I was sad to be leaving busy, bustling Rio De Janeiro but looking forward to some beach time in the north of Brazil. Nikki and I dragged our heavy backpacks to the bus station at 7pm, bought our overly-expensive tickets and prepared for our 16 hour bus journey, which we would later discover was in fact, a 23 hour bus journey. The journey through the night was painfully long and uninteresting. However, as the sun bagan to rise at 5.30am the sky turned dusky pink displaying tropical jungle, emerald green mountains and clear blue streams. A beautiful, picturesque view to wake up to. We finally arrived at Ilheus bus station at 7pm, 24 hours after we had left our hostel in Rio De Janeiro. We frantically ran through the bus station looking for the ticket office as we had to make sure we got onto the last bus heading towards Itacare otherwise we would be spending the night in Ilheus bus station. We didn´t think we would make it.
Luckily, we got our tickets in time and boarded another uncomfortable bus, thankfully only a 90 minute journey this time. We eventually arrived in pretty Itacare where we were greeted with cobbled streets, cute cafes, fairy-light covered bars and coconut covered beaches. Exactly what we needed after our long 25hour journey!
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