Sao Paulo, Brazil
From Rio de Janeiro I headed seven hours north to the small town of Ouro Preto in the hills. The fact that this place couldn?t be recommended enough by my Lonely Planet guide for its splendid mountain scenery, plus my feeling that the town would be both rather less crowded than most of the other places I?ve been and, maybe because of this, far less commercial, made for an attractive proposition after four days of the big bustling city. I wasn?t disappointed.Arriv...