Allright, high time for a little update here, in very short.
Leaving Manaus on 9/6, took the 4,5 day boat ride down the amazon to Belem, which is on the coast. During the trip, met Natasha and Chris, a Canadian couple in search of the perfect beach and casinos... We connected and deceided to travel together for a while.
So, arrived in Belem on the 13th of June, incidentally my birthday, and as such, the worst I have ever spend. Belem not the liveliest city, Brazil playing while we needed to take the night bus from Belem to Sao Luis, so not much time for celebrating (let´s face it, it came down to an ice cream at the bus station).
Sao Luis, nice historical city with UNESCO neighbourhood, shitty weather. Are starting to wonder what all the fuss is about, Brazil is not that great! All time low of the trip...
Leaving to Barreirinha, next to big national park with the nicest sand dunes ever seen, in white send, which is why them call them ¨sheets¨. Seperated from Chris&Natasha since she fell sick, and I needed to get to Luis Correia to get in touch with Benoit, another Volens ccoperant. Was super to have three days of the life of a cooperant here, and glad to get out of the backpacjers circuit.
He left for Belgium, and I accompanied him to Fortaleza, waving goodbye at the busstation. I continued to Aracati, another great surfing/sanddunes place here in Brasil (have seen enough of them for a while) but great sleeping on the beach with my hammoc, and a nice rasta feeling to the place.
A catastrophical day of hitchhiking didn´t bring me very far, so switched to bus to get to Recife, where I had a couple of people I wanted to contact to finally really start jobhunting. Am still here currently, and really liking the feeling of the city.
Next, think I will only do two more cities: Rio (loads of NGO there) and Salvador de Bahia, sounds very interesting culturally speaking, and would be nice not to be in a capital again.
That´s all sorry, a bit of a very very short resume, but time is money in cyberworld!
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