Brazil
March 15th 2009 Sitting between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Paraty is a great place to 'get away from it all' and is our first stay in Brazil. This is one of the world's best preserved Portuguese colonial towns and is now World Heritage listed. The town was originally settled in 1531 on the opposite side of the river, but in the 17th century the Indians who lived on the current site were driven away and the tow
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