Lencois, Brazil
We took a 6 hour bus trip inland from Salvador to Lencois to go to the Chipata Diamante a National Park that until very recently was a big diamond mine and is still used as a mine by some local diamand miners today.
It was really interesting to head inland and see more of the country side which brought home the huge disparity of wealth that we noticed a lot in Salvador. Lencois reminded us a lot of some of the African towns we had visited in terms of the poverty...