Day 15 - 17: 3 Days sleeping in hammocks, catching Piranha and holding Cayman in the beautiful and vast AMAZON JUNGLE!! Day 1 - Sleeping in hammocks in the jungle! Jose was there at 8 in his VW to pick us up and the previous eve, another really lovely couple from Austria, Claudia and Thomas had also signed up to join us and were waiting in the VW machine! A Lancashire guy in the van had just done the jungle experience and said it was brilliant so we were a tad ex...

DAY 14 - Flying north to the wonders of the AMAZON jungle and the city of Manaus! Glad to be leaving we paid the expensive taxi fare to the airport begrudgingly and to see the favelas and poverty as we left and the 50 women lining up outside the local prison to see their partners was our last vision of Sao Paulo, well at the time we thought and hoped it would be our last vision!! The GOL flight didn't start too good for me as for an hour we had to sit on the plan...

DAY 13 - Leaving our idyllic island for the mental ness of Sao Paulo!!! Very sadly we piled the bags on our backs, had our last piece of chocolate cake for breakfast (must take that up when we get home!!) and a few stone heavier now, said goodbye to our beautiful posada and beach and trekked sadly to the boat. We know though that we will without doubt come back to this isle again so that made leaving slightly less distressing ha ha!! The sun was beaming as we got...

Island Info for Travellers! http://www.ilhadomel-travel.com.br - FANTASTIC website for those travellers who like us struggle to find information about this paradise isle! Staff are based in Curitiba and are REALLY friendly so vist them there if you can. They helped us beyond belief! Still my b'day! - Boat ride and week chilling on the beautiful white sand beaches and rainforest isle of Ilha do Mel- 'Honey Island!' Drinking a cold beer heading out to our idyllic i...

Day 6 -29th November, Niks 34th (eeek!) b'day - Spectacular Train Journey through the Marumbi Mountain Range and Atlantic Forest to Morretes then boat to Ilha do Mel!! Thankfully we had chosen the cheapest train class which meant no electric doors and open windows, just what I like. We had a guide on our carriage too but she only spoke Portuguese, so we had no idea what she was saying! Our carriage group were all locals but lots of fun and had already opened the ...