Blogs from Santa Catarina, Brazil, South America - page 10

I arrive in Florinopolis (or Floripa as the locals call it) at 8:30 am. At least this bus ride was much better than my bus ride up to Cusco (see my Cusco Entry). That was the ride from hell. It's very hot in Floripa, so, I decide to take a taxi to my hostel, Casa Brasil. The hostel is a small, family run hostel. The staff are really nice people. They tell me that two of the beaches are only half an hours walk or a 10 minute bus ride from the hostel. I decide to walk to the first beach (Mole) and don't put on sunscreen as I'm only planning to go for about 1 hour. It's a very nice sunny, hot day and the ocean breeze keeps the temperature down a bit. Mole is ... read more

So long bus journey from Parati, we didn´t bother with the sleeping tablets and by the time we arrived in the hostel I was like the walking dead. Luckily Eddie was awake enough to the thinking for us both. So this is a little coastal island off south brasil, the island is Santa Catarina and we stayed over the east coast in Lagoa De Conceicao, and we were there for 5 nights. Basically this was a few days of beaches and chilling out. We went to the following beaches....Praia De Mole, Gelehta, Barra De Lagoa. Then eddie decided we had enough lazing around and hauled me up over a cliff to visit Praia De Leiste. This was cool....look for the photos of this place. Walk wasn´t too bad (but when we kept cresting a hill to ... read more

So another heavy night on the beer, I think i fell into bed about 8am or something after skinny dipping in the lagoon on the walk home, all for a bet! We had to check out at 12 so we rushed around like crazy trying to get packed up! I went off to the cashpoint and to drop off laundry, then we came back to hostel, chilled and played heads and volleys! Good times! We had to get the bus for Iguacu at 7 so by the time 5 came i really needed to pull the finger out, collect washing and get the bus! After a mad hour trying to get sorted we got our taxi and headed to the bus stop. T... read more

Another good nights sleep, the only problem was that there was no ac in the hostel and 10 people in one room meant it was very hot! we headed off to the beach and rented surf boards. The day great, surf and sun all day. When we got back to the hostel we got showered, dressed and headed out for food before a big night out. The club that we went to was a taxi ride away near the beach, it looked like a shack but when we got inside there was a great atmosphere, live music and loads of people from our hostel. After loads of drinks we decided to go, on the way out some geezer offered us a lift. He had the coolest jeep i've ever seen. so 4 of us jumped in ... read more

Our first stop in Brazil was Florianopolis or Flori for short, a beautiful green island connected to mainland Brazil by bridge. We stayed in Backpackers Sharehouse which was a really cool hostel, overlooking Barra de Lagao beach. This place seemed to collect tired backpackers and the lads were calling a backpackers retirement home. The retired backpackers included Andrew Murphy and his mate Brady, Dave who should be completing his first novel any day now and Jay the mad looking Manc. The weather was not great here as it was overcast and rained alot so we didn't spend as much time on the beach as we would have liked. The days we did spend on the beach were passed surfing, swiming, body surfing in some monsterous waves and checking out the chicas. Nearby beach Praia Mole had ... read more