Travelin Monkey

Today I bathed for the first time in Brasil. I am estimating the next shower in 4-5 days, and Matt laughs at me. Hell, if we spend all day at the beach, what is the point? What an amazing couple of days it has been. The boat for the cruise was waiting around for us for 15 minutes because we barely made it up for it!

When we got there, we took off on an amazing voyage with some spectacular views. Our first stop was an island with MONKEYS!! I LOVE MONKEYS!! We fed them bread and jumped off the boat to swim a little. The next stop was a private beach called Lala where we hung out for about an hour, nothing major, except for spectacular views, soft sand, and green-blue crystal clear waters!

We had lunch in an area with schools of colorful fish, prime for snorkelling. Our last stop was a huge island, where we met Mike from Englang. The 3 of us found an off trail and went exploring around the island, getting creeped out because a chicked was running in the bushes and we had no idea what it was.

We met a guy from Belgium and two families from France that told us to check out Belem and Marajou, an island off Belem. We got back and started to take pictures and explore the Old City. At night, we went to Ateresa, Enrique’s resteraunt. We spent 7 hours there. The first couple of hours, Enrique showed us pictures of places he travelled to in Brasil with his wife and kids and helped us get a better idea of where we wanted to go and what we should see! We also saw naked pics of him and his wife

So, after that, we ate there, thent he couple closed up shop and joined us at the table. We were speaking in English, Spanigh, and Portuguese about politics, life, dentistry, and South American history. They have a daughter that is studying dentistry in Bs As. We get back at 2 am and decided to go at 10 am to a beach called Trinidad, they had recommended it. They offered to pick us up and drive us down there.

The drive was through a mini-jungle to a very remote part of Brasil with amazing small beaches. We immediately went exploring, waslking up and down small jungle mountain sides to get to teh different beaches. One beach was a nude beach, but Matt didn’t want to go there (I wonder why 8–D). We got to a bigger remote beach and found another trail that led to a natural pool, ocean water surrounded by rocks where you could snorkel. There was also a guy selling Cairpirinhias there (fresh lime juice, slushed with sugar, and mixed with sugar cane liquor, Cachaca).

I slept under the sun for a couple of hours while Matt read. When we woke up, we headed back to the first beach and spent some more time under the sun. At about 3 pm, we left and met up with a guy from a local shop that was going to take a capoiera class and invited us to go! It was incredible!! The way they danced and the way the trainer sung was ridiculous.. AND THE BEATS OF THE DRUMS!!

We just got back from giving Enrique his books and exchanging emails. Matt was picking up on a 12 year old girl was was making us some photocopies (not really, but I made him feel like a pedophil anyhow).

Tomorrow we head to Rio, then further North!!

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