Questão de Inglês — Interpretação de Textos (Understanding) — Avança SP 2026

Lençóis Maranhenses looks like a desert, but 

it's alive with shimmering pools, remote 

villages and ancient paths that only local 

guides know how to read.   

I was  at  least  20  steps  behind  my  group  –  and  another 30 behind our guide – when he suddenly  stopped,  checked  his  watch  and  tilted  his  face  toward the sky, as if taking cues from the Sun. 

"We must be lost," I thought. Smooth, pale slopes  rose and  fell  in every  direction,  with  glistening  teal  pools  woven  between  them.  It  was  a  landscape  with  no  obvious  beginning  or  end.  Then,  as  if  reassured,  our  guide  carried  on,  following a trail only he could see. 

My three  friends and I were a  few hours into a  three-day  trek  across  Lençóis  Maranhenses  National  Park,  a  humbling  expanse  of  sand  in  north-eastern Brazil,  and  I  had  already  lost  all  sense of direction. I walked in silence, listening  to  the  wind,  the  rippling  water,  the  sand  crunching beneath my feet. 

With each step, I sank a few centimetres, forcing  my  foot  to  work  twice  as  hard.  I  kept  falling  behind, switching from flip-flops to water shoes  and finally bare feet as the sand shifted from soft  powder to a rock-hard surface baking in the heat. 

A  friend  back  home  had  done  a  similar  trek;  "You'll  feel  bones  you  never  knew  existed  in  your  feet,"  they'd  warned.  I  was  starting  to  believe them.   

BBC News. Brazil’s lagoon-filled desert you can hike  barefoot. BBC Travel, 12 dez. 2025.

Disponível em:  https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251212-brazils-lagoon- filled-desert-you-can-hike-barefoot.