Hey everyone really sorry haven't written in so long. I've done so much I've actually got Van here to help me remember it all! The weekend after the smoke falls we went on a kind of working holiday to Salvador which was brilliant. It was a 7 hour bus journey from Palmeiras and we left at 12pm and arrived at about 7pm on the Saturday. That evening we went out in the town and ate at the best sea food restaurant in the whole of Bahia! It wasn't cheap at all but ...

Hey I've had a really good two weeks since I last wrote and I've done so much. On Friday I went to the second highest water fall in Brazil and it was amazing. It is called the Cachoeira da Fumaça and is 340 meters high! It took us an hour to walk up this really steep trackand another hour to walk across the top of the mountain before we reached the water fall and the views of the surrounding mountains were amazing!! It was so cool because with somebody holding...

Hey everyone sorry I haven't written in so long! I have been so busy working and travelling don't really have much spare time! I'm still enjoying the work at GAP (environmental organisation) and have made really good friends with everybody that works there. We have planted hundreds of seeds into individual bags now and they have started getting delivered to different areas where they will be left to grow a bit and then olanted into the ground. Last week I worke...

Hey all hows everyone doing? Really, really enjoying Brazil and the people are really cool here. I couldn't have asked for a better family their so welcoming and have so many friends that I now know aswell. I went to this quality waterfall yesterday and you can slide down the bottom half of it because the rocks are so smooth so had a wicked day doing that! Got a few cuts and bruizes at the end but it was well worth it! Have some amazing pics of it all but thi...

Hey everyone. Sorry haven't updated my site in ages, it's really hard because there are not many internet places in south america that work very well or are really slow! I've moved in with my familly in Brazil now and their brilliant. The son 'Marcos' taught himself a bit of english by reading the lirics off english songs which I thought was really clever and he is really good considering he didn't take lessons or anything! I flew from Santiago to Sao Paulo a...