Blogs from Ilha do Mel, Paraná, Brazil, South America

Ilha do Mel / Paraná, na Pousada das Meninas - Tudo o que Você precisa Saber! Pense em uma ilha linda, organizada, rústica, simples mas sofisticada. Pensou? Essa é uma ILHA DO MEL. Um lugar muito paranaense, com fácil acesso de barco, praias e muita história. Nesse post vou dar algumas dicas para a Ilha do Mel e ajudar você a conhecer mais esse lugar do sul. Nós fomos para o litoral, partindo de Curitiba , de carro, seguindo por estrada sentido Paranaguá e gastamos cerca de duas horas . A estrada estava boa e tranquila, mas tinha um trecho com obras e desvios, por isso não foi capaz de se comunicar, nem GPS e ficar atento às placas. Optam pelo porto de Pontal do ... read more

For all the beach bums out there, you´´ll be turning a darker shade of green when you read this. We have just finished exploring the southern parts of Brazil, and this is what we can say about it: Our first port of call was Florianopolis, or as all the locals call it, Floripa. There is really only one thing to do there and that is go to the beach. And once you have visited the beach, you move on to another beach. And then another. So, when it rains, issues arise (as you will read about later). As we cannot consider ourselves rotisserie kind of people (turning round and round to roast yourself evenly), we actually had to find something to do. We took off on a short hike over one big hill to a relatively ... read more

Currently on an island called Ilha Do Mel, 12 hours south west of Rio. Its raining so i thought i´d take 10 mins to blog about a VERY important experience i encountered in Rio that i forgot to mention in my Rio blog...and also to give Brazil some credit following my bashing about how bad the food can be here........... in Brazil they have pay per kilo restaurants! Now we´re talking.....one hungover day in Rio , Nat and i stumbled across a restaurant that we thought was all you can eat. As a massive fan of all you can eats (I kept Pizza Hut lunch buffet in business through my university years) there was no doubting it ws going to be good feed. But this wasnt just any buffet...its a smorgasboard of food amazingness! Steak, fish, ... read more

Honey Island with out my honey……………. Think of Brazil and instantly Rio De janerio and Amazon forest trips comes to mind however it has lots of other exotic destination to offer. Honey Island is one such example. It is known as Ilha Do Mel is local languae. ( Mel - Honey, Ilha - Island). Island is complete holiday destination with beach, backwaters, cave, fort and a lighthouse and mountains faraway makes it really exotic. Island is ecological retreat and cars and other vehicles are not allowed on the island which is reached only by water ways. Entry to island is limited to 500 people at once to limit the damage. One need not be Hollywood celebrity to enjoy the luxury of private island, if you go to Honely Island on off season, it would be give ... read more

Deuxieme halte, Ilha do mel. Pour ceux qui on une absence de vocabulaire dans leur lexique cerebral portugesh, signifie ile de miel. La premiere chose qui frappe (mis appart les gouttes de pluies) c est que le temps semble drolement prendre son temps. on se trouve une poussada (auberge) du cote de Novo Brazilia, simple et pas chere, que demander de plus. Les oiseaux sur l ile sont fantastiques, pas la moindre couleur de l arc-en-ciel n y est omise. On passe beaucoup de temps tete en l air. Ilha do mel offre une vue surprenante de jungle montagneuse plongeant dans l ocean. C est ici que l on rencontre Cantom, qui nous invite sur la plage pour faire un, vous l avez devine, un barbec. Un somptueux poisson qu il a peche lui meme au ... read more