Hello walkers and friends!
A walk through the Ibirapuera park in Brazil
Today a new walk, but a walk that is not new, but rather one of those walks that we take when we visit different places, walking or traveling, isn't it almost the same thing?
And a walk through nature is always most inspiring, we breathe fresh air, enjoy the views and feel more connected and happy under the warm sun, we even smile more.
So I join once again the #WednesdayWalk community challenge hosted by @tattoodjay and if I understand correctly, also the “Make Me Smile” challenge hosted by @elizacheng :) I hope that after seeing such a landscape many will smile. Here we go.
Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil one more time, but this time not the city itself, but rather we discover the green heart of a great asphalt metropolis, a tide of gigantic buildings that seems to have no end, São Paulo, but inside there also breathes nature, and the truth it is that a space like this is needed, green, pure and alive, to get out of the urban chaos without leaving the city.
And during my time there, among the poorly made sidewalks, I felt that I needed to relax and I discovered that the most important park in the city was very close. Ibirapuera park.
As soon as we enter, giant trees welcome us, people who walk or run along the different paths, and it is a matter of choosing one or the other path to discover that bubble of green life that now surrounds us.
The most striking thing is the internal lake, bigger than it seems and with many animals that seem oblivious to all the traffic and rhythm that the city seems to continue carrying out there. We can see swans, ducks and many fish in those calm waters, and we remain calm, looking from the shore, and crossing a bridge. Suddenly we lose almost all vision of the skyscrapers and it seems that we are very far away.
All green, leafy and with the calm waters of the lake, it seems the image of a painting, are we really still in one of the most populated and largest cities?
We look from different perspectives and there on the horizon they continue, the present city continues, waiting for our return.
But we continue walking, strolling and also discovering incredible buildings inside, but different, small white modern white design buildings, some designed by the famous Brazilian architect Niemeyer, who has carried out so many iconic works in the country. And inside they house different exhibitions (such as the one on the human body). Also on the route we come across some more, scattered among the vegetation, some other museum or place for events... And even an obelisk, I guess as a monument of tribute of some historical moment.
Everything in harmony, despite the difference, nothing out of place. And life goes on, people forget, take a deep breath and de-stress. A place like this is needed.
But time passes, it is running out and we have to leave, when we leave we perceive in the surroundings again that we are in a city, tall buildings, with modern glass facades, mixed with electric cables and other older buildings that do not seem to have meaning in the same space. Cars also seem from another era, but the area is quiet, I realized that I was very close, too close for not having discovered before this immense park that I was so longing for.
I return with the same calm, with the same leisurely, deep and joyful rhythm with which I toured the Ibirapuera Park, but I keep looking around and I see a sticker on the window of a van with the quote: "Never give up". (Jamais se dê por vencido).
It is true, when we least expect it we find a small green paradise in the middle of the city and we smile.
Thanks for reading! Have a bright and nice day.
Happy Wednesday!
