and back again to Lencois

21 April Checked out the surfing beach in Pria del Pipa today which was good but otherwise relaxed like 95% of the population.

22 April Booked our flight south from Recife to Salvador with the intention of going back to Lencois and hopefully doing another 3 day trek.

23 April Up and out at 6.30am to catch a minibus out of Pria De Pipa. It was obviously the same bus the workers use as 16 of us were jammed into a 12 seat mini van plus the space our 2 big backpacks took up. Anyway we eventually got to a small town called Guiyana where after breakfast we got our big bus 4 hours souh to Recife. Once at Recife, we got a taxi to the airport and we were back in Salvador 4 hours later. Amazing the flight was 16 times quicker than the bus and 2.5 times the price and boy is it worth it. When we arrived at the bus station in Salvador we booked our tickets back to Lencois for which we had a 6 hour wait. There was a shopping centre across the road and easily spent the 6 hours browsing the shops, eating gorgeous food at the chinese kilo restaurant (a buffet where your food is weighed and paid for by the kilo or part thereof) a few cold beers and then into the cinema for the new Nicholas cage movie `Knowing´ which was crap but great to sit in a cinema again, slightly inebriated and with a bag of M&Ms and it all in English. Great.
At 11.30pm we boarded our bus and we were on our way to to Lencois.

24 April We arrived back in Lencois at 5.30am and went to the same hostel. After a couple of hours sleep we went down to breakfast and surprised our teachers freinds with our return. We checked out going on a 3 day trak but nobody else was going. There were interesting 1 dayers for the following 2 days which we opted for instead.

25 April Went on a 6 hour hike along the river bed of the local river. The walk took us along the walls of the canyon and hopped and walked along the rocks to a big water fall. The dog from the hostel, Roy, joined us and was great to walk with a dog again.

26 April Happy Birthday Louise (my sister). 8 of us went on a Chacaca tour (Chacaca is a local spirit made with sugar cane and infused with fruits and various other flavours) We got to this remote Brazilian farm by an army style troop carrier 4WD to do the tour on how the stuff is made and of course some tasting. The day also included horse riding, Tubing, Gourmet breakfast, Lunch and snacks. The guide, driver & cook and all the food and utensils came in the jeep with us too.

27 & 28 April Quiet days again, not doing much other than booked our tickets out of Lencois tomorow morning.