Category Archives: International Experience
A day in Sao Paulo
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows Day two with our guide was a little slow. We started out exploring the natural areas behind the Museum Paulista. They are full of native Brazilian trees and tropical plants along with lots of exercise … Continue reading
Sao Paulo Botanical Garden
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows We met our tour guide at 9am today and set out for Sao Paulo Botanical Garden to walk around for a couple hours. Lindsey had tried, tried, and tried once again to make contact with … Continue reading
Rio and Sitio Roberto Burle Marx
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows 9am sharp and we are out the door with our guide Gerardo. Our destination today is the Sitio Roberto Burle Marx, but first Gerardo is taking us on a whirlwind tour of the city of … Continue reading
Rio Botanical Garden
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows Welcomed by the ‘tropical water’, we landed in state capitol Rio de Jeneiro, the third stop of our entire journey. After breakfast at the hotel, the first year fellows headed to the Rio de Janeiro … Continue reading
Inhotim
Photography by: Longwood Graduate Fellows Our day began with an early pick up at the hotel by our very personable tour guide Luciana. On the drive to Inhotim she told us about Belo Horizonte’s history and helped us with some … Continue reading
The Regal Victoria
Photography: Longwood Graduate Fellows The familiar knocking wake-up call came at 5:45am this morning and once again we put on clothes, life-jackets, sunglasses, shoes and promptly hopped in the canoes. This morning we were only going a short distance over to … Continue reading
The Amazon (Continued)
Photography: Longwood Graduate Students With the bell ringing, we got up at 5:30 am and started an morning exploration of Rio Negro rainforest. The mysterious journey of the plants and animal kingdom started along the bank of creek. Although it … Continue reading
Brazil Blog Day 1 & 2
Early Tuesday January 8, the first year Longwood Graduates and chaperones, David and Lori, kicked off our long awaited trip to Brazil. After meeting at the airport in Miami, we flew, without a hitch, to Manaus, Amazones, Brazil. Continue reading
Cibodas Botanical Garden and Taman Bunga Nusantara
(written by Wonsoon Park, photographs by Abby Johnson) How nice it has been for us to finally meet the people who we have been longing to meet while preparing for this trip. Eka was the one of those people that … Continue reading
Mt. Gede-Pangrango National Park
(written by Tom Brightman, photographs by Martin Smit and Tom Brightman) Today was a study in contrasts—between the stark reminders of the burgeoning Indonesian population (now 14 million strong in the Jakarta area), the steep slope deforestation for tea plantations, … Continue reading
