I did get myself a new camera, some of the Picts is already up on my Facebook and there's more to come..  Rogerio was amazing, so sweet and really took care of me. He gave me a completely new side of Brazilians. The best way ! Anyway, I went to buzios which is 3 hours north of Rio with a lot of nice beaches around. The weather was still a bit raining but I had some beach time and was even able to do a boat trip the other day. Was actually just gomna stay for a night or two but ended up with four. Met some really nice people over there so I was just chilling by the beach or the pool, hanging around, drinking caiprinhias and yeah just relaxing. Needed it after a hard week with carnival.  Found out that I'd had to go back to rio to keep my journey up north so I did, hanged out a bit with R, went up the sugar loaf and so on and then I took a flight up to Salvador ( cheaper than the bus ), slept at the airport for a couple of hours, went in to town and took the bus to ilheaus which is a seven hours bus ride. From there, there was another one and a half hour to itacare. Exhausted when I finally got there, bummed in to bed and feel asleep.  The hostel in itacare called the bananas is just wonderful. Billy and Pete that's running it are so kind and my first day we all went to a beach that's kind of hard to reach and for a beautiful waterfall. I was lucky because I'd got to borrow Pauls surfing board. Finally I could do some surfing and the waves wasn't that bad.  The small city itself is nice and relaxed hippie town which I like. Went to see some capoeira one of the night and that was just so cool . Man, they are freaking fast.. And the music that they are playing.. Oh everything about it was just so special. That was a highlight ! Maybe I'd try it if I got the time, seams kind of hard ;)  Ehm, yesterday we went to the beach chilling and then of course celebrating St. Patricks day at one of the clubs. Painted each other with body paint, I had paint all over my face. The worst one in the club of corse. Still got some on my arms.. Haha. But it was an hilarious night.  Had to leave this morning for Salvador. Got here today and tomorrow I'll be leaving on a tour up north in brazil, going for the amazons, French guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia and ending up in ecuador at beginning of June. Thinking of going all the way actually and then go south to se Peru, chile and Argentina. Will make up my mind on the road I think. But it seams like a good idea now.  - What we think we become - buddah

It took me around 40 hours to get here. Long time and I was exhausted when I got here. The carnival was started and my hostel was full booked. Made a lot a lot a lot of new friends already on my first night here. We went out to see the street parades, dancing samba and drink caiprinias., :) My days in rio did bring a lot if party and loads of fun. The Brazilians are the craziest people of partying. They really are, never ever seen something like it before. It's people all over the streets dressed up in different costumes dancing. And the samba parade was amazing, even thou I had a bad section and cuoldnt really see it all but shit. Rio is a nice city between the mountains and it's a really green and lovely views. Was up at the crist monument a couple of days ago. Stunning. I enjoyed my time a lot, a lot of good people at the hostel but more and more if us are leaving so now I'm on my own again going 3 hours up north for one nigth and then all the way up the coast. Another 20 hours I think. It's really expensive around here because of the carnival so I need to leave.. :) .. Yesterday was in the city by myself, the rest wanted to sleep. Didn't have a lot of it these days. Not more than 4hours each day. Crazyness. Looking forward to a hammock and my book now. Haha ! But yeah back to the story, it started to get really hot so I was on my way back walking on a street, busy one at 2pm, and there are a girl and a guy coming up to me. They cut my bag wi a big knife and pointed it in my face. A run efter them screaming and tried to take it back, but after 4 times I realized that my life is more important than my camera. To bad I lost all my Picts from the carnival. Did steel some of the others but yeah, it's not really the same. I would still really recommend to go to rio For the carnival but exept that they doesn't have a lot to offer I think.. Looking forward to the beaches up north and hopefully I will find someone who it going my way around aswell.. Feel a bit unsafe here actully, asia is a lot safer. Okey, time to leave. This really nice Brazilian guy is taking me to a cheap market where I can buy myself a new camera. - be safe !

Eleven hours on a airplane went out pretty good. Started as usual a bit crazy. I've heard that you had to have a ticket out of brazil to get there but I've been reading a lot on the Internet saying that you don't need it. So, now I know. But I took the chance and it didn't work.. They didn't let me on the flight without a ticket, so I had to buy one pretty quick. Ended up with a 450 USD ticket. Fuck ! The good thing is that I can cancel the ticket and get the money back. And as you understand, that's what I'm gonna do. :) Anyway, I paid my ticket and said goodbye to Helene and Rosco. Hard to leave them.. Been in Perth for 6 weeks, a lot longer that I was suppose to stay. Enjoyed my time ! And if it would have been possible I should have stayed but unfortunately I already had my Australian working visa. Also, South America is this far my biggest dream.  Now I'm here sitting at the airport in Jo-burg looking at hundreds of pictures of south africa which makes me wanna travel here and explore the big continent of Africa. Hoping that my lovely sister and Rosco is gonna come with me that day. Probably still a long time until we get there but it will happened.  For the first time of my trip I'm starting to get nervous and I don't know why. Maybe it's because south America is a bit different from all the other countries I've been to so far. But I'm exited to.. All for now and then, gonna keep on listening to Edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros - home.  - This is big, this is my life and I love living it !