Trip to Diogo

The group in Salvador has the weekend off from the school community service project, so we are spending these two days exploring a few small towns outside of Salvador. Yesterday, we drove about two hours to a small village called Diogo. Despite the beautiful weather, it is considered winter here in Brazil, so this beach town was quite empty!

We woke up early to get there, but found that it was raining, so we delayed our trip until 10am and by then the rain was gone. When we arrived, we spent an hour being shown around a property dedicated to permaculture (sustainable agriculture) which is a passion of our tour leader Angela. She has been working with this permaculture organization for many years. We were shown several plants, a "dry toilet" used for creating soil, and a house slowly being built from reclaimed wood, clay, and even old plastic bottles.

After visiting this land, we went to a local restaurant for lunch. The boys really enjoyed it, especially the small desserts at the end - something like a coconut timbit! From there, we walked for about 20 minutes over sand dunes to arrive at a gorgeous empty beach. The ocean water was the warmest we've found so far on the trip, and had the biggest waves. After a few hours we returned to Salvador for dinner and a bit of exploring in the neighbourhood.