Belo Horizonte was a special part of my trip to Brazil, and I stayed about a month in total with my friend Luiza’s family after travelling through Peru and Bolivia. So it was Luiza who planted the seed of going to Brazil for me. There were other influences as well, but after living with Luiza…

I had been warned about Sao Paulo by countless people that I had met in the previous weeks who  had visited the city, but also by natives that came from Sao Paulo. Don’t go there, it’s boring, it’s dirty, it’s full of cars, it’s for businesspeople, there’s no beach, there’s only museums… blablabla. Things Flemish…

Chapada Diamantina is one of Brazil’s largest nature park. It used to be a diamond mining area but those activities were abruptly stopped by the government in the end of the 80’s. When we were in Lençois, the largest town at the Chapada, we heard this traumatized many people for who the diamond mining business…

We were going to go to Morro de Sao Paulo, an island on the other side of the bay (Salvador has the biggest atlantic bay by the way!)   There were two ways to get there, a direct boat for tourists which was really expensive (but a lot shorter, only 2 hours) or going all…

Salvador and to a larger extent Bahia (the state) is definitely a different kind of Brazil than what I had seen the week before. I felt quite often like I was in Africa, a feeling that a lot of people we met shared. Part of the feeling was because of the kind people that walked…

And we’re OFF to South-America!!! In an attempt to keep a travel blog I’ll try to keep updating where I am and what I’ve done in the past days. It’ll probably be quite detailed since I don’t know how to NOT be detailed, which also means it’ll be updated with a certain delay, but i’d…