PETAR

Parque Turístico Estadual do Alto Ribeiro, more known as PETAR, is a touristic and educational park with more than 300 caves. In this fieldtrip, we studied and learned not only about the school content, but about society, sustainability, and different perspectives of life.

Here you will see everything about our field trip and what we experienced. First we visited the famous "Quilombo Ivaporunduva" and learned with the people of the quilombo about cooking, fishing and hunting. They have all this amazing knowledge to spread to the world. In this trip, we understood stories and all the difficulties that this quilombo needed to resist and face in the racist society of that time.

On the second day, we went to the caves: Água Suja and Santana. There we learned about cave formation, luminescence, about the animals that live there and even music with speleothems. All of those activities made us understand that caves are really important for climate, animals and even humans. It also helped us understand that nature is a really impressive thing and can make really big things in a long time period.

On the last day we went to the “campo primitivo” in which we needed to make fire and throw spears, this activity was really cool and expanded not only our knowledge but also our motor skills, after all that we got to Caverna do Diabo, in which we learned about how humans can destroy things for touristic activities, this reflection made a dilemma on our group, because this is the only cave that older and deficient people can enjoy, but for this it is needed to destroy the natural cave.

This field study made us think about many things, and helped us to understand that we have many things to learn in our lives. We learned about human behaviour and perspective, we also learned about culture, and different life perspectives, describing this trip in one word, perspectives, because we learned about many ways of understanding and seeing the world, starting with a quilombola native going through a bat’s life and finishing with a primitive man that hunted gathered and made fire with his own hands