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It´s Raining In Paradise

Written by on March 8, 2009 – 4:00 pm9 Comments
After The Rain...

After The Rain…

It was rain­ing the day we vis­ited the Cachoeira Do Tobogã. What we did not know is that while we were hav­ing fun in the jun­gle, Paraty, the city where we were spend­ing the Car­ni­val, was get­ting flooded.

By the time we came back from the water­falls, it was already 5:00 pm and it had likely been rain­ing for a cou­ple of hours. The bus sta­tion was okay, but as we took the hos­tel street, we stepped in the water, knee-deep. We man­aged to get back to the hos­tel (barefeet) where we learned Paraty floods quite often. The his­tor­i­cal cen­ter floods at every tide (seri­ously!), and the dis­trict where we lived is below sea level, so it was even worse. Noth­ing to be wor­ried about, but quite a pain to nav­i­gate the street when the water reaches your butt (and I swear, I´m pretty tall!).

The next day, the water left on the pave­ment offered beau­ti­ful reflec­tions of the buildings.

It´s Raining Hard...

It´s Rain­ing Hard…

Oh Oh... Seems Like We Have A Flood!

Oh Oh… Seems Like We Have A Flood!

Stranded In The Waters!

Stranded In The Waters!

Paraty After The Flood At Night

Paraty After The Flood At Night

Flooded Streets

Flooded Streets

Reflections In The Water

Reflec­tions In The Water

By The Church

By The Church

Our Hostel

Our Hos­tel

Related posts:

  1. Cachoeira Do Tobogã
  2. Colo­nial Paraty
  3. Beau­ti­ful Beaches Of Brazil
  4. Samba De Janeiro!
  5. Cataratas Do Iguaçu (Brazil Side)

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9 Comments »

  • Zhu says:

    @RennyBA — Thank you! S day of rain, I don´t mind, but the flood sus­prised me.

    @Agnes — Per­fecto maybe? I lost my Span­ish to Portuguese!

    @Tulsa Gen­tle­man — It´s not too often appar­ently, or at least not as much. Peo­ple were a bit freaked out!

    @barbara — It was a lot of water, for sure! But it´s part of the expe­ri­ence ;-)

    @Linguist-in-Waiting — It reminded me of HK dur­ing typhoon season!

  • Max Coutinho says:

    Hey Zhu,

    Minha nossa…look at that! If I had been there the water would have reached my neck LOL LOL I am petite!

    Loved the reflec­tion of the church on the water…so beautiful!

    I am lov­ing your adventures!

    Adeus!

  • Seraphine says:

    haha. its funny how peo­ple build things where it floods. i think its bet­ter to leave the land as farm­land or parks or some­thing.
    but it looks like you had fun. i love the pic of the peo­ple stand­ing in the doorway.

  • Bluefish says:

    It’s rain­ing man! Don’t you want to sing that song when it rains.

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