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Escaping the pretentiousness of the township, one glides up through refreshing alpine forests to the summit. Hovels line the road to the top; local black kids wave, smiling as we pass. From the peak one is immediately swept up in the grand vista of rolling grasslands and vast hulking bluffs spreading away as far as the eye can see. One imagines the first explorers here on horse back, these lands simply there for the taking. What must their first thoughts have been? I wanted to get on a horse and just ride away, sharing that freedom. Of course I didn’t. Instead we climbed back into the car and went for coffee in one of the ridiculous make-believe Swiss Chalets in the town.
Swiss style architecture at Campos do Jordan |