Playing catch-up - Brazil so far!

After posting the video the other day i felt that i ought to write at last a little something, especially considering that we haven't written all the time we've been in brazil! We're actually back in argentina, briefly, for now but that can come later.

Our Brazilian adventure began in Rio, where we arrive to find the city was actually a bit grey, a bit gutting having escaped from very grey Lima, expecting to find a very hot Rio, complete with sexy ladies in bikinis. On our first day, wandering toward the Cristo Redentor statue (that big jesus bloke), we were a bit disappointed to find that we couldn't even see the thing as the whole area was blanketed in cloud, so were forced to settle for a bit of a walk instead, alas bereft of half-naked beauties. The rest of our time in Rio was spent chilling on the beach and only the one instance of near death when i got a bit cocky in the big waves of the Atlantic and got smashed against the bottom a couple of times, hey ho, it happens.

We plucked up the courage to leave rio and headed for a small beach town called Arraial d'Ajuda, near to Porto Seguro (the point at which the Portuguese landed in Brazil) on an over night bus, which seemed to take a 2 hr detour to change a wheel and then do laps of a small car park. all a bit confusing when your half asleep.

There's not much to say about Arraial - it was beautiful, but apart from flo's spending at the fancy boutiques and some fancy dancing by the locals, there wasnt a lot going on but was a fantastic beachy town.

Next on to Salvador where, apparently there is a Church for every day of the year, flo and I werent enamoured with the town so quickly made our way,by rough boat journey, to Morro de Sao Paulo, a beautiful island where the taxis are in fact yellow wheelbarrows that help people take their bags along the sand streets. We ended up killing about a week in this tiny little place doing very little bar sitting on the beach and on the one day we decided to be adventurous and go for a walk we ended up stuck on the other side of the island and needing to hitch a ride in a tractor across the muddy streets in order to get home!

Back in Salvador after another even rougher journey which caused pretty much everyone bar me and Flo to be ill (impressed with flo who normally travels like a 5 yr old!). We spent a bit of time organising where to go next and then booked our flights to Iguasu falls!

More soon!

Nick x