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Right now I've popped over the bay for the day to get some more money out to spend two more days on the blissful island of Ilha Grande!
Rio had a nasty thunderstorm on Sunday so I decided to leave there on Monday and escape up the mountains for a couple of days till the clouds passed. It wasnt much sunnier in Petropolis - the little mountain town I stayed at - but it was a change of scenery. Really pretty. I came back down to Rio on Wednesday and got the bus down here to Angra dos Reis, then ran into some fellow travellers before getting the boat to Iha Grande.
Thursday there was warm but cloudy - which sucked a bit, but we did a trip on a boat for the day and went to some beaches and a lagoon. We did snorkelling and then went to a little cove where there were the most gigantic starfish. Pretty impressive. Its only the smallest of small villages so theres not a lot to do on an evening but chill out.
Yesterday we made the 3 hour trek to what is supposedly the most beautiful beach on the island (after stopping at another one and soaking up a good few hours of sun that is!!), then got a boat back to the village where we're staying. The trek was quite an achievement - up and down mountain paths defined by roots of trees and boulders, really tiring but definately worth it in the end.
So today we came over to Angra, where I'm getting a cd made of my photos (one of which I'll send home lew), then back to beach it this afternoon and tomorrow an early trek so we can spend a full day on the beach and make the most of this glorious weather!!!
Till next time...
xx
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