(click to enlarge)

"This is the real Brazil" -- Fernao

After 3 days of travel, including 22 hours driving from Brasilia to the coast of Bahia, I can't say much more. A few things not pictured above..

The two hours of car-swallowing potholes in an arrow-straight highway in a flat plain, playing chicken against oncoming trucks.

Night swim in the river in Correntina, followed by a whole grilled fish and ice cold guarana. Bliss.

Push starting the car in a small cattle-farming village when it wouldn't start.

The first sight of ocean waves and the drum circle last night.