I am now 16 days into the trip and have traveled on from Rio to Porto Seguro, then to Salvador, Recife and am writting this in Natal. Porto seguro stands out as having the best beaches as can be seen in the photos, they were empty and went on for miles. Porto seguro itself was a pretty cool place, a kind of middle class holiday resort for brazillians. The atmosphere was very chilled out, during the day we eaither sunbathed or waled around the small cobbled streets, then in the evening we ate outside at one of the many cool little restauraunts. After sampling lots ofthe local drink which is caprina (a whole lime, ice and lots of cachasa), i was convinced to give samba a go, which went fairly well and no one cares anyway.
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