“When we departed Minas Gerais for Goiás that day, we left the more developed Southeast for the wild Central West which used to be called Mato Grosso, or Dense Forest.  Dense forest it is no longer, but then a good part of Goiás was always a relatively treeless grassland called cerrado…” – To Belém & Back, p. 41

What follows are other images and quotes from the Belém roadtrip, some taken from the eBook’s parallel picture essay.  [please hover over images for captions/quotes]