Lencois, Bahia

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Originally uploaded by CarlMyhill.

Tuesday we took a small plane to Lencois, in the middle of a vast forest in land. We met Kathryn's Brazilian friends Eduardo, Luciana and Maya at the airport and they were not hard to find since their cab pulled up right behind ours!


As an interesting side note, Jimmy Page has a house in Lencois, which you can see on this photo. Last time I saw Kathryn was at WOMAD where Robert Plant was playing. There seems to be something spookily Led Zeppelin in our relationship, though sadly we have yet to hear either Page or Plant play Stairway to Heaven.

There was some debate as to whether we would get to Lencois at all due to some poor visibility at Lencois airport and plan B would mean a huge drive from the next stop on the plane's trip, back across very poor roads, which would have taken all day. Fortunately after some delay we got our small plane to Lencois, with Maya regretting that we couldn't take the pink plane (though we were later to have a trip in that!).

On leaving the small airport the wildlife of the area was immediately apparent, in the form of a rhino beetle just on the tarmac of the carpark. It looked like a taxi had driven over it but it was still hobbling around though the taxi was a wreck (just kidding). It was a bit like this photo shows and it was sadly the only one we saw in Lencois.