woke up to the alarm at 9am breakfast to be served between 8-10. snoozed until 930 then went to breakfast in our pajamas. our table was waiting for us, complete with two breads, juice and meat/cheese platter. topped our breads with the creamy cheese dressing then ate the other bread with the meat and cheese. rachel had 2 fresh picked bananas and a peach like object with some coffee.
came back to our room and napped while rachel read harry potter 2. woke up about 1045, got dressed and put on our tennis shoes for a hike to the waterfall. we set out about 1100. figured out the trail to the waterfall, which passed us under some aqueducts built in 1860 before another hour long hike to the waterfall. along the way, we ran into the two american girls again on the trek down to the waterfall. upon arriving, rachel changed her mind on jumping in. there was a young boy playing in the falls naked... and about 20 other people in the falls as well. we went to priya prita beach and enjoyed a rain shower before treking back and figuring out where the other three beaches were within the ilha grande park. found the other beaches, complete with some pot smokers enjoyed the view and set off to the 5 beaches in a row on the other side of abraao.
the beaches required we start up the same trail we did yesterday to lopez mendes but we got to quickly veer off along the water. longest plateau trail yet! we had to take our shoes off to cross from one beach to another but the pay off was andrea actually got in the salt water and our tennis shoes did not get too soaked. yes, we were the crazy tourists walking through the beaches in tennis shoes. the locals all here walk around barefoot. we passed to 3 of four beaches before we had a long hike to abraaozinho beach. upon arriving, we both went in the cold sea water. a fisherman caught a fish and that was in for andrea. out she went. it was nearly 500 when we got to the beach and sunset is approximately 600 so we decided to hike back before we got stuck needing our flashlights.
made it back to abraao and grabbed a beachside table and had 2 x 600ml bottles of beer for 14.70R (7 dollars) made it back to our hotel, both enjoyed long hot showers before going out for dinner. oh, those coconut cookies we purchased yesterday—totally demolished. mmmmm at 8pm we set off for downtown ilha grande in search of good food preferably something fried. thye w having a live concert in the center so wecozzied up and got a tablet at a bar. we both ordered some kind of carne sandwich which came with french fries and we each ordered our own 6o0ml beer. mine came with hard boiled egg and rachels came with capresa whih was a sort of sausage. meanwhile a local boy started talking to us before our meals came. he gav me his email address, well see if he gets emailed but he too will be is copacabana beach for the new years celebration. shortly after our foo when we realized wwhat came with our carne another local boat taxi driver came and talked to us. at first h pretended he didnt know enlish then wheen we were liike no se he started talking english andre was his name. he thn was offering to bing us to the blue lagoon which would be pretty and he wanted to buy us a drink. we started walking with him but rachel and i wanted to buy some souveniours.. so we found andre his friens then wewent and got our souvvengiers. shopping we found a necklace for someone and then we went into a shop and we each goot a surong....which is what eveyone lys on in the beach, much smaller than a beach towel but larger. quite wsome actually. we tn both had to ppeeee so we walked back to our posada dropped our stuff off used the facility and then went back for crepes. andrea ordered a caipringua and rachel had a maranguca and we orded a caramell con coco crepe . quite delicious. while we waited street dancers dancing with fire juggling sticks came and performed. then we ate our cepes and walked back and finished packing so we could catch our 9am catamaran back to angra to meet up with felicio in rio. very good day.
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