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Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

Flying into the rainforest near the border with Venezuela.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

The huge circular house, which they call a yano, measures some 400 metres in circumference and twenty-five metres across.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

A tribal welcome. The Yanomami greet their link with the outside world.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

At Demini airstrip. At least someone’s interested in my holiday snaps.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

In my mosquito-proof hammock. I look as if I'm waiting to hatch out.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

In the forest, preparing for the dance. Palm spines through the nose and mouth, toucan feathers and red dye for the body.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

Harpy eagle feathers for the men.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

The dancers circle the yano, women and men in seperate groups.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

The warriors end up at the centre of the plaza for a hunting dance.

Brazil - Day 1 — Day 1, Demini, Roraima, Brazil.

The reward at the end of the dance. Huge quantities of fermented peach palm.

Brazil - Day 33 — Day 33, Salvador, Brazil.

Mestre Boa Gente, king of capoeira, with the berimbau, the instrument they fight to.

Brazil - Day 33 — Day 33, Salvador, Brazil.

Agility and poise are taught at the Academy on the top floor of the Mestre’s house.

Brazil - Day 33 — Day 33, Salvador, Brazil.

Taking a breather at the window of the radio station – Voice of the Valley of Small Stones – after a grueling interview with the Mestre.

Brazil - Day 33 — Day 33, Salvador, Brazil.

Mestre leads the Capoeira Academy, and hanger-on in background, through the favela to the big public demonstration.

Brazil - Day 33 — Day 33, Salvador, Brazil.

Capoeira as it should be. The combination of speed and balance is breath-taking to watch. And this being Brazil, they smile as they spar.

Brazil - Day 50 — Day 50, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Gonçalo Ferreira, champion of Cordel literature, declaims his ‘Ode to a Book’.

Brazil - Day 50 — Day 50, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A period tram station in Rio’s Santa Teresa neighbourhood.

Brazil - Day 50 — Day 50, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Tasting jabuticaba with Fábio at the fruit and flower market in Laranjeiras.

Brazil - Day 50 — Day 50, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

At home with Fábio’s friends Marcelo and Carol and their two children.

Brazil - Day 50 — Day 50, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Lapa Arches were built to carry water from the hill of Santa Teresa into the centre of Rio. Nowadays they carry a tramway.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Dramatic escarpment on the edge of Brazil’s high plateau.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Sounding the horn.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Before antiseptic, the wounds would have been dressed with dried cow dung.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

With Vespasiano, carrying traditional curved horn, and Alex, taking a drink of mate in one of the wetland lagoons.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Herding of the cattle, the most demanding part of my morning as a cowboy, as the heat builds up and dust from hunderds of hoofs swirls round.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Caimans prefer to sit in the sun.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Trying my hand at piranha-fishing with the immensely patient Juan.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

Racing back home as sun sets on the Rio Negro.

Brazil - Day 72 — Day 72, The Pantanal, Brazil.

End of the day. Sitting with Pollianna as Guilherme Rondon sings his songs.

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