We were up and checking our bags in at 6 to board our onward flight at 7 which was very short at only 50 minutes and before long we could see the city of Rio De Janeiro stretching out below us. We landed at just after 8 and after the usual drama of baggage collection and trying to find out how to get to the place we are staying we managed to get on a bus with our bags, only to find you have to go through a kind of turnstile thingy and our bags wouldnt fit through...

Nothing to say about today as we didn't do anything, after waking up and packing our stuff away we got a lift to the airport from the tour agency and caught out flight to Belo Horizonte which took 3 and a half hours. We then arrived collected our bags and proceeded to the desk where we were informed that we could not check in as our flight was the next morning. We thenserched around for a baggage storage place but they wanted $5 per bag so we elected to keep them...

Although we were up by 8 this morning our plans for the day were postponed by the annoying lack of information about anything on the internet and it wasn't until after midday that we eventually left the hostel. It was hot and muggy today, about 33 degrees, so the bus that we managed to catch, much to our surprise given the chaotic system of random flagging down, was a bit on the warm side. A helpful passenger told us when to get off as the bus assistant (whose j...

We woke up at around 6:30 and were soon up for breakfast which consisted of biscuits and crackers with a massive pot of coffee made once again over the fire. Once satisfied we then took the hammocks down and gathered our stuff together before proceeding off on our jungle trek. We were walking for almost 2 hours through the dense undergrowth while Mutante pointed out all the different species of trees and told us about their uses. (preventing malaria, starting fi...

We were woken at about 5 in the morning by the thunder storm that had been brewing all yesterday afternoon and evening, the ferocity with which it broke was amazing, not only the noise which was immense but the fact that each roll of thunder shook the very ground and bed we were sleeping in! After a while it subdued a little and we were able to get another hours sleep before getting up for breakfast at 7. We ran down the path in the rain to the main lodge where w...