fresh n juicy chunks of oyster :: RTW travel blog

On a whim I've decided to only make it half-way to Fortalezza and ended up in Sao Luis whose current claim to fame includes being a UNESCO world heritage site and having gotten a lot of cash for the honour. Most of this cash seems to have flowed into springing up very helpful tourist information offices everywhere (a rarity so far in Brasil) and a tourist information museum of sort, with not much content, a couple of exhibits on a local 'bull death' festival (all symbolic!), many video screens with slickly produced films praising the region and 20 odd guides/wardens standing around not doing much at all. But then some of the money has apparently gone into restoring the beautiful colonial buildings many of which have walls clad in bathroom tiles, which is a little weird. There's also a lot of arts, handicrafts and live music and dancing around, making it quite a pleasant place.
Tonight, however, I'm moving on by bus to Tútoia, a town in a river delta and from there I'll make it on to a beach town called Jericoacoara which, they say, is nice. I assume though, that it won't have internet so you'll all be spared more posts from me for a little while...