Ilha Grande Travel Blogs

Today we get up for another amazing breakfast, the weather looks good and its seems very nice out. We are going to do some snorkeling today at some more beach. WE all go down to the port and board a boat and go on a mini cruise in the water. THe tunes are playing and we are being served caprin…

KERRY - Ilha Grande is an Island between Rio and Sao Paulo which you have to catch a boat to, either from Angra dos Reis ( as we did) or Mangaratiba. The island is a protected area and there are no cars allowed on it, so the only way to get around it is to walk on…

Brazil... If u hav'nt been u need to go. The trip started in Ilah Grande wich is in island in the state of rio where there is no cars allowed, only boats. Than i stayed in rio surfing some of the beaches around the area before we headed to Sacuarema... A little surf village north of Rio. Than back to Rio

Greetings from Ilha Grande, Rio´s tranquil weekend escape.    That would be purely acurate if we weren´t part of the post-Carnaval herd, which we happily are.  At the bus station, we abruptly crossed from North American tourist world into the alterhemispheric backpacker world, whic…

What a lovely little place this is....from the hustle and bustle of Sao Paulo, this is perfect for kicking back and chill out. Got the ferry over from Angra Dois Reis with Dixie and Adam.  During the week the island is pretty quiet so we had good choice of accomodation - luckily…

First I want to let you know why I choose Ilha Grande. I love going to untouched places and Ilha Grande is just that. My trip started in Sao Paulo and we took the bus to Angra dos Reis, which by the way was the best bus drive I have experience. In the way there we met some people from Israel an…

Fri Dec 12th - We packed our bags and jumped on a bus heading up the coast. The weather had got really muggy and it was threatening to rain.  The bus was crazy packed full of tourists, which was wierd as we had hardly seen any other Westerners so far on our trip. We then took a ferry across t…

that was one of my most memorable trips of my whole brasil experince! well, i was on ilha grande with a nice group of people, i all met during my travel. we were not really blessed with the best weather there, but with lots of spirit we desided to take the challenge and to find out more about t…

Did some walking today.  Spent the morning looking at the shops in the town, then did the T1 circuit from the tourist map - a short, but picturesque walk around some of the old buildings of old Ilha Grande.  We sat on Praia Preta for an hour or so - this beach has a layer of black sand, a…

After a few days in Rio eight of us caught a minibus a couple of hours south west to Ilha Grande.  This was a great place to relax and soak up some rays.  We decided to save a few bucks by camping instead of staying in a hostel so our accommodation was only 15 R$ a night. Four out of the …

The last two days have been spent visiting the main beach and snorkel spots of the island. On Friday we went to Lopez-Mendez beach, a surfing beach that is rated one of the best in Brazil. Can´t argue against the verdict, it is very beautiful and isolated because you walk 20 minutes through the ju…

The world! Well 19% of it anyway

a 7 week jounrey through South America last year with GAP adentures

A fabulous 5 months of exploring the exotic continent, mostly unplanned!

Beautiful mountainous tropical Island and great recovery time from carnival. Took a boat cruise and walked to Lopez Mendez beach. Few tech difficulties on the boat on the way back and we had to thumb a tow.