Furnas and Cozido

We drove out to a small town called Furnas and spent three days in the eastern part of the island. This area is well known for its steam vents, which were quite impressive. There is also a local dish, cozido, that is placed in bags inside of the steam vents. Dirt is piled on top and the cozido is cooked in the ground for a few hours. Cozido has various meats--sausage, chicken, pork, and beef--as well as potatoes, carrots and cabbage.






Putting the cozido in the ground


Cozido cooking in the ground


Our cozido dinner

As we traveled across the island, we kept seeing people and animals sitting and standing in truck beds. We finally had our cameras ready on this one ...