over the Rainbow
somewhere over the rainbows, blue birds fly...fly on little wing...
A weird storm...
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 14 May 2014 | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
I escape in the wintertime to search the summer.. i want to live another life....i escape from the cliches of money-work-taxes... my spirit and my senses want it. How did i end up here?
Heart of Brasil, National Park Chapada de Veadeiros, great espace surrounded by the infinity.... Me and Kate we're coming from Bahia with his allucinated plateaus....i've met Kate in Salvador, we decided to travel together....good vibrations . Gardens dedicated to next Buddha, Maytreya, unbelievable in Brasil, ....here in an unknown National Park..there's an amazing connection! Moreover, gorgeous canyons in the middle of the tropics, weird geological rocks of different eras, screaming monkeys... We arrive in the village of Sao Joao, and we find a guide to visit the park . We met Flaviano, a brasilian "macho", he comes from Fortaleza, north . He opened a restaurant, two hours from Brasilia. This is not the most famous area of Brazil, there's just national tourism.
We start walking and quickly we enter in the beginning of the forest and Flaviano says that soon we'll have to cross a small river he said, we don't need to swim. I have a strange sensation, and when i look to the sky, clouds are getting thicker .... It sounds like there's a little storm coming, i tell them, but they don't care. We arrive beside the Rio Negro, it's raining stormy....Flaviano says there's no problem to cross, even if the running water is growing . He is not a guide, i realize it, and i tell to kate, she’s refusing me and she is kind of “hypnotized” ....Flaviano is almost on the other side when is brought away from the running water! Luckily he grabs a branch in the water and he's safe! Suddenly, i convinced Kate is crazy to cross! How stubborn are women, she dived to reach Flaviano and....the branch of the same tree saved her.! They could very easily drowned if they didn't have that tree and instinct..! I saw her almost disappeared...a billion of emotions crossed me at the same speed of water ...
Life, love, nature and violence together like in the movies.. I'm aware about the the name of the gardens we saw in the Park....Maytreya...the impermanence of everything…
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