Our jewels
During a year we have been in several magical places, but what we saw in Plated Adamantine returned to leave us without breathing almost, embobados and incredulous, it surpassed our expectations and it entered top 15 of the places more beautiful directly than we have seen in this return the world. Taste not to make lists but often we spoke of which little by little we go being more difficult to make an impression, by everything what we have had the luck to see and I believe that it is good for giving to understand the made an impression thing that we were.
Another one of the surprises that we took was that from that place that seemed to us so supernatural, so from scene of “After the green heart”, not one word in our dear Lonely Planet did not come. Yes that speaks of the Adamantine Plated one, national Park located in the state of Bay, to 300Km to the interior of Salvador, but only of his North part, and the park, like everything here in Brazil, is enormous, and in his South part it was where we discovered our jewels.
In the north it is the city of Lençois of which is spoken in several guides, “websites”, and tourism offices since one considers the departure front door to the park and point to visit the “Cachoeira it gives Fumaça”, apparently a cascade of 420 ms of height, in his fall the water is let take by the wind creating a called nebula of “Fumaça”.
With our guide in means of the tube
Intrigued by a photo that we saw in the menu of a bar of Sao Paulo, Charly made a search in Internet and we decided to leave of side the north of the park and to go to Ibicoara in the South zone. Of we would have access to the “Cachoeira there gives Fumaçinha” and “Or to Buracão” (the hole).
Ibicoara is a small town, extremely calm, with inns by 9 reais the night (3 Euros) and dinners by similar price. They have two “agencies of guides” since it is obligatory to enter the park with guide, in” Or Tiny beast do Mato " a young person rastas with Brazilian a difficult one to understand explained to us that the park is 32km and that of a long walk of 4h it takes to you there until the Fumacinha and another one of half an hour until Or Buracão.
We contract the excursions and also a car so that it took (that to us was most expensive) and on the following day to 5 in the morning we were called on morning call to go to Fumacinha.
We begin the excursion towards the 7, we walked by I milk of the river that runs by a tuna tube, little by little this it is narrowed. Giving to stone jumps in stone and some times by means of the sylvan vegetation we went away approaching the Fumacinha. A jump badly calibrated of Charly took to occur a dip to him of videos of first, pity that (not yet because) was not recording since it was seen come.
Chillier we arrived until the end of the tube, the walls of this were joined until making it disappear before leaving to a small lake and a spectacular cascade with three different levels.
To the so narrow being the light did not penetrate in the morning in the place to 11, we were under the cascade, extasiados, resting, eating something, observing the imperceptible changes of light, feeling the humidity and the cold in the skin, seeing the green one of moss to change of tone with the light of the sun, the lake to illuminate and the sun to take leave again of that magical place, we were single and we enjoyed the vision during a pair of hours before returning towards the car with 4 h more of long walk with some parón between means to bathe in red waters of the river, Apparently those waters contain much organic matter and they adopt that reddish tone besides producing that somewhat disagreeable foam, but the fresh water we did not despise it!
When arriving at the smallest town that there is to the entrance of the Park we took one and later another one and soon another one and soon the “saidera” that never is the last one, frozen beer, we were thirsty and also thirsty of conversation with the villagers to whom we convinced that they had to promote a little that gorgeous place that was almost a secret, some you will say that better thus, and we did not speak to mount a Benidorm but to remove a little more from benefit, one sees that in two months éramos the first tourists who necesitá we go the car of the driver who took (others to us come in his own car but really she is very little).
But when one thinks that it has seen tuna more leaves a new sun, awakes a new day and you mount in the same car that returns to take to you to the entrance of the park, litters about 45 minutes until arriving at estrechíssimo congosto through which it passes a river. The guide gives life-guards to us and she says to us that there is to cross swimming, we put in the water while he takes to the cameras doing a small scaling to us until crossing congosto in dry. After swimming about 70 meters congosto is abre abruptly leaving before us a circumference of 200m of diameter with a tremendous cascade of 90 meters of stop to our right.
the vision us emmudeció, the light entered with force “buracão” and when I watched my companions these had a smile of extreme happiness in the face.
We bathed in the lake, we crossed after the powerful cascade and we sent ourselves through its waters in a sensation gave back that me to the childhood. We were not wanted to go but the best thing is than when returning the guide made us happen through a place by where she saw the hole but this time from above, the frightful cascade associated to the vertigo sensation still more gave to be able if she fits to that place that was recorded in our retina for always.
Unfortunately we could not know more the Plated one but we are sure that still hide many secrets… intention to discover them to you!
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writing by Begoña Camus, February 19, 2009
besides informing on impressive places teneis the deference to think about all. Thanks for the put put ones and “robbing”. Stays very, very handsome and with so adventurous appearance… It pulls ahead, to continue enjoying.
(It seems that rumba has come stopping, no? that good that they estan dedicating but short time to him to his followers.)