Mon 28th Aug: Today we got up early had a good breakfeast and prepared for our 2.5hrs hike through rainforest to the otherside of the island to see arguably one of the most beautifuçl beaches in the world - LOPES MENDES.......unreal! The skies were threating to rain as we made our way up the mountain through the forest...we had no guide and relyed completely on timber signs that were not clearly posted. it was a really though hike, in fact it was more like roc...

Sun 27th Aug: today we did very little but chill out. The weather wasnt very good as usual so we just relaxed in the hammocks with a book. After lunch the weather got a little better so we walked down byt the strand and in about 20mins we had discovered about 3/4 deserted beaches......there is something like 100 beaches in Ilha Grande. that evening after dinner the weather got bad again so we realxed at the hostel bar with soem germans and had a few drinks. For s...

Sat 26th Aug: We left copacabana on sat and headed south in the direction of Ilha Grande (Big island). we took a 2hr bus journey from Rio that brought us to margtiba where we got a fishing boat for another 2hrs. The boat trip itself was amazing...All we could see were mountains and clear blue skies and of course sea sea sea. Our little fishing boat that almost topsided evertytime someone would stand up looked tiny as we past massive tankers in the middle of the o...