my tour troup :). the eldest boy, at the back, became my guide into the endless vastness of the lencois sand dunes. i paid him the equivalent of something like 20 dollars, which in the local economy is a small fortune, something an adult earns over an entire month. for that i got a million moments of pure wonderment as i discovered the intense beauty of pristine sandunes and natural lakes that form from rain water that falls within the sand valleys between december and june of every year. 

 

os brasileiros - brazilians are a bit of many things, a bit of indegenous cultures, a bit of african cultures, a bit of european cultures, and in many places even a bit of asian cultures. you can see the genetic contributions in the fascinating and sometimes highly captivating adjoining characteristics, the light eyes and dark skin, the blond hair and broad bone structures.