Finding ourselves in Salvador for the second time we stayed again with our couchsurfer Lucas from the first time. This time, however, he wasn't doing exams and so we got to go out for some drinks with him, and I got another forro lesson bac at his flat! We also went to the cinema in Salvador with Lucas, which was a bit of a novelty , and a wierdly ordinary life thing to do. We caught up with Kasia and Eduardo again and tried acaraje, a typical food of Salvador, ...

1. The weather is always hot and sunny, and if it rains it only lasts for about an hour and then its sunny again! 2. The beautiful beaches and the surfing. 3. The fact that the people in Bahia spend all their time going to the beach, going for a surf, doing capoeira, having some beers, playing beach tennis, maybe working for a few hours, then going out and drinking again and going to bed! 4. The hot Brazilian guys! So as you've probably guessed I really liked...

We arrived in Salvador after another 24 hour bus journey, which not only am I now getting used to, but am also starting to find it suprisingly easy to entertain myself for 24 hours on a bus! We had some trepidation about Salvador as we had been told from many travellers we had met who'd been there that its dangerous and that people constantly hassle you. However we experienced none of this, and consequently I actually really liked Salvador, as you always seem to ...

I need to tell you about the bus services in Brazil. As we have travellled in Brazil, starting in Rio, and everywhere further north, we have discovered that the local bus services are a kind of crazy final destination-esc death defiance! Sort of a mixture between the knight bus in harry potter, and the playstation game burnout (sorry for the geeky references there!) the buses go at the speed of light, dodging between traffic and causing the passengers to fly off ...

Rio de Janeiro, the city of god, a place that I was VERY excited to go to, and I have to be honest, I was slightly disappointed by it.. but I think that's only because I had such high expectations, because it is still a very cool city! There are some very cool things to see there, and we did most of them I think, spending A LOT of money in the process! Rio is very expensive! Obviously we went to the famous beaches, Copacabana and Ipanema, which are nice beaches,...