After just four nights, the time has come to leave our little mountain retreat above Uribici. This has been a great way to start our trip, but we might have set the bar high as far as enjoyability. In addition to doing a little (too much) work, we also laid around reading in the hammocks, enjoyed our mornings from a deck overlooking the valley and caught a sunset from a parklike space with a glorious view. We found ourselves reverting to some of our old mountain ways up here in the mountains, like turning a 12 mile hike into almost 17 miles and winding up completely alone in an amazing place. This amazing place happened to be a waterfall where we lazed away a cool misty afternoon in the middle of a steamy hot day. We saw a part of Brazil that we haven't seen before, with tobacco farms and rural ways. Carol became a bit of an expert on the area, playing tour guide to visitors who wandered up our road looking for things to do. I imagine we will get back this way but you never know, life is short and there is so much to do. Whether we come back or not, it was "super vale a pena" as they say around here, and we are glad that we came.
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