After exploring a church made entirely of Gold, Ryan practices some Brazilian martial arts and then enjoys an ice-cold beverage in a celebration of Salvador's 466th birthday as a city. Leaving the metropolis of Salvador behind, Ryan moves further north up the coast only to get stuck in a monster sand dune before heading west and moving deeper in to the Amazon Basin. With the entrance into the Amazon region, Ryan says goodbye to the pavement and comes to terms with the legendary Amazonian mud. As the rain falls the mud makes any real progress nearly impossible and traffic jams and accidents begin to pile up as Ryan moves cautiously slow. Everything begins to get very difficult.