A view from the bus window

What does Brazil actually look like? I don't know either. I've only been to 2 small states in the Southeast region. One would think that at least Rio de Janeiro is known, and yes, Sugarloaf Mountain and Copacabana look just like they do on postcards. What I actually remember the most is the amount of concrete and the beautiful people on the streets. When you leave the metropolis, you first see the highways that soon wind through the valleys of a medium mountain ridge. The hills are often covered with short, rough grass. From the road, you can often catch a glimpse of what lies beneath, an orange-brown soil that is probably already sedimented in some places. When it gets flatter, it becomes even more noticeable that there is a lack of trees here. I suspect that the area has been cleared by fire over the past 200 years. And at the latest, when one of these huge freight trains appears, you think that the region could actually be a greener version of the US West. The South American version, however, has these old Mercedes trucks with round hood and VW Beetles, which in the USA are probably only available as vintage cars.