What a beautiful place! Surrounded by steep hills with the Rio Sana rushing past, it's an interesting little town. Loved by Brazilian hippies, the roads are little more than dirt tracks, there's more motorbikes than cars, and the shops are very new age. Kind of like a mini Glastonbury. It even has its own special hill with two natural standing stones on the summit, one atop the other, though it's a 3 hour trek to get up there so we're probably not going to.

The Rio Sana is quite waterfally though, so we had a little trip up there yesterday. One of the sections of river was over very smooth rocks and made a little waterslide that we had a few goes on, despite the water being FREEZING cold!

We're staying in a pousada called Ponto de Luz, which means Point of Light, and is run by a nice lady called Amalia with her daughter and grandaughter. The last two nights we ate at a really cool vegetarian restaurant run by a Swiss guy who is so far the only person in town who speaks english! All the shops, including the restaurant, are basically just houses with the front or back opened up. The restaurant is a kitchen with seating, self service; you walk around and fill your bowl from big earthenware pots sat on the side. We vowed to go vege while we were here to clear out our systems, though me and Sal accidentally ordered burgers for breakfast this morning! Oh well. I still feel pretty good being here though, it's so peaceful and nice.

We stay one more night then tomorrow we're catching the bus back to Rio then hopping on a plane to Salvador.  ¶ 7:36 AM