Ok so here´s the next update!

We flew to Brazil, of course silly us, the only chep flight we could get was 13hours and took us via Bolivia. This meant that we actually arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil at about 4:30am. Not a particularly pleasant time to arrive anywhere.

We spent 1 day in Sao Paulo, we found out that by 2020 it is predicted to be the 12th largest city in the world! Which is not really surprising - it was a huge city.   We were actually very lucky as it just happened that there was a tour guide standing at the desk whenwe were trying to speak English to the non-english speaking staff.  He spoke English and gave us some great tips of places to visit in Brazil.

We left Sao Paulo on Saturday morning and headed to a place called Guaruja  a beautiful seaside town.  We actually booked a place owned by a guy who had lived for 9 years in Sydney!  We spent our first day there on the beach, had a luau down at the beach that night.  The second day we headed off to a seculded beach (or so we thought) only to be surrounded by 100s of Brazilians on the beach.

Our travel fun in Brazil continued as we found out when we went to leave that the only bus to our next location was at 10pm. So off we headed and arrived at the next location at 2am.  Which is where we are currently we have spent the last 3 days in a seaside town called Paraty (para-chi).  An amazing very old, but very happening town.

We have a fantastic place we are staying, the hosts are really great and have given us some great things to do. There are even monkeys who come to the back door each morning for breakfast.

Day One we headed off to a beach in a town called Trinidade.  We were given the direction how to get there on the local buses, which was an experience in itself, but fun!  This beach was amazing.  It was actually 3 beaches, a calm laying doing nothing beach, a surf beach and a natural lagoon created by a ring of enormous rocks.  We walked all the way to the lagoon and were amazed, fish everywhere and so calm and relaxing.  We were also very lucky MTV was in town to record a concert by Jorge Ben Jor (links Below) and a few other special acts.  We were told that the concert was essentially the equivalent of the Brazilian Mick |Jagger showing up.

On the second day we took it a bit easier and relaxed a bit, wandered around the town, but as expected it got so incredibly hot we had to leave.  We headed home and were about to go to the beach, when the owner said, hang on do you want to go to a waterfall instead?  So off we headed and he took us to a waterfall all the locals use (not a tourist in sight).  Was heaps of fun and so relaxing, we sat had a couple of drinks and fish for lunch.  Later that night we had anoher concert apparently by a Brazilian superstar - Ana Carolina (links below).  She was also very good, buyt a bit hard to understand in Portugese!

Today we ended up going out on a cruise around the islands nearby, a fantastic day and some amazing scenery.

Next stop is Ihla Grande or the big island.

Still getting used to Brazilian time.  They do everything so late here.  It´s not unusual to eat lunch around 3-5pm and then dinner at around 10-pm.

In brazil apprently nobody owns a stereo, everyone owns a car - that is if you feel like a party with some music, you just pull your car up as close as possible, crank the car stereo and leave the doors open.

Current temperature is 35+ everyday and it seems that the hottest part of the day runs from about 10am-4pm.  We have been told the Rio (our next stop) will be even hotter around 40 degrees!


Jorge Ben Jor (This is the actual concert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt1GSwHlu4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMn4ZacrUSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Wrot_dS3s

Ana Carolina(This is the actual concert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKtIpPyvy-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwhc2CduVbM