Sunday, April 21, 2013

Day 212 Fortaleza, Brazil

We arrived outside Fortaleza early this morning only to be put in a holding pattern for an hour because the Brazilian’s weren’t ready for us….  Oh well, you get used to stuff like this.  Once we docked, we were joined by Ed & Becky and we took the first shuttle to town.  It dropped us off at the old jail which has been converted into a handicraft market.  We left that for later and headed out exploring to town a little.  We checked out the beautiful cathedral and went on from there to the central market.  This place was huge, going up several levels.  Since it was Sunday and a holiday to boot, not much else was open.  We walked out to the coast to go to the English Bridge which we discovered after a long walk that it was closed for safety reasons.  We headed back to the craft market, checked out the stores and called it a day.  It was so unbelievably hot that we had no more desire to explore Fortaleza….  Not a great place to visit anyway. 

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