Vila Velha State Park Day Trip: Sandstone Formations, Lagoa Dourada & Witmarsum Colony from Curitiba

You step off the bus into a wind that has been carving stone for millions of years. Around you, mushroomed pillars and rounded mesas of rust-colored sandstone rise like a miniature badlands, their contours smoothed by rain and time. The air smells faintly of wet earth and eucalyptus; the guide points to a crater rim and names the formation, while the park’s granite bones seem to dare visitors to walk every ridge and peer into hidden hollows.