Paradise

So we have been staying on a beautiful jungle island south of Rio, called Ilha Grande for the past few days. The island is completely covered in dense jungle, except for one little village and quite a few pristine, paradise beaches. The first night we were there there was a massive storm and all the electricity cut out for the whole of the island all night- this proved very problematic walking back to our hostel without headtorches (why would we take out a headtorch going out for dinner?!) and meant we got very wet and muddy and I screamed A LOT! We now take our headtorches everywhere. Luckily it hasn´t rained since!

The beaches on Ilha Grande are the most perfect, beautiful beaches I´ve ever seen, we found our favourite beach so far- Lopes Mendes, by trekking 6.5k through the jungle- it was definately worth it- the sand was incrediably white and it squeaked when we walked on it for some reason- anyone know why sand sometimes sqeaks?! The water was lovely and we enjoyed some huge waves- I got completely taken out by a few- as did my bikini! Luckily we were pretty much the only people on the beach. I´m happy to report that we are very tanned, Chris is now getting mistaken for a Brazillian (not for his portuguese though)!

By the way I didn´t break the toilet by blocking it- the flush broke! Just wanted to clear that up. And Chris LOVED the flowers round his neck!

Over and out.