Well hidden... we thought! Only a few meters away from the main path out of town
but the next morning we were woken up by a truck from which 5 tough guys came out to ask us what we were doing there... "Obviously sleeping!" At 5am, I find it hard to speak Portuguese! But luckily one of the men spoke French well (probably a guide?). They repeated several times we couldn't camp here because we were on indigenous land. I played it dumb and told them we had been caught in the rain last night and had set camp very fast, but we'd be on our way out very soon, so they let us be. In Caraiva there is no police, the Pataxo have their own leaders and rules.
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