Curitiba

It was such a noisy at the room the whole night. All the candidates were so nervous and anxious that they couldn’t sleep at all. All the time the door was being opened and shut. It was big mess ‘til the candidates leave for the exams. After such a mess and confusion, I could sleep no more. I was fully awake and it was 7am. Once I cannot sleep, I decided to enjoy the day. It was a bright shining Sunday morning. I took a cold shower and went to living room to have my breakfast. On my way to the kitchen I saw a sign on the wall.

Love more. Kiss much more. Cry with desire. Give away generously. Make mistakes. Do what fright you the most. Scream! Harmonise more. Care less.

 On Sundays morning Curitiba has such a traditional open fair at ‘Largo da Ordem’ place. It was quite early, so I decided to go to the Oscar Niemeyer museum which was in the opposite direction, a grove aside the museum and then come back to city centre to walk around the Largo da Ordem fair and do some sightseeing.

A dodger car on my way to museum

 Eye Museum or Oscar Niemeyer Museum is where display all works Niemeyer designed around the world. He is a famous architect. He designed Brasília, capital of Brazil.

Eye museum or Oscar Niemeyer museum 

This thing of wanting to be exactly what we are, still going to take us further. Just regret once. (Inside the Museum)

This life is a journey, it's a pity I be here just as a passanger. I do not discuss with the destiny. What appears to do, I'm in. (Inside the Museum) 

 I passed through the grove João Paulo II and went back to hostel to have another breakfast, drink some water and go to the fair, once the hostel was on my way.

The Largo da Ordem fair sells from handcrafts to candies. All sort of typical provisions were found in this fair. Typical food, candies, drinks, clothes, shoes etc. Everything a good fair has. On this day, this fair also had a motorcycle club meeting and old cars exposition. The fair is surrounded by good restaurants and cafés.

Old Cars exhibition

The Largo da Ordem fair seeing from up side

 Wandering through the fair I found a Mosque. 

The mosque Iman Ali in Curitiba

 Of course I went inside. ‘Salam Maleico’ someone welcomed me. Maleico salam I replied. Then the guy started to talk with me in Arabic. ‘Hey mate, I’m Brazilian.’ ‘Sorry, I thought you were Arabian.’ And then this guy told me the whole story about Islamism and many complicated names that I already forgot. I appreciated his kindness and I left, no before taking a photo in “Mecca”.

Inside the mosque. Mecca in South Arabia. The holy place where all islamic people pray facing for

 After eating some typical food at the fair, I kept my sightseeing. I went to Curitiba Cathedral (Catedral Basílica Menor de Nossa Senhora da Luz de Curitiba is how the Cathedral is named) and I saw a different way of sleeping.

Cathedral Basílica Menor de Nossa Senhora da Luz de Curitiba

For those ones who keep insisting to drink, be careful. You might sleep on this position sooner or later

 I wandered for the whole city for few days, so I had time to wander around and to chill out watching movies and going for drinks.

The following pics show a bit about what I have done in Curitiba city, besides give you some notion about this lovely city.

Curitiba Botanical Graden is good for picnics, chilling out, reading, play cards or simply wandering.

Curitiba Botanical Garden

Curitiba Botanical Garden from a different view

 Tanguá Park is quite big park. Also good for picnics, chilling out, reading, play cards or simply wandering. But when I went there 70% of the park was crowded with cars playing loud songs.

Tanguá Park

Tanguá Park seeing from the mansion

Tanguá Park seeing from down side

 The Wire Opera House is used for proms, concerts, plays and special announcements.

Wire Opera House

 The German Grove is special. It's a small grove inside the city, but the trees are so high that the treetops hide the sun and insulate the sound. It's good for a slow walk and chat with a friend. It seems you're farway from the city. Oh yes, on the top there's a German Café.

Entrance from German Grove

Going up on the German Grove

Sight from Curitiba on the top of the German Grove

 Barigui Park is another huge park. Very good for picnics, running, skating, playing, chilling out or whatever you want to do outdoors. Along the lake you find few dock restaurants. Good for a beer during the day or a romantic dinner at night.

Barigui Park

 You can go up the Telepar Tower to have a nice view from the city.

Telepar Tower

 The Ukrainian Memorial is beautiful. But the day I went there was going on a footage and I wasn't able to get inside the Memorial. Such a shame.
The Tingui Park is algo good for running, relaxing, reading, biking, picnics and meditation.

Ukrainian Memorial at Tingui Park

Parana University

P.s.: On Sundays all buses cost 1 real. Good option to move around.

To be continued...