Leaving Salvador turned out to be much more complicated than we had planned! We had booked flights to Sao Luis, but as it is necessary to make a connection in Fortaleza, and cheaper to book the journey as two flights, this is what we had done. In true Brazilian style, our first flight to Fortaleza was delayed, so we went for a gourmet dinner in the form of Bobs. DON´T EVER EAT BOB´S! It´s the equivalent of Mac Donalds, only its ten times worse, ...

In our last week in Salvador we pretty much continued going out, drinking lots of caipirinha and cerveja(beer),school and of course planning the next few bits of our trip. Marisha´s birthday was on the Wednesday, but Tuesday is a big night out in Pelourinho, so we headed there with Bryan and Gregor from school, and ended up just sitting listening to the bands in the square and drinking fresh fruit cocktails and chatting to the various friends we had made ...

Hey guys, sorry it´s been CRAZY the last week or so,having finished school in Salvador, we have dropped in on the towns of Sao Luis and Belem, and are now in Manaus! We are heading into the jungle properley for 5 days tomorrow - very excited - so will post a proper HUGE update with photos when we return (if we return!). Keep the messages coming and enjoy the snow when it arrives! Loadsa luv Marisha and Rakhee xxx

Hey guys! Just a quick post to explain why there were no pictures yesterday! The USB adaptor wasn~t working in the internet cafe we were in,so we have FINALLY uploaded all the photos today at school...HOWEVER, Marisha is a bit of an idiot and has put half of them in the FIRST Salvador album, soo you should check out both of the albums that we have up to see ALL of the recent photos! Hope that makes sense and you enjoy the pictures! Till the next time... Mari...

Heya! SO we have finally reached an internet cafe with FAST connection and enought time to fill you in on our crazy first week in Salvador. Get comfy guys cos this is going to take a while! (cos it´s half Marisha telling the story!) Sooooo.... we got to Heathrow at some insane hour of the morning, dragging our backpacks (they have wheels!!) along behind us and praying that they weren´t overweight (Marisha´s was about 28kg and Rakhee´s was...