Brazil is a large and beautiful country with plenty to offer cyclists, as Helton Moraes showed Outside Up North readers a couple weeks back. Fellow Brazilian Marcos Netto has done a fair bit of touring rough roads through the countryside there, too, and has graciously agreed to allow us to reprint a few photos from his week-long 2008 tour in the mountainous Campos de Cima da Serra. Check out this 22-miles-long road, which Marcos and his companion Anderson rode for an hour in cold, rain, wind:

 

 
Not all was misery, though. Here’s Marcos cooling off in the Rio Grande do Sul:

 

 
The cyclists enjoyed beautiful vistas:

 

 
And the locals were personable, too:

 

 
Visit Marcos’ journal of his bicycle tour to see a lot more photos. If you can’t read Portugese, go to Google’s Language Tools page, insert Marcos web address (www.marcosnetto.com.br/bike/serramar2008.htm) into the “Translate a web page” field, select “Portuguese” in the scrolling language list, then click the “translate” button. You won’t get a very good translation—in fact, it’s rather humorous in places—but you’ll be able to follow Marcos’ entertaining description of his and Anderson’s journey. Next summer, Marcos plans to return to the same region, but this time with his new Surly Long Haul Trucker. Read about his most recent LHT tour and see photos in another journal entry.

 

 
Thanks go out to Marcos Netto for showing us all a bit more of Brazil. Sure would like to see the country myself from the saddle of my LHT!

 
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