The Soap Box… My Point of View! “Another Way of Life” (Part 1 of 2)

One of my favorite places to travel in the world is Brazil. I am always fascinated with its rich culture, beaches, and historical beauty of architect, landscape and people. Perhaps what the average person doesn’t know is that there is so much more to most places than what syndicated news, social media or television will ever show or tell… such as it is with Brazil.

Our journey this time took us to about an eight-hour drive outside of the hustle and bustle of the metropolis of the state Sao Paulo, (Brazil’s capitol, and the 5^th largest city in the world) to a small isolated quilombo. (Quilombo’s are settlements and rural communities founded by African taken as slaves of the transatlantic slave trade, who escaped from their captors and fled to dense mountainous jungles for refuge). It was before Brazil abolished slavery in 1888 that these village-like communities were strategically established by the Africans and to date, over 400 years later there are at least 3500 known quilombos yet existing throughout the country.