Blogs from Brazil, South America - page 642

23/2 Jericocoa is a hippy, backpacking town, full of gringos and restaurants, creperies, icecream, shops and situated on the perfect long beach with amazing sand dunes, wind surfing, day trips to national parks etc. So its a bit of a tourist hub and it is stinking hot!!! George, our favourite driver threw us in the back of the jeep and we set off down a paved highway. This is actually an event. Clutch broke in one town but after 15 minutes of home mechanics, George had us on the way again. Took two ferries, one was motorised, the other nothing more than a wodden plane being pushed by locals with long poles and then down another perfect white beach, through a national park to Jeri. Cool accomodation, sharing a hammock terrace with the kids, so were ... read more

we have had many more adventures since our last entry it is always tough to remember them when we sit down to write again. as predicted in the last email sun did come our way and we spent a beautiful day on a beach called itacarezinho. it was a glorious beach with tropical rain-forest hills sliding in aqua-marine (as in the crayon color) oceans. this was a part of the brazil cost that has not met with the burdens of tourism yet as we had to share the three mile stretch of beach with about 15 other people. it was quite an adventure just to get to the beach as we had to get on a bus with our surf boards and jump off at km 15 then walk down a dirt road for about a ... read more

Anyway, Sao Luis is impressive but we're too tired to care! Still pattering around and feeling like death. Lost or gained a day somewhere but not sure when. Shell's has renamed our diet the 's*** yourself thin diet* but we're not sure it will take off in a major way. Sao Luis is another beautiful town of colonial architecture and markets aimed at the tourists. There are a lot of small museums that the owners will escort you around but most of us are interested in just sleeping. We're slowing adding extra people to our group and keep running into the US and Danish contingents but it's good to have new people in the group and laugh with them over dinner! Made it Barreirinhas, another small town on the river. Great food and huge sleep... we're ... read more

Feeling hugely better today... went shopping for the usual muchies. Living on cream biccies. They seem to be the SA snack of choice and they're only 40c a pack, so we're munching out! The river here is beautiful but the beach is an exposed sand dune at the end of town and it's like sitting in an oven. It's also the main thoroughfare for the pedestrian traffic and bicycles, so you sit near the water at your own risk. Chilled out in a square near the church, then hit siesta time and crashed. Highlight of Barra, is the sand dunes in the national park. There's a system of lagoons, scattered about, so we grapped a jeep at sunset and bumped along for an hour to the dunes. Dry season :( and a 2km walk across the ... read more

we got on a bus for valentines day, ahh true love, and headed for a town on the coast - ilheus. after the lengthy 7 hr ride which was only supposed to take 5 we got of the bus and sat to figure out our plan of action. in every town thus far this has consisted of going to the tourist office, talking to travels at the station, ringing a few pousadas, and trying to figure out what direction things are. well after about an hour of indecision and hearing less than glorious things about the town we jumped on another bus with a Norwegian girl and let the winds guide us to itacare´. we still find ourselves in the town after a fantastic couple of days on the beach trying to surf, trying not to ... read more