Sao Luis, Day 16

The Journey is over. Four days, over two thousand kilometers and we`re finally in Sao Luis. No more enforced dieting on crackers and water, no more crammed buses or trains full of people and bauxite, no more sleeping rough. Well not until we leave Sao Luis anyhow. I`ve just changed and showered off the orange and red relics of the journey off.

There is no point in fully recounting the train journey, its just the same as the coaches but smoother and slower. Notable, though, whenever the train stopped you could buy plates of food, fruit, drinks, anything from people out of the window. At the end of the journey two girls took a picture of all three of us. I think it was because we had blue eyes and they maybe hadn`t seen too many foreigners before. We`re back on the gringo trail now though, so I doubt this will be a regular occurence/ego-boost.

Getting off the train we bargained a taxi down to twenty-five reals. He got lost but this worked in our favour as we got a mini-tour of the town, though we had to walk a bit at the end when our favoured hostel was full. Sao Luis is cool. Loads of little reggae venues and bursting bars, some with live music. I thinkg we`ll have a quick look but save ourselves for tomorrow though, its been a long few days.