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Station 8 - Rolândia

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Only 3 days until departure, and today was the last training before the trip. There was also talk about many little things, such as exchange of money, organization first trip, sockets and power in Brazil. So now everything really clear, so we charged last week by 1 clock to the bus and may take even repack suitcases.

And then there is still a fact sheet to the next station: Rolândia. The city is also young, for in 1932 bought the German tropical farmer Oswald Nixdorf and Hermann von Freeden fertile jungle of the British settlement company Parana Plantations Ltd.. and established for 400 German families, the settlement "Roland" or brasilianisiert "Rolândia." They chose this name in reference to their hometown of Bremen, whose patron saint, St. Roland. In 1934, then were the first houses, and today about 55,000 people live there project started.

Even today, agriculture is the largest economic factor. everything with coffee (cultivation, harvesting, roasting, sales, and in Bremen, the famous coffee Jacobs was established), today also raise corn, soybeans, planted wheat, sugarcane and oranges.

As for us:
Rolândia 1993 was our first stop, and the coffee roasting plant and the sugar cane into alcohol as a fuel-Umwandel factory were our destinations. And for the first gig of the tour, of course, everything had to be perfect, so even some of our guys put makeup on (see photo). Maintained and accommodated, we were then and we will once again by members of the dance group Red Cap.

info on the net:
Rolandia on Wikipedia
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolà ¢ NDIA

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Station 7 - Palotina

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Only 4 days until departure and the first bags are packed ready. Well the costume trunk can make themselves ready. Harder it is already there with the baby-box ... Today I want to introduce Palotina, as far as I can, because it is the first and only place on this trip that I was not.

Palotina lies in the far west in the State of Paraná about 300km away from the waterfalls of Iguacu. So we do in the late afternoon after visiting the cases also go until Palotina.

The city itself is very young, in 1940 the first settlement was built with 10 inhabitants in 1950, it had traveled 100 today there are about 35 600 inhabitants. Again, the main economic activity in agriculture, but Palotina also has a university where you can just study for the agricultural sector.

As for us:
The contact was only this year, when we had the dance group dance and love "as a guest in Erlangen. The group met for a day from Munich to make us a small workshop. We got it so good, not only because many of the guests were still talking German, so that we were also invited to Palotina.
Serli, the local group leader, has already promised me that will work with the housing and organizing everything, and we in West have only this station, it will probably be a lot of visitors from the surrounding communities.

More on the Net you can find, but it is only in Portuguese, so I you can not really recommend anything.

Today's picture was taken in 1993 and shows you the typical red soil of the region, especially beautiful in the rain. At that time there were in the rural areas a few paved roads within the villages, as the need to pay the residents of the street itself. I'm curious, how is it this time.