After our wonderful time in Rio, we bussed it to a small colonial town called Ouro Preto which means Black Gold in Portuguese. We got upgraded to nice room overlooking the beautiful churches and we met several interesting people from Peru and Honduras also visiting the area.There is a lot of history in this town as it had the first major rebellion against Portugal for Brazilian Independence. It failed but paved the way for the future. They mined a ton of Gold here back in the day and you can still go tour the mines today. We visited several interesting museums and had fun wandering down the cobblestone streets and taking in all of the old churches.
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