Final Night in Itapua

Sadly both my original contacts in Salvador declined to meet me for whatever reason, and so it was lucky indeed that I had made a new contact with my new Spanish Amigo and self confessed lover of all things Brazilian as he saved the second night and third day from being a bit boring and humdrum.

After stupidly waiting for a phone call from my original contact here, who in all fairness I had spoken to only last night so assumed that plans would not change in only a few hours, I just decided to take a stroll around the centre of Itapua, maybe try to even out the tan my tan a bit and let my poor feet recover a bit.

Once it got to about 6pm the place was dark, but far from deserted, but being so rudely ignored I could not really get myself into the fiesta mood alone, so I thought I would get an early night and then make a full day of it early tomorrow.

So I strolled back to my hotel, after taking a few shots of a group of teenagers playing twilight beach football, and then with a mouth full of seedless grapes I went to bed. However I had only been dozing for a few hours when there was a knock on my door, and I had completely forgot that the last time I spoke to my new amigo I had said that if later on he was up to not a lot to give me a shout and we would go for a meal or something.

Well it appeared that he did have something up but had chose to give me a knock anyway to see if I wanted to tag along, which of course I jumped at and we ended up going to see a friend of his who runs a very nice private Puesada or smallish private bed and breakfast, for slightly more personal friends and family rather than just anyone off the street or the internet.

We chatted for a bit before we discussed going to see the Sea turtles in the morning and go for a nice traditional Brazilian meal in a nice part of town. This place was amazing, the decor, the staff and the food ( both the buffet and the selection of meats on offer ) put a lot of places in London to shame and it was without doubt one of the tastiest meal I have had eaten in a good six months or so.

The price was BR $90 each, so it was not cheap even by local standards, but then again for the all you can eat meat off the skewer and a buffet to die for I doubt anyone who ate there would call it overpriced.

Around 11pm we caught a cab back to the hotel and arranged to meet up very early the next morning in order to reach Praia do Forte for the sea turtles in plenty of time to get back form my flight out to Rio.

Oh and did you know that Cactus plants actually have rather nice flowers .... no, neither did I til now.