday, May 31 I did very not desired a long road. Alas I had
not found a bivouac. Indeed in Brazil all the properties are
enclosed. I stopped on a vast quay level in front of a company with
silos. I asked the guard for the permission of bivouac. He gave me
his authorization by specifying that there was in a building,
toilets and a shower, hot. Ah these Brazilian as it is attentive for
the truck drivers.
Vale da Lua
The way from the BR-#020 to Sao Jorge comprises a section of
approximately 60km of track under work. Moreover I made a detour to
Campos Belos to fill the tank with diesel fuel before going to the
Valley of the Moon. The carpark of Vale da Lua is inclined, I put
the truck at bottom to avoid my fall in the night…
Vale da Lua, click the picture
On Thursday, June 2d after lunching I undertook the visit of the
valley of the Moon traversing approximately 1.2 km in a little more
than one hour. The landscape was fairy-like, a torrent curving in
volcanic rocks.
Brasilia
On Friday, June 3rd after a peaceful road I arrived at the Youth
Hostel of Brasilia around 14:40 to bivouac on a vast ground with
drinking water, toilets and showers as well as electricity and a
Wi-Fi connection. I remained three days until Monday, June 6th there.
Brasilia is at the altitude of 1135m, given by GPS. Bus 142 has a stop
in front of the Youth Hostel to go to downtown in 15
minutes.
Brasilia Bird's-eye view, click the Picture
Every Saturday morning I took bus 143
at 8 hours. The city desired by
President Kubitschek was built in the middle of nowhere in three
years by the town planner Lucio Costa and the talented architect
Oscar Niemeyer. The plan of the city is conceived like the fuselage
of a plane with wings and a cockpit where the esplanade of the
ministries is. Along this processional way, Via Sacra, of five
kilometers are distributed monuments to the concrete architecture
according to the precepts of Le Corbusier. While arriving at the
station of the buses I moved towards the TV Tower for Bird's-eye
View on the city.
Brasilia Culural Complex of the Republic, click
the picture
Then while reconsidering my steps passing the bus station I visited
Cultural Complex of the Republic. I made the dead end on the Library
to devote me to Museu Nacional, a dome of a half-sphere being
reflected in a lake. Three exhibits held my attention, sculptures
by Patrica Calisto, then surrealist photographs by French
Jean-François Rauzier and especially of boards devoted to the
construction of the Cathedral of Brasilia and its canopy by
French-Brazilian Marianne Peretti who created other canopies for buildings of Brasilia.
Brasilia Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora,
click the picture
Finally it was Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora and its
splendid canopy. But the building is all except a place of worship
and meditation. I carried out a video of the canopy. Harassed I
returned around 3 p.m. to the Youth Hostel to transcribe my impressions by
publishing photos on my website
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| Canopy of the Cathedral of Brasilia |
On Sunday, June 5th after a fairy-like sunrise I took again the bus
at 8 a.m. to return to complete my visit of Brasilia with the
certainty not to have all explored. While walking on towards
Congresso Nacional I saw in a group of joggers a demonstrator
holding up a coffin for Dilma Rousseff president of Brazil
compromised in the scandal of Petrobras.
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| Sunrise at Youth Hostel |
View on the way to Congresso Nacional |
Brasilia Congresso Nacional, click the picture
I visited in a little more than one hour Congresso Nacional with a
group of Brazilian. Puff, I understood nothing with the Portuguese
comments. Brazil is a federal state of 27 states having each one
three representatives in the senate. The congress has 513 deputies.
My critical spirit noticed that in the two rooms, congress and
senate, a crucifix was above the President's armchair in each room.
I framed it to put it forward. The Brazilian Socialists do not
disavow their Christian roots like the French Socialists!
Brasilia Autres bâtiments, click pictures
On the esplanade of Conresso Nacional many buildings have a
resolutely modern architecture. A mention for Tancredo Neves with a
canopy by Marianne Peretti and the bird of Freedom to the external
one.
Brasilia Santuario Dom Bosco, click the picture
My visit was completed with the canopy of Santuario Dom Bosco whose
cobalt blue color floods the nave. Alas so much the photos than the
video do not give the atmosphere of plenitude and meditation thus
suggested.
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| Canopy of Santuario Dom Bosco |
Brasilia two owls, click the pictures
