Blogs from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, South America - page 6

Paraty was, more or less, a perfect tourist town. Quiet small, with a pedestrianised and cobbled centre, and a large waterfront filled with boats offering tours of Paraty Bay. Arriving on a Saturday, I was surprised to find out how busy the town (my hostel included) was. Someone told me that it was essentially a bank holiday weekend for everyone in Sao Paulo as it was a special anniversary of the city’s foundation, so to celebrate this, a lot of middle class Paulistanos flocked to the nearby beaches. On Sunday it seemed to quieten down considerably. I only spent 2 nights in Paraty, but this was about right to explore the town, the quays, the beaches and the old fort which overlooks the town (built to guard against British pirates using canons bought from the British). ... read more

hi everyone, how is everything going back home? So things with us have been pretty good. I left off the last blog with us about to leave punta del diablo in Uruguay, on our way to florianopolis in brazil. And here we still sit in floripa, we just cant seem to leave this place, its sucked us right in hehe. We left Diablo on the 3rd March. We had decided to just try and wing it with our bus tickets to porto allegre. We were meant to leave on the 2nd, but ended up staying an extra night in diablo. We thought we would just get on the exact same bus 24 hours later, and pretend dumb, like it wasnt our fault the dates were screwed up haha. So we caught the bus from diablo to ... read more

Day 9 I left Ilha Grande at 12:30, arriving in Florianopolis via Sau Paulo 23 hours later, giving me my first experience of the serious lengths of travel required to see this amazing continent. I managed to get some sleep and it passed pretty quickly and relatively hassle free, although trying to buy a bus ticket in Sau Paulo had me sweating a bit…I really should learn the basic language…I‘m not enjoying being looked at as though I‘m an ignorant gringo traveller! I arrived in one piece, an encouraging first encounter considering I have many more bus trips to make during my stay in South America. Day 10 - 15 After checking into the Tucana hostel I went for a walk to the closest beach, Praia mole, which was pretty spectacular, even though the weather was ... read more

After 5 weeks in Buenos Aires and some cold weather, I was ready for sunshine and an increase in temperature! I left Buenos Aires on an overnight coach to Foz de Iguazu, the famouse waterfalls on the border to Brazil and Paraguay. The bus journey was actually very comfortable as the seats were nearly as a seat in the first class compartment in a plane! So I kind of arrived relaxed and with enough sleep in Port de Iguazu, where sun was shining and 25 C welcomed me, dropped off the luaggage in the hostel I stayed for the night and went off to see the falls together with 2 other girls, who were on the trip as well! It took about 45 minutes until we reached the entrance to the National Park and another 30 ... read more

et non, on a pas encore bouge de notre petite retraite en bord de mer...On profite toujours autant du soleil qui ne nous quitte plus depuis quelques jours et fait remonter la temperature tres agreablement. Au programme: barbecue, plage, surf et macrame....puis plein d'Antartica :D une petite biere locale, ma foi fort sympathique et qui a les gros aventage de venir par bouteille de 600ml pour un prix tres democratique. Comme d'habitude les photos vous en dirons plus...... read more