4th May - Spent most of the day in a hammock recovering from the trek! My shoulder is pretty tneder but the rest of me is feeling pretty good. Those hundreds of laps around the Edithvale Velodrome certainly paid off. Had a look around this gorgeous town. Every little street is stunning, although the roads are very rough. The people here are incr...

Chapada Diamantina National Park: Breath taking, incredible, beautiful, astonishing, a WOW moment at every turn. I will attempt to keep my words to a minimum here (there is a first for everything! hehe) and upload as many pics as I am able. Day 1 - May 1st: 7 hours hiking. An easy start to the trek, even with a stall selling drinks. Heaps of cli...

Monday was kind of a siesta day for us and arrangements, thus I shall jump directly to Tuesday. On Tuesday we go up for breakfast then wore long pants and walking shoes. We grabbed our hats and bottles of water and set out after our guide - Pedro to the stables. Pete, who apparently was leaving the Pousada for good after six months of work there...

Our bus stopped in Lencois at 5:00 in the morning. The ride itself was pretty bad, unlike any of the previous bus rides we've had here - we sat near the bathroom, it was pretty cold the whole trip there, and very uncomfortable chairs. But we managed...:-) When we got off the bus, dazed and hazy - a guy from the Pousada we reserved was waiting fo...

Day 1 We took the overnight bus from Salvador to Lençois and managed to get some sleep before arriving there at 5:30 am. We were bombarded by the (now familiar) group of guides trying to get us to take this tour or stay at that pousada. Even though familiar, it's never fun to wake up and 5 minutes later to powerwalk following a stranger to an un...

Hola gente! Sorry, I know it´s been a while, maar hi** zijn we dan we**, still alive and kicking in gorgeous Morro de Sao Paulo. Sinds zondag t**ug van een vijfdaagse trekking in Parque da Chapada Diamantina, een gebied grot** dan Belgie, Ned**land en Zwits**land samen, waar de tectonische platen op elkaar gebotst zijn na de afscheuring van Zuid...

Well - I arrived in Brazil yesterday morning, and had to sit in Sao Paulo airport for hours till my next flight....considering it's one of the main international hubs of Brazil it's SO drab and dreary, very depressing with awful lighting...not the greatest of ways to start my trip :o( Anyway, so flew to Salvador (much nicer airport), and I was a...

The two day hike was great. Along for the ride were our two guides, Luan (a girl) and Andrea (a guy), a Spanish guy, Jose, an Israeli couple (I could never get their names right, not gonna try now) and me. We got a ride in a sweet ass Toyota 4x4 truck (kind of resembles a Land Rover Defender), no idea what model it is, but I want one. Drove thro...

Lencois, ***, Friday August 17th-19th, 2007. Nope a little town of 10,000. No globalization.   After a quick night's rest in Feira de Santana, (which was a typical Northern Brazilian town, famous for its leather markets and where prices were unsurprisingly much cheaper), Yankee Stan and I hopped on a bus to head to Lencois.   Lencois is located ...

Authors note: For this entry keep in mind that we did a day trip out to a place called Capão and therefore the dates are screwed up. Lençois has to be one of my most favourite places visited so far. An appealling looking village in itself, its placement amongst luschious forests and unique rivers simply adds to the enjoyment of the eyes. We foun...