| Day 1. (Sun) - Fortaleza / City Tour + Cumbuco. |
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Morning visit to the city including: the coast road with the Iracema Meireles and do Futuro beaches; the Art and Popular Culture Museum, Fortaleza Nossa Senhora (XVII Century), the José de Alencar Theatre and the Tourism Centre, where it is not possible to resist the purchase of local artisan craft in wood, ceramic, and “fillet” and “labyrinth” lace work. The principal attraction of the Cumbuco beach is its dunes with their fine white sand. Here everybody has a buggy trip and goes esquibunda, Ceará’s most popular sport, where one boards - seated or standing - down the dunes. The buggy trips can be “with or without excitement”. |
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| Day 2. (Mon) – Fortaleza / Canindé / Quixadá |
| Morning trip to Canindé. Northeasterners from many states go to Canindé, the second world biggest devotion center to Saint Francisco. This strong country man attaches faith and pilgrimages to worship Saint Francisco. Night in Urucum Hill. In Quixadá, the combination of thermals and winds is favorable for hang-gliding. |
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| Day 3. (Tues) – Quixadá |
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On the hinterland, the caating vegetation and rocky formations are clearly seen. The Monumental Valley Stands out in this environment, between Quixadá and Quixeramobim, bisides caves, monoliths and mountains. Some with odd shapes like the chicken shaped stone in Quixadá. The hinterland captivates for its strong people and their beautiful simplicity. |
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| Day 4. (Weds) – Quixadá / Quixeramobim |
| Morning visit the “Letreiro” Stone, with a great arqueological value and its rupestrian writings. Rupestrian paitings show how our ancestors lived: hunts, sexual orgies, unknown animals and whales show that not onlm our customs, but also the landscape have changed greatly. |
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| Day 5. (Thurs) – Quixadá / Cotton Route |
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Morning journey through the cotton route. Ceará is one of most important textile center in the world. Cotton is traditionally important crops in Ceará. Industry has grown rapidly with the development os small communities subsidized and producing especially cotton. The State most important agricultural area cultivating cotton in Ceará |
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| Day 6. (Fri) – Dinosaurs Valley / Juazeiro do Norte. |
| Morning departure for the shores of the “Shallow Lake”, where the world’s dinosaurs lived 120 million years ago. In the Valley of the Dinosaurs, found in the municipality of Sousa, there exist the famous dinosaur footprints encrusted in the ground and it is considered one of the most important pre-historic sites in the world. The passage of these animals through the Paraiban wilderness, millions of years ago, awakes the interest of both Brazilian and foreign scientists and attracts, as well, many visitors. The on to Cariri. Region of big natural and cultural wealth. |
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| Day 7. (Sat) – Juazeiro do Norte |
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After breakfast a trip to the Palaeontological Museum in Santana do Cariri. Once, millions of years ago, covered by the sea, the Araripe ridge is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country. The museum holds more than 700 fossils of fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians and vegetation, some preserved by the arid soil of the Northeast for more than 100 million years. |
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| Day 8. (Sun) – Juazeiro do Norte |
| Father Cícero Romão Batista, from the XIX and XX centuries, is the famous religious name to be heard here in the Northeast. After having supposedly worked a miracle, he was banned from saying Mass. When Juazeiro became a city, he was the first Mayor. After his death in 1934, he became a kind of popular Saint. We will see his statue, 25 metres high with an 8-metre base in the hill garden. On the Day of the Pilgrim, which precedes All Soul’s Day, more than 500,000 people gather here. We will visit the chapel of N Sra do Perpétuo Socorro (1908), where Father Cicero’s tomb is, in Praça Socorro (Socorro Square), and the main church of N Sra dos Dores (1887) in Praça dos Romeiros (Pilgrim’s Square). The Father Cicero Memorial Museum has a collection of objects, paintings and photographs from the life of this Holy person. Mannequins recreating scenes from his life can be found in the Vivo Padre Cicero Museum, where we will also find a salon with offerings to the saint. |
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