Tiredentes

From Petropolis to Tiredentes it was a four hour bus ride round and round the bends! It s years since I have felt ill on a bus, but I was in a poor shape when we arrived half way to Tiredentes to stay the night in Soa Joa, not much to see there so we took a taxi a few Kms up the road to the first of the colonial mining towns of  Tiredentes. The early colonials were after gold, but in Tiredentes there wasn't mush, but the town was very old and beautifully restored.

The town square was shady and if you wanted you could take a ride in the cart,

 The biggest of some 10 churches was up the top of a very steep cobbled road . Inside was covered in gold, but pictures were forbidden. Why we didn't know.

 But we traced our way down the cobbled street to listen to the gold laden stream run under the 15th century bridge.

I talked about cobble stones, but these were something else, and these giant stones were to become the norm!