My goodness - what luxury - a plane trip!!!! We only had an afternoon in this historic town, and it was beautiful, if not the safest place. Once again, we were warned off by the locals (some uniformed personnel - but I don't think they were the police) when they saw us approaching the beach. They gestured to us 'mugging' and one of them said Drugs, and they directed us back to the historical center. I am not one to ignore the locals so we turned back and headed b...

Praia de Pipa is a pleasant little beach village.... although I am feeling a little beached out having travelled from 1 beach to another over the last 2 weeks, and am looking forward to a change of scene - hard life, isn't it? I finally took a break from vegetating in my hammock yesterday morning ... and went for a 2 mile run on the beach, followed by yoga and a swim, and paid the price later - I was feeling sore all over! We had a little toga party at the po...

We went on a buggy ride to the northern beaches of Natal - it was so much fun! It was a shame I did not manage to capture a video of our ride (mainly because I only had 2 hands and they were both clinging on for dear life) as we took some sharp bends on some of the dune hills, and as we plunged headlong down a few of the sand dune walls. We were all preparing to bail as all of us were convinced the buggy would be doing backflips down the dunes. Better than any th...

Fortaleza was not the most exciting place - which made it a good opportunity for me to catch up on my reading. Off to Natal on the night bus tonight.

We bumped into Kurt and Madelon again on our bus to Jijoca, and gave them a ride in our 4WD to Jericoacoara. It was a scenic ride as we drove through the sand dunes, and then on the beach, with 2 ferry rides in between - the second one involved 2 men poling our vehicle and the 10 of us on a raft across a stream. Jericoacoara is surrounded by beautiful sand dunes, and made up of guesthouses, sandy streets, bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and kiteboarding / winds...