Thirteen-year-old student Raissa Pereira plays futsal, handball and does athletics at school. The last torchbearer in Barreirinhas, she was saluted with a Junina party, traditional celebrations typical to Maranhão.

Taking the Olympic Torch through one of the stunning lagoons of the Lençóis Maranhenses was 16-year-old Isak Costa. "I am sharing this moment with my family, friends and everyone. For me, that's the real Olympic spirit: love and sharing."

Jony Silva, environmental monitor at the National Park of Lençóis Maranhenses, is our seventh torchbearer today. "This paradise deserves the homage of a visit from the Olympic Torch," she says.

Inhabitants of Barreirinhas are preparing to greet the relay in style, before we head off into the dunes and lagoons of the national park of Lençóis Maranhenses.

After an emotional day in São Luís, the Olympic Torch Relay is on its way to Barreirinhas, where we will be discovering one of Brazil's most spectacular landscapes, the 'lençóis maranhenses'. Stay tuned!

Here's what awaits us later today. The National Park of Lençóis Maranhenses is at its best at this time of year, when rainfall creates oases, beaches and lagoons among the soaring dunes of this extraordinary landscape.